Timer based increment! - mIRC Discussion Forums

Hello once again guys!

Please go through the code below and advice me how to increment a parameter on a set interval of time.

Code:

 while %i &lt;= $nick(#,0,a) {
 .echo I am incrimenting after 6 seconds! %i
. timer 1 6 nexti }
alias nexti {
.inc %i 1 }

Whenever I tried, I end up with an infinite loop! which crashes my mIRC client.

Maybe if you tell us what exactly this is to accomplish? You cannot increment a variable used in a while loop outside that loop.

This particular part of the script will be used to issue MOTD of our channels to all regulars

Don't use a while loop. Just put the code inside the alias, and have the timer "self-call" the alias from inside it.

What about using /timer 1 6 inc %i 1???

The link you provided aint funtional, could you provide me a sample coding here?

Thanks

How about this?

Code:

alias test {
  if ( $1 &lt;= $nick(#,0,a) ) {
    echo -a I am incrimenting after 6 seconds! $1
    .timer 1 6 test $calc($1 + 1)
  }
}

Also you can break out of infinite loops using ctrl+break.

Thanks collective!
Since I had to complete the coding urgent, I kept on trying and somehow managed it with a rather lengthy coding. I am yet to try your code, which I will soon. I coded it as follows

Code:

 
menu status,channel {
.-
MsgThem
.Start:{
.set %c.counter 0
.timermsgdem 0 6 msgdem }
.-
.Stop:.timermsgdem off
}

alias msgdem {
.inc %c.counter 1
.set %cs.nick $nick(#,%c.counter)
.msg %cs.nick Welcome!
.halt
}

and it works...Thanks for the replies