Waitfor?

[Kaelozim]

Quick question. If I want a condition to persist throughout the script but allow the script to operate as normal while still looking for the condition how would I do that? From what I understand if I put something like:
<CODE>
respond "***WAITING FOR OFFER***"
waitfor(" offers you ")
respond "***After waitfor***"
</CODE>

It would pause indefinitely until it hears "offers you". What I'm trying to do is simply listen for an lnet message while the script is running so the client can inform me when this is his last box so I can clear him out of the line and move on to the next one. Any ideas?

[Bobmuhthol]

I don't write in Ruby so this is probably a poor workaround but what I used to do for that kind of situation is run scripts in parallel where one script simply sat and waited to give the other instructions, ie., the operating script has a check for a universal variable before continuing and the parallel script changes the value of that variable on command so that the operating script knows to stop.

[Kaelozim]

Ok thanks, one more question about waitfor. I have this line:

waitfor(" offers you ")

waiting for boxes to be offered but there is not check to see if what is being offered is indeed a box. So reading a bit about the API I've come up with

offermsg = waitfor(" offers you ")

and then an if statement to scan the results in offermsg to find { box | strongbox etc.. etc.. I'm pretty sure you can do this in a simple in-line evaluation. But I haven't been able to find an example within the scripts I have. Thanks.

[Anebriated]

I have code here you might be able to steal... http://forum.gsplayers.com/showthread.php?t=45309