egghelp/eggheads community Discussion of eggdrop bots, shell accounts and tcl scripts. 2002-10-07T07:36:39-04:00 https://forum.eggheads.org/app.php/feed/topic/2748 2002-10-07T07:36:39-04:00 2002-10-07T07:36:39-04:00 https://forum.eggheads.org/viewtopic.php?p=11766#p11766 <![CDATA[timer help..]]>
Tcl has a special meaning for commands within [] brackets.

A lot of commands, return data, and as suhc, this data needs some method or another, of being stored, or used in another command. THe goal of the [] brackets, it to allow this data return to take place.

Anything between [ and ] is called as a command, and is then replaced with the return value, on the fly (meaning, if the return value is different each time, so will the value being replaced).

Thus, if using

Code: 

proc mycommand {} {  return this}timer 180 [mycommand]
This is saying, run the code between the [], and replace it with the returned value. Thus, the command becomes

Code: 

timer 180 this
Thus, the [mycommand] is replaced instantly, and the command "this" is executed after 180 mins.

In your case, this is obviously wrong.

You should infact be using a plain old

Code: 

timer 180 mycommand
This would run the command "mycommand" after 180 mins.

Applying this to your script, in reality, you simply change the command so that the []'s are removed.

However, this does not solve your problems 100%.

You state that ".tcl timer 180 [blah]" didn't work. In that case, there is a problem witht he rest of your script anyway. Seeing as the []'s mean your script is run right away, it should have done a database update.

If it hasn't, then this neads looking intop itself.

Beyond that, once a timer has run it's course, it dies. IE, it's one off thing. And you will need to a create a newone, after it has completed it's cycle of 180 mins.

Statistics: Posted by ppslim — Mon Oct 07, 2002 7:36 am

]]> 2002-10-07T06:14:09-04:00 2002-10-07T06:14:09-04:00 https://forum.eggheads.org/viewtopic.php?p=11765#p11765 <![CDATA[timer help..]]> proc timecheck { } {
...
some code
..
}

it checks a database for something and msg's something to a nickname if it's found..

I wanna do this procedure every 3 hours so do I just add:
timer 180 [timecheck] in the eggdrop.conf ?

I tried .tcl timer 2 [timecheck] in the partyline to see if it does something but nothing appeared to work.. it did start a timer however and now I don't know how to stop it or how to view the timers that are running..

would really appreciate some help on this.. thx

Statistics: Posted by slashem — Mon Oct 07, 2002 6:14 am

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