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Gewan · Voice Joined: 25 Dec 2010 Posts: 27

Hi guys!

This is my first time posting. I admit, I don't know anything about TCL so I couldn't write the simplest script how badly I ever wanted to. Now, nevertheless, I have this request for a function. I have seen several !idle scripts that simply keeps track on the particular user's idle time on specified channel (where the eggdrop must obviously be on).

However, I'm looking for a much easier function. I'm simply looking for eggdrop to grep the idle time that is reported by '/whois <nick <nick>' (twice, if users are on different servers on network). I.e. how long the user has been idle on the server as such. Do you get my deal here?

In my desired script, I would be to type in a channel:
<Gewan> !idle Ajnag

This would then give something say like:
<Eggdrop> Ajnag has been idle for 0 days 0 hours 41 mins 32 secs [signon: Sat Dec 25 04:52:53 2010]

Real simple, see?
Would be really awesome if any of you guys who have experience in TCL scripting could write this script and throw me an Pastebin URL or something. Hopefully, it would not require more than approx. 50 lines of code, perhaps much less. Like I said, my TCL experience is NULL. Nonetheless, I would be thrilled if someone had the time and will to help me out here, hehe.

Ty in adv~
Regards~

willyw · Revered One Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 1175

Anahel · Halfop Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 48 Location: Dom!

hmm, it wouldn't work properly in network with more than 1 server, as in most cases "whois" will display sigon/idle time only for people who are on server you both are

Trixar_za · Op Joined: 18 Nov 2009 Posts: 143 Location: South Africa

Gewan · Voice Joined: 25 Dec 2010 Posts: 27

First off, thank you _a lot_ willyw, much(!) appreciated.
I have now tested the script. Something's a bit weird though.
When I pull '!idle nicknotonchannel' it returns the perfect string set:

<@Eggdrop> Rapidboy has been idle 2 hours 13 minutes 22 seconds [signon Sun Dec 26 12:17:20 2010]

Also, when I pull '!idle offlinenick' I get:

<@Eggdrop> "No such server"

Will probably define it to something like "<nick> is not online", but function (the important) is flawless. Neat.

However, when I drop '!idle nickONchannel', then I will not get anything in return. When I look in the Eggdrop console, I see the following:

[15:18] Tcl error [watch:402]: unmatched open brace in list

Any ideas?
Anything would be of interest.
I'm really thankful! Smile

speechles · Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 10:46 am Post subject:

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speechles · Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 12:04 pm Post subject:

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Gewan · Voice Joined: 25 Dec 2010 Posts: 27

Hi again guys!

Very much thanks to willyw & speechles; magnificent work!

Script now works flawless. Oh, you wanna know something funny? Check this out. At first it was failing -- what seemed -- intermittent (only from time to time), and I couldn't see the picture clearly, you feel me? I had made no modifications at the script, other than the correction speechles suggested. Now, the eggdrop console didn't bring up any errors, but !idle checks gave me "No such server". And hey, you wanna know what gave me the weird idea about "It seems to work but not with users who are in eggdrop's channel"..? Hehe, now comes the fun part. I'm an irssi user, and -- per default -- irssi's auto-completion adds a blank space after nicknames, so I ended up with string '!idle LameIRCer ' instead of '!idle LameIRCer'; notice the lack of blank space in the last example. This was -- of course -- causing the "Not found" return.

Now, after executing !idle strings without the ending blank space, script works _flawlessly_. Would it be much pain (an additional 50 lines of code or so*) to add so that script will except/omit any blank space, since no IRCd (that I know of) supports multi-word nicknames, such feature couldn't cause any harm.

However, it's "surplus" and really not essential. When triggering the script as it's ment to be '!idle <nick>' it works flawlessly, and it's really not that much pain for the irssi end-user to hit backspace once after auto-completion has kicked in, hehe.

Again. Thanks _a lot_ for this brilliant script. IMHO, you guys should post it on the official eggdrop script page. Me and my friends had the idea that this would be a neat feature for our channel, but after Googling for ~10h all I found was several idle scripts, but all those only kept internal track on users on particular channels etc, i.e. not what I was looking for. This one is minimalistic yet pure and brilliant. Will be used on a daily basis in our little group of fellows. You did great! Smile

Cheers!

willyw · Revered One Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 1175

Gewan · Voice Joined: 25 Dec 2010 Posts: 27

Oh man. I love this community. Script now runs _flawless_ from point A to Z.
I'm _so_ archiving it, since I'll probably be formatting disks and/or switching eggdrop hosting at least at some time.
And by then I will (probably) have lost track of this thread completely, and Google may not carry me here at the simplest search term, hehe.

Cheers, and again, many thanks!

Gewan · Voice Joined: 25 Dec 2010 Posts: 27

The script has served me and friends with perfection for the last months. Now, it seems I have found the very first bug. Check this out:

<@Gewan> !i shroomill
<@Eggdrop> shroomill has been idle 1 hour 40 minutes 52 seconds [signon Thu Feb 17 11:22:36 2011]
<@Gewan> !i davVE^BARCA
<@Eggdrop> davVE^BARCA has been idle 17 hours 25 minutes [signon Tue Feb 15 21:47:15 2011]
<@Gewan> !i iCC0\xD^DASS
<@Eggdrop> "No such server"

Of course, iCC0\tM^DASS is indeed in the channel. My spontaneous guess tells me that the backslash is what's messing the script's parse. What do you guys think? Suggestions? Anyone care to join for a simple fix? Wink

Ty in advance~
Regards~