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[3-33] · Voice Joined: 08 Aug 2009 Posts: 6

First, if i open this topic in wrong place, sorry, because its my first posting on this forum.

I have a problem,with my eggdrop. I am using a tcl script called "bottalk".The preformance of this script is that, when the bot is talked, by he`s nick name, should respond to the user. There is a few options, like this:

arfer · Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 8:27 am Post subject:

I don't see anything wrong with the bind statement. Certainly if the three with punctuation characters work, then the one without should be fine PROVIDING the first word of the channel text is the bot's primary nick followed by a space.

I would point out that the bot's current nick (as returned by $botnick) may be different than the bot's primary nick (as set in the .conf file and returned by $nick). If it so happened that the bot was using an alternative nick (maybe its primary nick was in use) at the time you tested the second bind, then the bind would not trigger if you used the bot's current nick ($botnick) as the first word of the channel text (the command for a PUB bind).

I think I would be tempted to change them all from $nick to $botnick. I think I would probably also do something to stress that any punctuation is not a part of the variable name, even though they did work without modification.

bind PUB - $botnick pub_dotalkz
bind PUB - ${botnick}; pub_dotalkz
bind PUB - ${botnick}: pub_dotalkz
bind PUB - ${botnick}, pub_dotalkz
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[3-33] · Voice Joined: 08 Aug 2009 Posts: 6

Tnx for trying to help me , but it still doesnt work, i try ur advice, also i`v try this version:

arfer · Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 10:14 am Post subject:

The problem must be elsewhere in the script you have downloaded. In order to test, I made the following very simple script.

nml375 · Revered One Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 2857

One thing you have to keep in mind, is that using $botnick will not alter the binding as the nickname changes. In fact, I'm not sure $botnick would contain anything but the empty string ("") during startup, as your bot would not yet have established a connection to any irc servers yet.

If you'd like it to respond to the "current" nickname, regardless of what nicknames was used earlier, you'd have to use the pubm binding with a match-all mask (*), and then within the triggered proc test the spoken text against $::botnick.

As for why appending a , to the nickname won't work, I'll have to dig further into the code to check that...
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arfer · Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 12:57 pm Post subject:

Yes thats a good point. It is probably why the author chose $nick rather than $botnick in the first place. If I was coding this, there is no doubt I would have done as you suggested and used a PUBM bind.
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speechles · Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 1:09 pm Post subject:

nml375 · Revered One Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 2857

speechles,
wouldn't it be better to use ${::botnick} than ${::nick}?

Also, mind if I ask why you create $test as a single-item list, as you only access it using "lindex $test 0" all throughout the script anyway?
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speechles · Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 1:23 pm Post subject:

nml375 · Revered One Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 2857

There's no risk of double evaluation with regsub, the exp argument will never be passed to a second interpreter. A common practise with any regular expression (in tcl), is to encapsulate them with {} rather than "", since they specifically make use of [] as an integral part (same would apply to some glob-style pattern/matching as well, although it's not as common).

However, doing something like this:

arfer · Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 3:25 pm Post subject:

This should work. A little simpler.

[3-33] · Voice Joined: 08 Aug 2009 Posts: 6

arfer · Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 3:56 pm Post subject:

I'm sorry [3-33] but if you have been reading this thread, then you would know that using $botnick in a bind (which executes before the bot comes online) will probably not work. I was wrong.

My little test script was manually loaded via a partyline tcl command AFTER the bot was online.

However, it would be fair to say that none of us have managed to address your problem. We cannot see from what you have posted why $nick, $nick; and $nick: should work but not $nick alone. I doubt that it is your eggdrop, though it could be something in the script that we are unaware of.
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speechles · Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 5:06 pm Post subject:

arfer · Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 5:44 pm Post subject:

I downloaded bottalk.tcl from this site. After loading the script and restarting I was able to get my bot to respond to $nick, $nick; $nick: AND $nick alone.

[22:41] <@arfer> Osmosis
[22:41] <@osmosis> arfer: What? ×åãî íàäî ?
[22:41] <@arfer> osmosis
[22:41] <@osmosis> arfer: What? ×åãî íàäî ?
[22:42] <@arfer> osmosis, hello
[22:42] <@osmosis> arfer: Ïèâî åñòü ?
[22:42] <@arfer> Osmosis: hello
[22:42] <@osmosis> arfer: Ñêîê ãîäèêîâ òåáå ?
[22:42] <@arfer> Osmosis; what are you doing?
[22:42] <@osmosis> arfer: hello

I don't have a clue what the original poster did to break it.
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