Solved (Solved) Delay for talkaction #Lua

[Blackheart OT]

Hello Otland community,

I've spent a couple hours trying to find a thread that could explain this at the level of a beginner in lua with previous programming knowledge in Java and Matlab, and I have failed, so I resort to asking the community.

I'm trying to prevent abuse of the talkaction system on my server. I would like to set up a delay before which a player cannot submit the same talkaction twice.

Ill show you what I have so far; its pretty bad; I'm sorry.

function onSay(cid, words, param, channel)
    local storage = 6707
    local delaytime = 2 * 60 * 1000 -- 2 minutes

    local condition = createCreatureCondition(cid, CONDITION_EXHAUST)
    condition:setConditionParam(CONDITION_PARAM_TICKS, delaytime)

    if not getCreatureCondition(cid, CONDITION_EXHAUST) then
        -- Do talkaction
    end
    return true
end

What I was trying to do with above code was create a toggle that would go false once ticks had occurred, and reset when you called getCreatureCondition. Honestly, I'm sort of making that up because I cant find any documentation for these functions anywhere on the internet. I only found a list of the functions in the script tutorial section of this website.

Perhaps the above strategy is incorrect and I have to reset the timer each time? (I.e. create an else for the if loop where I reset counter.)

I am running TFS 1.1, and the error message is that createCreatureCondition can only be used while first loading the script. Please let me know if I left out any crucial information.

I sincerely appreciate your help,

Mike

 

[Limos]

Which server do you use? You can look at potion scripts for example how to do it.
Add the condition above function onSay.

 

[Blackheart OT]

Which server do you use? You can look at potion scripts for example how to do it.
Add the condition above function onSay.

Hello Limos,

Thank you for answering. I added the server and error message to my original post. Could this be caused by the fact that I am creating the condition inside the function, and not the script?

-Mike

 

[Blackheart OT]

I have solved the problem using Limos' insight. The following is the code solution for anyone that might have a similar problem:

local delaytime = 2 * 60 * 1000 -- 2 minutes

local exhaust = Condition(CONDITION_EXHAUST)
exhaust:setParameter(CONDITION_PARAM_TICKS, delaytime)

function onSay(cid, words, param, channel)
    local player = Player(cid)
       
    if player:getCondition(CONDITION_EXHAUST) then
        -- send exhaust message
        return true
    end

    player:addCondition(exhaust)
    -- do talkaction
    return true
end