GetTriggerInfo
Script function world.GetTriggerInfo Read about scripting Type Method Summary Gets details about a named trigger Prototype `VARIANT GetTriggerInfo(BSTR TriggerName, short InfoType);` View list of data type meanings Description `Gets details about the specified trigger. You can obtain one of 36 "types" of information about the trigger by specifying an "InfoType". The possible InfoTypes are: 1: What to match on (string) 2: What to send (string) 3: Sound to play (string) 4: Script procedure name (string) 5: Omit from log (boolean) 6: Omit from output (boolean) 7: Keep evaluating (boolean) 8: Enabled (boolean) 9: Regular expression (boolean) 10: Ignore case (boolean) 11: Repeat on same line (boolean) 12: Play sound if inactive (boolean) 13: Expand variables (boolean) 14: Which wildcard to send to clipboard (short) 15: Send to - see below (short) 16: Sequence (short) 17: Match on (colour/style) (short) 18: Change to style (short) 19: Change to colour (short) 20: Invocation count (long) 21: Times matched (long) 22: Date/time trigger last matched (date) 23: 'temporary' flag (boolean) 24: Trigger was included from an include file (boolean) 25: Make wildcards lower case flag (boolean) 26: Group name (string) 27: Variable name (string) 28: User option value (long) 29: Other colour foreground colour value (long) 30: Other colour backgroundground colour value (long) 31: Number of matches to regular expression (most recent match) (long) 32: The string we matched against (last trigger text matched against) (string) 33: Executing-script flag (boolean) 34: Script is valid flag (boolean) 35: Error number from PCRE when evaluating last match (long), zero if none 36: 'one shot' flag (boolean) 101: Wildcard %1 from last time it matched 102: Wildcard %2 from last time it matched 103: Wildcard %3 from last time it matched 104: Wildcard %4 from last time it matched 105: Wildcard %5 from last time it matched 106: Wildcard %6 from last time it matched 107: Wildcard %7 from last time it matched 108: Wildcard %8 from last time it matched 109: Wildcard %9 from last time it matched 110: Wildcard %0 from last time it matched Other wildcards can be extracted by using GetTriggerWildcard. The word in brackets indicates the "type" of data returned. String: a character string (eg. "north") Boolean: TRUE or FALSE Short: a 16-bit number Long: a 32-bit number The field "send to" indicates where the trigger response (item 2) gets sent: 0: World 1: Command window 2: Output window 3: Status line 4: Notepad (new) 5: Notepad (append) 6: Log File 7: Notepad (replace) 8: Command queue 9: Send To Variable 10: Execute (re-parse as command) 11: Speedwalk (send text is speedwalk, queue it) 12: Script (send to script engine) 13: Immediate (send to world in front of speedwalk queue) 14: Script - after omit (send to script engine, after omitting matching line from output) The field "invocation count" is a count of how many times the script routine was called. The field "times matched" is a count of how many times the trigger matched. These two would normally be the same, unless scripting was disabled, or there was an error in the script file. If the named trigger does not exist, EMPTY is returned. If the name given is invalid, NULL is returned. If the InfoType given is out of range, NULL is returned. (Use "IsEmpty" and "IsNull" to test for these possibilities). For a detailed description about the meanings of the fields, see AddTrigger. If GetTriggerInfo is called from within a plugin, the triggers for the current plugin are used, not the "global" MUSHclient triggers. If you want to information about a trigger in another plugin, or the global MUSHclient triggers, use "GetPluginTriggInfo".` VBscript example
    world.note world.gettriggerinfo ("monster", 2)
Jscript example
    /world.note(world.gettriggerinfo ("monster", 2));
PerlScript example
    /$world->note ($world->gettriggerinfo ("monster", 2));
Python example
    world.note(world.gettriggerinfo ("monster", 2))
Lua example
    Note (GetTriggerInfo ("monster", 2))
Lua notes
    Lua returns nil where applicable instead of an "empty variant" or "null variant".
Return value
    The specified information about the trigger, as described above.
    An EMPTY variant, if the trigger does not exist.
    A NULL variant if the trigger name is invalid.
    A NULL variant if the InfoType is not a valid type.
See Also ... Topics Aliases Default triggers/aliases/timers/macros/colours Getting started Groups Plugins Regular Expressions Timers Triggers Functions AddTrigger (Adds a trigger) AddTriggerEx (Adds a trigger - extended arguments) DeleteTemporaryTriggers (Deletes all temporary triggers) DeleteTrigger (Deletes a trigger) DeleteTriggerGroup (Deletes a group of triggers) EnableTrigger (Enables or disables a trigger) EnableTriggerGroup (Enables/disables a group of triggers) GetInfo (Gets information about the current world) GetPluginTriggerInfo (Gets details about a named trigger for a specified plugin) GetPluginTriggerList (Gets the list of triggers in a specified plugin) GetTrigger (Gets details about a named trigger) GetTriggerList (Gets the list of triggers) GetTriggerOption (Gets the value of a named trigger option) GetTriggerWildcard (Returns the contents of the specified wildcard for the named trigger) IsTrigger (Tests to see if a trigger exists) SetTriggerOption (Sets the value of a named trigger option) (Help topic: function=GetTriggerInfo) Documentation contents page