Timer Toggle

Kresslack

How would one go about making a toggable tigger, which is turned on and off using an alias, such as TN | TF? Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

Misspelled titles make me cry.

Jonathin

Instead of having the timer run indefinitely, you could always use enable/disableTimer()

Alternatively, if you don't want to use a variable you can use isActive().

Example:

if isActive("timerName","timer") == 1 then  --1 because isActive returns as 0 or 1

  disableTimer("timerName")

  echo("timerName disabled!")

else

 enableTimer("timerName")

 echo("timerName enabled!")

end

Eld

Daeir said:

Does lua evaluate 0/1 as true/false like other C languages? A bit unrelated, but you should just be able to use isActive without the equals evaluation.

Lua evaluates false and nil as false and anything else (including 0) as true.

Iocun

Yeah. isActive() actually returns a count of active aliases/triggers/timers by that name, not a boolean value. It would return 2 if you had two timers by that name.

Jonathin

My bad. I don't have more than 1 of anything with a particular name, so it's always returned 0 or 1 for me. Good to know though.

Kresslack

Completely forgot about this, but thanks for all the advice. About to try it out.