PircBot: Using /me?
reddit / irc

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royalot2002 · 2016-04-20 21:39

I already have a thing set up so that when someone types, "!hello", my
bot responds with "Hello!". However, I want to make it so that when a
user types in "!slap (user)" that my bot slaps the user. How would I
go about doing this?

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rOOb85 · 2016-04-21 03:06

Pircbot is a awesome framework to play with. Make sure to check out
their java docs as they provide a lot of useful info
http://www.jibble.org/javadocs/pircbot/index.html you will most likely
be most interested in all the on* and send* methods.

To answer your question you will need to "listen" for the trigger in
the onMessage() method then send a "notice" to the channel. Pic it may
even have a sendAction() method as well. So in pseudo code: inside the
onMessage() listen for !slap nickname then sendNotice(channel, "!slaps
" + message.subString(5)).

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m1ss1ontomars2k4 · 2016-04-21 07:33

Almost all of that information is stuff OP already knows, seeing as he
already has his bot responding to !hello command. OP wants to know how
to do a /me action specifically, which is sendAction.

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royalot2002 · 2016-04-21 19:17

Thank you so much! This will work for now, but however, I did want to
make it look like in the /me format, as posted by the user below. How
would I do this with sendAction and make it a /me?

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rOOb85 · 2016-04-21 19:37

No problem. It's been a long time since I've messed with IRC, but IIRC
/me is just a notice to the channel? Like sendNotice(channel, "slaps "
+ message.subString(5)). If it's not just check out the javadocs I
linked in my original answer.
Such as:
You are using sendMessage(String target, String message) already.
Notice the two parameters it requires? target is either a user or
channel and the message is whatever you want it to say. Now check out
the javadocs for sendAction(): sendAction(String target, String
action). It takes pretty much the same thing, a target and a action.
So you could do sendAction(channel, "slaps " + message.subString(5)).

If you are new to java and programming in general I highly suggest
taking a few minutes and check out all the methods they offer.
Hopefully this makes sense and you can put the pieces together.

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royalot2002 · 2016-04-21 22:47

Thank you so much! I'm very new to PircBot, and to Java as a whole, so
you really helped me. I can't thank you enough! :D

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rOOb85 · 2016-04-22 00:51

No problem! I used to hang out on IRC a lot when I was learning java
and pircbot was the perfect project to get me motivated to code.