discerning an attack vs a spell

[crb]

Detecting an attack against you is pretty easy.

However detecting a spell cast against you is hard.

Whether it is an attack spell or a buff the gesture line is the same:

Billboy gestures at you.

So... you'd need to detect that lines, then detect the line immediately after, and see if it contains a CS vs TD roll.

I do not know how to do this. I could go from detecting the gesture to a waitfortimeout with 1 second or something. But that isn't 100%, it could result in false positives.

[SpiffyJr]

I'd probably do a double loop (matchtimeouts don't match regexes, right?). The second loop mimics a matchtimeout with a 1 second delay. If matchtimeouts do match regex's then you could cut out the second loop and use a matchtimeout instead.



loop {
line = get
if line =~ /someone cast something at me/
time = Time.now.to_i
loop {
line = get
if line =~ /some regex for cs/td/
echo 'they cast at me'
break;
end
break if Time.now.to_i - time > 1 # timeout after a second
}
end
}

[Tillmen]

If you don't want to use a timeout, you could turn on status_tags and use the prompt to end your search for a roll. I don't know if this code works. I didn't test it and I guessed some of the XML.



status_tags
while line = get
if line =~ /^(?:<pushbold\/>)?(An? )?<a.*?>(.*?)<\/a>(?:<popBold\/>)? gestures at you(?:\.|!)$/
caster = $2
if $1
caster_type = 'npc'
else
caster_type = 'pc'
end
while line = get
if line =~ /^<prompt/
break
elsif line =~ /^\s+(?:CS|AS)\:/
echo "#{caster} (#{caster_type}) attacked you.'
end
end
end
end