mirc script question
reddit / irc

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Jinjubei · 2015-01-16 16:34

I was just wondering if there is a way to have a script only run once
every X amount of time.

e.g. when someone types something into chat script echos what they say
but will only do this action once every 5 minutes or so.

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FiendKing04 · 2015-01-16 20:12

Yes, I'm pretty sure it's set using timers, but not sure exactly what.
Sorry I couldn't be more helpful, I only know it's possible because
I've seen something almost exactly like it before.

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[deleted] · 2015-01-16 21:11

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Jinjubei · 2015-01-16 21:14

I may be wrong on how timers work because i've seen the
    /timer X Y
command but I thought that was just for setting a delay.

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Nicd · 2015-01-16 22:59

When running the script, set a variable that is unset after 5 seconds.
It's a flag on the variable set command IIRC.

Then when the script is triggered again, check if the variable exists
and if it does, don't run the rest of the script.

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damiankw · 2015-01-17 00:18

This is how I'd do it.

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tavaryn · 2015-01-17 16:21

In case you haven't found it on Google, you can use the /set command
to set a variable that self-deletes in a given amount of seconds. For
example:

    set -u300 %scriptTimer 1

will set %scriptTimer to 1, and it will expire in 300 seconds (5
minutes).

To check this, you can use an if statement.

    on *:TEXT:!myscript:#yourChannel:{
        if (%scriptTimer != 1) {
            echo This script has not been triggered in the past 5
minutes.
            set -u300 %scriptTimer 1
        }
    }

edit: dumb mistake

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Jinjubei · 2015-01-18 21:07

> on *:TEXT:!myscript:#yourChannel:{
>     if (%scriptTimer != 1) {
>         echo This script has not been triggered in the past 5
minutes.
>         set %scriptTimer -u300 1
>     }
> }

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but I have made a minor change to
this code to be
    on \*:TEXT:!test:\*:{
      if (%scriptTimer != 1) {
        echo This script has not been triggered in the past 5 minutes.
        set %scriptTimer -u300 1
      }
    }
and it doesn't seem to fix anything the "this script has not been
triggered" text fires every time.

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tavaryn · 2015-01-18 22:49

Derp. I hadn't had my coffee when I posted that. Line 4 should read as
follows:

    set -u300 %scriptTimer 1

Flags for a command always preceed other arguments.

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Jinjubei · 2015-01-18 23:54

good to know thank you very much sir