dummy events

[turin]

It would be nice if you could trigger events by WML... its somewhat hard to explain, so I'll give an example.

You want an event to fire if someone moves somewhere OR you kill someone. This is currently possible, but in a hacky and long-winded way. With this feature, you could:

(pseudocode)

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[event]
name=moveto
   [filter]
   blah blah blah
   [/filter]
   [trigger_event]
   name=ithappens
   [/trigger_event]
[/event]
[event]
name=die
   [filter]
   blah blah blah
   [/filter]
   [trigger_event]
   name=ithappens
   [/trigger_event]
[/event]
[event]
name=ithappens
   blah blah blah
[/event]

It would be really useful to either have this, or have an event triggerable in multiple ways (so, [event] name=moveto,die), and this way seems more possible.

[scott]

Make a macro.

[turin]

Make a macro.

Yeah, but that takes more code and slows down the processor.

[scott]

Make a macro.

Yeah, but that takes more code and slows down the processor.

Correction: it takes more WML but less code and slows down the preprocessor. I'm all for extending WML to provide new functionality. Either way you have to make 2 events. The idea where name= takes a list is intriguing, but there would be problems where the filters, filter seconds, unit, second unit, x1,y1, and x2,y2 have conflicting meanings.

[turin]

Correction: it takes more WML but less code and slows down the preprocessor. I'm all for extending WML to provide new functionality. Either way you have to make 2 events. The idea where name= takes a list is intriguing, but there would be problems where the filters, filter seconds, unit, second unit, x1,y1, and x2,y2 have conflicting meanings.

Err, right. Anyway, just a suggstion for if a coder wants to implement it. I thought of it while coding a scenario and finding it really frustrating to have to duplicate hundreds of lines of WML (I have a macro-phobia, so I didn't use any).

[scott]

(I have a macro-phobia, so I didn't use any).

I noticed. I'm a macrophiliac.

[Cuyo Quiz]

*stops in his stroll*

You guys and your funky New Age diets.

*resumes strolling*