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silenus · Voice Joined: 05 Jan 2008 Posts: 10

I have had trouble formulating a good subject line for this question, but it comes down to the fact that I must have a fundamental misunderstanding of binds. Can anyone explain to me please what I am doing wrong here? I have written two scripts (mychann.tcl and mychann_ops.tcl). As you might expect, mychann.tcl runs in #mychann and mychann_ops.tcl runs in #mychann_ops. The same bot is present in both channels.

The scripts do essentially the same thing and have a lot of procs in common, but they have different binds. mychann.tcl is bound to msg like this :

Papillon · Owner Joined: 15 Feb 2002 Posts: 724 Location: *.no

You are sort of answering your own question. There are indeed two different binds, but they are both bound to the same procedure, or to two different procedures called by the same name... this will always cause troubles.

get_message rename one of them and they will not interfere with eachother
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caesar · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 3:52 pm Post subject:

@silenus : post some code where you're stuck.

@Papillon Shocked

OMG! Are you the Papillon i know? Very Happy

Dude, where you've been all this time? Razz

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

Also, see:

http://forum.egghelp.org/viewtopic.php?t=12900

silenus · Voice Joined: 05 Jan 2008 Posts: 10

Thank-you all for prompt and helpful responses. After papillon replied I had tried changing the names of the procedures attached to binds, but I was still experiencing a problem with a global variable (same name in both scripts), and now I am having a further problem with another variable (also same name in both scripts). I have feeling that the dominoes will continue to fall as fixing one problem reveals another. I know that these scripts work separately, so the problem must be with their interaction, and it seems that I would be better spending my time learning about the namespaces to which willyw draws my attention than fiddling with names of procs and variables. For this reason caesar, I don't think it would help for me to take up your time by posting code here.

Thanks again - I will mark this "solved"

silenus · Voice Joined: 05 Jan 2008 Posts: 10

Just a short note about the outcome. After half an hour learning about namespaces my scripts now work together without any problems. Smile

Papillon · Owner Joined: 15 Feb 2002 Posts: 724 Location: *.no

@silenus: Good that you solved it. It is just to remember that when you name a global variable or procedure, that name is truly global in your bot. You may have a procedure in one script, but call it from another script. Namespaces helps solve this problem if used correctly Smile

@caesar: it is me ye, been studying and generally having a real life once more Smile

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silenus · Voice Joined: 05 Jan 2008 Posts: 10

@Papillon Yes. There are no bugs, only lessons. I am a very amateur programmer and had no clear idea of the way in which scripts work within the bot. I saw them as little packages, ring-fenced by the bind which calls them. I know better now.