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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,158 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #15 on Tue 15 Apr 2025 01:44 AM (UTC)
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Quote:

total_seconds = cycles * 41


Based on that, there are 41 seconds to a cycle, not 1800.

Maybe the earlier message refers to game time, not real time.

Try changing 1800 to 41.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Lilac   (34 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #16 on Wed 16 Apr 2025 01:17 PM (UTC)

Amended on Wed 16 Apr 2025 01:19 PM (UTC) by Lilac

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Fantastic, that change seems to be better reflective of the time frame. Thank you so much for your effort and patience on this one, I can't tell you how much I appreciate it.


So this script counts down on the hour? Is it possible to have it refresh on the half hour?

In a totally perfect would I'd like it to update in real time (with every tick that passes) but I don't know if that's unreasonable or not.

I want to be able to monitor it and catch the spell before it falls, but if the last real notification is one whole hour before, that's cumbersome.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,158 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #17 on Wed 16 Apr 2025 08:50 PM (UTC)

Amended on Wed 16 Apr 2025 08:56 PM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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It updates internally every second, however the display is rounded.

For example, if your cooldown is in 4 hours you don’t really care if it is 4 hours and 15 seconds do you?

The display works like this:

Over a day

Displays: 3d, 2d, 1d, etc.

Less than a day but more than an hour

Displays: 23h, 22h, 21h etc.

Less than an hour but more than a minute

Displays: 59m, 58m, 57m etc.

Less than a minute

Displays: 59s, 58s, 57s etc.

You could conceivably make the display change colour when time is almost up, for example change:

-- add the text
    WindowText (win, font_id, contents, MARGIN / 2, MARGIN / 2, 0, 0, ColourNameToRGB ("black"))

to:

    color = "black"
    if details.cooldown and details.cooldown < 60 and details.cooldown > 0 then
      color = "darkred"
    end -- if soon
    -- add the text
    WindowText (win, font_id, contents, MARGIN / 2, MARGIN / 2, 0, 0, color)
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Lilac   (34 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #18 on Wed 16 Apr 2025 09:40 PM (UTC)

Amended on Wed 16 Apr 2025 09:41 PM (UTC) by Lilac

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Nick Gammon said:

It updates internally every second, however the display is rounded.

For example, if your cooldown is in 4 hours you don't really care if it is 4 hours and 15 seconds do you?



No, but I was thinking counting down the timer cycles in real time; so ticking down the cycles on the display, instead of the hour mark.

39 cycles, 38 cycles, so on.


I've also made note that it will ping other things (my MUD has random affects, which is fine to show), but the box doesn't disappear like it's supposed to when they're over, even if you type "affects" again and they're no longer in there.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,158 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #19 on Thu 17 Apr 2025 05:09 AM (UTC)
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As I mentioned on the page about the plugin you can delete the box.

https://www.gammon.com.au/forum/?id=15238&page=999


CallPlugin ("2f103c42b3356ee1bcac384b" , "RemoveWindow" , "quest")


You could amend that plugin to do the RemoveWindow function call whenever the time drops below zero.

As for the count-down, you could amend it to show cycles by dividing the number of seconds by 41, which would be the number of cycles.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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