Need a randomizing script for HexChat
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MiddayHobo · 2015-02-23 09:52

I need what seems like a simple (yet impossibly hard when it comes to
my, nonexistent, scripting skills) script to use during online RPG
sessions instead of dice rolling. For HexChat, so it should be written
either in Perl or Python.

Here's my idea how it should work: you enter some command like !random
or something, followed by a number from the range 0-100, which would
mean the probability of success in %, then the script would randomize
(basing on that probability) the outcome and give an answer if you
succeeded or not.

Examples:

!random 74

The outcome of your action is:

Success!

!random 12

The outcome of your action is:

Failure...

!random 100

The outcome of your action is:

Success! (always)

It would increase mine (or perhaps not only mine) Game-Related Quality
of Life immensely, so if anyone out there likes to help thine
neighbour (in this case - me) for whatever reason, I'd be forever
thankful.

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caffeinedrinker · 2015-02-24 00:49

https://docs.python.org/2/library/random.html
http://anh.cs.luc.edu/python/hands-on/3.1/handsonHtml/print1.html
http://hexchat.readthedocs.org/en/latest/script_python.html

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MiddayHobo · 2015-02-24 10:30

Thank you!

Now there only remains the part where you tell me which functions to
use and in what order.

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caffeinedrinker · 2015-02-24 15:49

i suggest you find a really simple plugin template and start
programming ;) ... im not going to write the code for you but if you
get stuck ill help you out ;)

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MiddayHobo · 2015-02-24 21:11

I got stuck! For example, I got this line of code in Python:

    hexchat.prnt(text1 + word[1] + text2 + "\n\002\00303SUCCESS")

But it turned out that it only displays this line of text locally. The
proper command to say something visible on the channel is:

    hexchat.command("say <insert text here>")

But then I don't know how to put variables "text1", "word[1]" and
"text2" in there :( Help?

EDIT: I figured out how to insert variables and now I have one last
problem. I don't know how to use line breaks properly, because when I
put \n in there, it indeed does start a new line, but that second one
is only displayed locally. I don't know if I explained it clearly, so
here it is:

    hexchat.command("say blahblah\nblahblah")

displays this way:

    <nickname> blahblah
               blahblah

Other users don't see that second line. I tried using other variations
like "blahblah\nsay blahblah", "blahblah\n\say blahblah" but nothing
seems to work. Any ideas?

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caffeinedrinker · 2015-02-24 22:57

hmmmm i think i'd need to see the rest of your code to help ... but
well done man ;)
have you tried hexchat.command("say blahblah1111")
hexchat.command("say blahblah2222") ?
that would display 2 lines of text ??

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MiddayHobo · 2015-02-24 23:25

Tried that before, invalid syntax error.

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caffeinedrinker · 2015-02-25 04:28

hmmmm give me a few days and ill have a look at it for you ;)

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caffeinedrinker · 2015-02-25 21:01

http://pastebin.com/g9KnPVep enjoy ;) (just rolls a dice but you can
mod it to what you need ;) )