array of timers

[40oz] · Post by **[40oz]** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 5:38 am

Is there a way to make an ARRAY of TIMERS.

Here's my thought process:

Say I want to keep track of whether or not a certain person should still have Supernal Elixer on. I have a 6 slot array of timers... Each timer is at 0 if the person doesn't have supernal elixer on, or is > 0 if they do.

This way I can use the following psuedo code:

if groupmember(health) < 70 && groupmember(health) > 30
if elixerarray[groupmember(number)] == 0 cast Supernal Elixer
else if groupmember(health <= 30
cast supernal remedy
end if

or something to that effect. this way the timers always correlate to the group number the person is in the array. otherwise I gotta keep 6 timers defined globally like "ElixTimer1" so i can use "ElixTimer@GrpMember" or something.

Thoughts, ideas?

(PS if you can't tell, I'm doing a huge overhaul on my healing macros, this is just some base groundwork i'm thinking about)

OldNecro · Post by **OldNecro** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 4:19 pm

Bumping this to see if anyone ever thought of a way to do this, rather than start my own thread about it.... heh

wassup · Post by **wassup** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 4:26 pm

To my knowledge, you can't make an array of timers, or an array of arrays for that matter.

ml2517 · Post by **ml2517** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 4:39 pm

Read autodebuff.mac. You don't set a bunch of timers, but you track it based on a timestamp stored in an array compared to the current timestamp.

So yes, its sort of doable.

I also requested, from Lax, some sort of general purpose counter that starts timing up second by second from the time you launch MQ. I'm not sure if he has had time to look at it. With this you could do something similar to what I am doing now, but it would take alot less cpu.

vzfef · Post by **vzfef** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 5:43 am

What you really need is the UNIX timestamp, which is essentially an integer of the seconds since 1-1-1970. I proposed a patch, but it never got into CVS -- maybe because of the MQ2Data stuff

Lax · Post by **Lax** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 6:14 am

unix timestamp shimestamp.

${Time.SecondsSinceMidnight}

Resets every night at midnight but whatever. Do you want an arbitrary number that represents time in milliseconds?

ml2517 · Post by **ml2517** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 7:04 am

I'd like an arbitrary number that starts counting upward from the first moment that Macroquest gets attached to EQ.

Milliseconds would be best, but please have it be able to use members of .Seconds .Minutes etc.

This is going to be the best case scenario for my uses.

vzfef · Post by **vzfef** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 10:41 am

Lax wrote:unix timestamp shimestamp.

${Time.SecondsSinceMidnight}
Resets every night at midnight but whatever.

Exactly that is the reason why the AutoDebuff Script will go frenzy at midnight: Every tracked mob in the arrays will have a timestamp value higher than 0, which is, uhm, exactly the number of seconds since midnight. Well, some people tend to play around midnight...

ml2517 · Post by **ml2517** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 12:06 pm

Yeah this is a known issue and there really hasn't been anything I could do about it until I get something like what I am asking for. Hopefully we'll have it in the next zip?

Lax · Post by **Lax** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 2:20 pm

int macroquest.Running: Running time of current MQ2 session, in milliseconds

next zip

ml2517 · Post by **ml2517** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 2:28 pm

Yay!

dok · Post by **dok** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 3:39 pm

I use ${Macro.RunTime} myself to keep track of time elapsed. it returns the seconds the macro has been running. Unless using an ini file to store the timers, this works just as good as any propper timestamp for tracking time.

ml2517 · Post by **ml2517** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 3:46 pm

How the hell did I miss that heh.