Scripting

[Progressive_Rocker_1960]

Professor Phatty or any of the other LUA Gurus,

I have a question regarding LUA.

I am writing a Trigger Bot, just a simple remark and response. In order to conserve memory & processor is it better to incode the triggers and responses or would it be better to call a text file.

Will probably have end up with 10 triggers & Responses.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

[pHaTTy]

well it is better to be in same fle, as it using processor to read from text file, but there not mich difference for a triggerbot, and it doesnt take much ;)

-phatz

[klownietklowniet]

It doesn't take anything if you read the triggers from file at script startup in the main function and put them in an assosiative table.  Then it's a simple lookup when the trigger command is typed in main or in pm. No reading from file at that point....

[Progressive_Rocker_1960]

Thank you both very much that gives me a couple ideas. That is about what I had figured, especially with a small script like a trigger bot.  I will yell if I run into anything else.

[IceCoder]

is it faster to have a text in the code instead to read a text fil?

[plop]

Originally posted by IceCoder
is it faster to have a text in the code instead to read a text fil?

depends how you do it.
if you load the txt file on start of the bot it doesn't make a difference.
but if you don't it'll be slower, as you have 2 open the file over and over again.

plop

[IceCoder]

ok....

[SaintSinner]

Originally posted by IceCoder
ok....

ok....?