Chat targets entities

[ktccd]

Ok, I got some trouble here with my expression.
I use this code to find an entity I say in chat:

@name target ent chat
@outputs Target:entity
@persist Targ Strings:string
runOnTick(1)
if ((lastSpoke()==owner())&(lastSaid() =="!target_on")) {Targ = 1}
if ((lastSpoke()==owner())&(lastSaid() =="!target_off")) {Targ = 0}
if ((Targ == 1)&(owner():lastSaid()!="!target_on")|(owner():lastSaid()!="!target_off"))
{
    Strings=(owner():lastSaid())
    Target=(findPlayerByName(Strings))
}

This must be wrong, because the object just fly to a blank spot.
If needed, in case this is correct, I will post the code I use to move towards the target, but I think the problem is inside this expression.

[Wodden]

You don't need runOnTick, you need runOnChat & chatClk() cause' youre checking for chat commands. You also dont need all that "LastSpoke() == owner()" stuff, it's shorter to use "owner():lastSaid()". And for the 3rd if-statement you don't need to check if you last said !target_off, because Targ can't equal 1 if you've done so .
Well, that String and Target stuff, just combine it.

Use this:
[highlight=e2]@name Player Chat Target
@outputs Target:entity
@persist Targ

runOnChat(1)

if (first()) {Targ = 0}
if (chatClk() & owner():lastSaid() == "!target_on") {Targ = 1}
if (chatClk() & owner():lastSaid() == "!target_off") {Targ = 0}

if (chatClk() & Targ == 1 & owner():lastSaid() != "!target_on")
{
Target = findPlayerByName(owner():lastSaid())
}
[/highlight]
!target_on enables player name targeting, after entering this, enter the players name you want to target
!target_off disables player name targeting

[Liquos]

Just a little note, Wodden. I would suggest explaining what you changed, why you changed it, and what it does. It's just that ktccd might not understand what is going on in the code. He might be happy and say "yay, it works!" but he might not know exactly what chatclk() does, for example. Just a little thing that I used to do all the time too (and with which I had problems back when I was learning the basics of wiremod).

[Wodden]

Just a little note, Wadden. I would suggest explaining what you changed, why you changed it, and what it does. It's just that ktccd might not understand what is going on in the code. He might be happy and say "yay, it works!" but he might not know exactly what chatclk() does, for example. Just a little thing that I used to do all the time too (and with which I had problems back when I was learning the basics of wiremod).

:zing::spelling: My name is Wodden BTW i'm editing my post already...

[Liquos]

Oh sorry about that. It is kinda late and my spelling starts to deteriorate as it gets later and later.

[ktccd]

Wow, replies so fast ^^. I like this comunity already (just started gmod last week, though programing is not hard as long as I get an explaination what does what).

Now, yes an explanation is great, but I took someone elses code and removed the chatclk when nothing worked. I tested everything, from start to end in the code, tryign out what everything did. as a final resort I removed chatclk, and the command to turn the door on and off worked.

So IDK what chatclk does, it just messed up my code.
Also, the owner():lastSaid() is what I use in code I made myself, but I took the text-recogninser (spelling?) from someone elses suggestion.

[Wodden]

-snip- :v:

chatClk() equals 1 if something is entered in chat. Even with it my code worked for me :|. And for owner():lastSaid(), you checked twice if you said something. I've got anotner e2:
[highlight=e2]@name Player Chat Target
@outputs Target:entity
@persist Targ

runOnChat(1)

if (first()) {Targ = 0}

if (chatClk() & owner():lastSaid() == "!target") {
Targ = !Targ
if (Targ) { hint("Targeting enabled", 2) }
elseif (!Targ) { hint("Targeting disabled", 2) }
}

if (chatClk() & Targ == 1 & (owner():lastSaid() != "!target"))
{
Target = findPlayerByName(owner():lastSaid())
Targ = 0
hint("Target: " + Target:name() + "", 2)
}
[/highlight]

[Elmo the Emo Emperor]

chatClk() returns true if the execution was triggered by runOnChat(1)
You can also put an entity into the chatclk to check if the chat was by that entities. The thing you have to be careful of is giving it a non-player entiy as i assume this would give script error.
For example to check if the last person to talk was you, you would go.
runOnChat(1)
if(chatClk(owner())){ do stuff here }
if you do that you can assume that last said will equal what the owner last said, so you won't have to go owner():lastSaid() you can just go lastSaid()

[ktccd]

This is very good stuff ^^.
I used the last posted script there, and it works perfectly. I'll modify and use it for about all of my chat-commands. TY all ^^.

[Wodden]

Rep. And Credit mah?