EventMonitor does not work (but no error msg)

[mortimer]

Hello ppl,

before i start to explain my problem:
Thank all of you for this amazing project and the script-producing here.
I love this bot. It's kind a sandbox for old people to play with and gives a huge variety of possiblities
Thx for sharing!


now the main reason for this post as seen in the topic: I dont get any values from EventMonitor

I tried to build some userfunctions with usage of "EventMonitor" with EventMonitorStart(...) and EventMonitorCheck(...), here is one of this as blueprint:

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invplayername = "dummyname"

function AutoAcceptInvite()
    repeat
		local time, moreToCome, name = EventMonitorCheck("Pinv", "1")
		if time ~= nil then
			if name == invplayername then
				--Do some acceptinvite here
				cprintf(cli.yellow, "Accepted Party-Invite from %s at %d", name, os.time());
				yrest(100);
			end
        end
    until moreToCome ~= true
end

function startAutoAcceptInvite()
	unregisterTimer("autoaccept");
	printf("Auto Accept Party invite started\n");
	EventMonitorStart("Pinv", "PARTY_INVITE_REQUEST");
	registerTimer("autoaccept", secondsToTimer(5), AutoAcceptInvite);
end

which i start with "startAutoAcceptInvite()" in the "on load"-section of a WP-File. But i dont get the EventMonitor monitoring events.

In Detail the part

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local time, moreToCome, name = EventMonitorCheck("Pinv", "1")

gives back "nil" for time, moreToCome and name every time.

After my own userfunctions with Events didn't work, i tried the "eventmonitortest.xml" posted from lisa in another thread in this forum. With teh eventtester from lisa i also didn't get any events triggered and the time and other values stayed "nil".

My first suggestion was, that maybe some of my addons is causing this, so i cleaned the "interface/addon" folder and only left ingamefunctions there. This also did not solve the problem.

Then i tried some stuff with the CommandLine and checked the Messages i got from ingamefunctions\igf_events.lua:
Starting a Monitor = does not give back any error message (so it's working how it should i guess. additional: it produces an "igf_events:StartMonitor("usual stuff here") in one macro)
Starting a Monitor and stopping after also does not give any error mesage
Resuming a Monitor which is stopped triggers an error message (how it should do)
Checking a Monitor after Starting it also dont give back any error (additional: it produces an "igf_events:GetLogEvent("usual stuff here") in the macro where the StartMonitor was before)
But still only "nil"s for time, moretocome, ...

I tried a bit degguging and found that this code in igf_events.lua is true all the time:

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	-- Check if log entries exist
	if EventLog[monitorName] == nil then
		SendSystemChat("If you see this message there are no entries in EventLog") --this line put in by me
		return
	end

so the EventLogs are nil all the time. That means i get no logs at all!?

I read a lot of threads in this forum but could not find anything similar to my problem.
Now i dont know how to proceed.

Tested the EventMonitor-Stuff with:
MM 1.02, Rombot rev. 684 and rev. 685 on Windows 7, 64 bit.
Tested Events:
PARTY_INVITE_REQUEST, CHAT_MSG_SAY, CHAT_MSG_WHISPER

It would be really nice if somebody can help me or maybe has an idea about.

Best
Mort

[rock5]

That code worked for me. This is what I did.

1. Started 2 accounts and players, lets call them player1 and player2.
2. Edited your code by changing the name to "player2".
3. Started the commandline and attached it to the player1 game.
4. Entered the following to start the monitoring.

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Command> startAutoAcceptInvite()

5. In the player2 game I entered

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/script InviteByName("player1")

6. In the micromacro window I typed

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yrest(100)

It then printed out

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Accepted Party-Invite from player2 at 1324567888

In case you didn't know, I have to do a yrest because registered timers need to be yeilded to. micromacro is not a true multithreaded environment. In normal botting yrests should be happening all the time but if you create a loop somewhere that could last an indefinate length of time, you should make sure it has a yrest, even if it's just 1 millisecond. I don't know if this is what is happening to you or not.

Here is an image of the output. The reason there are 2 yrests is because I did one before the invite and one after.

[mortimer]

Thanks for your answer,

but well, i thought the code will work, thats not the problem. The problem is, that the EventMonitorCheck gives back nil, also if i am doing like you suggested.
Is there anything if have to do before EventMonitorStart ? Maybe some ingame-menu-thing or something else? I dont know why i only get nils.

[rock5]

If you did like I did, it should work. Is the bot otherwise working? Do other scripts work ok?

Maybe you have a spelling mistake in the name or you used an unusual character?

[mortimer]

yes i dit it exactly like you said. And it cannot be some misspelling because i also tested the Eventmonitor with "lisa"s "eventmonitortester.xml", which one works at other people. Thats why i am so confused. i checked everything twice and more. in the ingamefunctions/igs_events.lua within the GetLogEvent(...) the EventValues are never written and stay nil, also after some loop with yrests in it.

the last test i did with this modified "eventmonitortester" from lisa:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><waypoints>

	<onLoad>
	
	while (true) do
		loopval = 0
		start_time = os.time()
		printf("%d\n", start_time)
		EventMonitorStart("Test", "CHAT_MSG_SAY");
		sendMacro("SendChatMessage('LOL','SAY');")
		yrest(1000)	
		sendMacro("SendChatMessage('LOL','SAY');")
		yrest(100)
		sendMacro("SendChatMessage('LOL','SAY');")
		yrest(100)

		repeat
			yrest(100)
			local time, moreToCome, msg = EventMonitorCheck("Test", "1")
			yrest(100)
			if time == nil then
				printf("time is nil\n");
			else
				printf("time = %d\n", time);
			end
			if msg == nil then
				printf("msg is nil\n");
			else
				printf("msg = %s\n", msg);
			end
			if moreToCome == nil then
				printf("moreToCome is nil\n");
			else
				printf("moreToCome = %d\n", moreToCome);
			end
			printf("loopval "..loopval.." \n");
			loopval = loopval +1
		until loopval >= 30
		
		if time ~= nil then
			repeat
				if string.find(msg,"LOL") then
					printf("Event monitoring works fine.\n")
					player:sleep()
				end
			
			until moreToCome == false	
	
		end
	repeat
		printf("-")
	until os.time() >= (start_time + 5) -- add in a 5 second pause between tries.
	printf("\n")
	end

	</onLoad>

</waypoints>

Maybe it's because of the german client and MMs incompatibility with ä's ö's and ü's?

this was the output in MM(stopped after some loops by hand):

[mortimer]

sry for double-post but i forgot to say:
The bot is working well, only the EventMonitor does not work.

[lisa]

you do have an addon like d303fix to set the in game time right?

[mortimer]

oh dear, i thought i have something inside pbinfo for ingametime.
shame on me. i was to fast in the space-time-continuum and forgot to check the most basic fundamentals like the ingame-time. Now i feel as dumb as a post. Sry for your loss in time and thx, the d303fix solved the problem.

Now i'll stand in the corner until i repent for my dumbness

Best
Mort