need help with timed messeges - mIRC Discussion Forums

hello everyone. i am kind of new at mirc scripting. basically what i am trying to do is, when someone types for example !timertest, my bot will wait for the amount of time specified and then say messege "this is a test." here is what i have in my remotes.

on *:TEXT:*!timertest*:#: {
timer1 1 5 /msg # this is a test {
}
}

i cannot tell what i am doing wrong.

That works.
Are you by chance trying to trigger it yourself?
It would have to be an ON *:INPUT: command for you to trigger it.

nope, i'm using another script to try. and i know i would have to use INPUT to see it on the current script.

Code:

on *:TEXT:!timertest:#: {
/timer1 1 5 /msg # this is a test
}

As Tomao has shown you, you had extra pointless brackets.

Curly brackets or braces are used to open and close an event, alias or comparison. A timer is a command.

Code:

These are reasons to use curly brackets.
on *:EVENT:{ command }
alias test { command }
if ($1 = blah) { command }

As you can see below, commands are one line and can be nested within brackets.

Code:

/command param1 param2 param3
$command(param1,param2,param3)

/timername <N> <N> /command param1 param2 param3
/timername <N> <N> $command(param1,param2,param3)