getnpctimer

Originally posted by [b]Brian[/b]
This has been the behavior of [b]getnpctimer(0)[/b] as far as I can remember from eAthena -- the timer stops after the last "OnTimer<time>:" has triggered. I think the devs designed it this way because it's only meant to be a timer that triggers stuff.

If you want a continues timer where you can get the ticks that have passed, maybe use [wiki='gettimetick']. Or if you really want a NPC timer, set the last "OnTimer<time>:" to a very high number so your timer will continue ticking until it reaches it.

Originally posted by [b]Emistry[/b]
erm..not sure about this....but i remember in eAthena ...that the getnpctimer still continue count after the last OnTimer triggered unless we use stopnpctimer to stop/pause it....
anyway thx for the info...i think i'' just get use to this...xD

Originally posted by [b]Kenpachi[/b]
Nah Brian, it's not working as intended. Why should a timer stop automatically?
Maybe you want to stop it by clicking on a NPC and with the condition that the timer has elapsed at least 15 second even though the last OnTimer-label was at 9 seconds.

-> Confirmed

Originally posted by [b]GreenBox[/b]
Fixed in [rev=16769].

Originally posted by [b]kyeme[/b]
[s]Hmmmm, excuse me. Can i ask? The npctimer was not working properly on latest revision? Heres my screenshot and script[/s] nvm~~ I just changed my script

[CODE]
OnInit:
OnTimer1000:
delwaitingroom;
set .@total, getmapusers("pvp_y_1-2") + getmapusers("guild_vs1-1") + getmapusers("pvp_y_2-2") + getmapusers("force_1-1") + getmapusers("force_2-1") + getmapusers("force_3-1") + getmapusers("force_4-1") + getmapusers("force_5-1");
waitingroom " PvP Warper [ "+.@total+" ]", 0;
initnpctimer;
end;
[/CODE]
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Sorry if I'm in wrong section. Thank you.

Originally posted by [b]kyeme[/b]
When i reverted to r16768 its working properly > the timer..

Originally posted by [b]tommym[/b]
@[url="http://rathena.org/board/user/290-greenbox/"]GreenBox[/url]

I think your fix caused initnpctimer not to function fully anymore. Normally calling initnpctimer after it has already been run will reset the timer, but the timer doesn't reset any longer for the npc when initnpctimer is called again. I had to revert back to r16768(revision before you edited npc.c) to fix the problem.

Originally posted by [b]Euphy[/b]
^ That might be a real problem. I haven't checked, but more than a few scripts depend on that feature and we shouldn't break backwards compatibility.

Originally posted by [b]GreenBox[/b]
Actually I[color=#ffffff]'ts dolan[/color]forget that initnpctimer must restart it. Fixed in [rev=16784].

Originally posted by [b]QQfoolsorellina[/b]
I have a question , if the scripter forgotten to stop the npc time

, after a few days, will the value become overflow, and cause server to crash ?

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edit: thanks for Lighta's explaining, now I understand

Originally posted by [b]Lighta[/b]
Na most likekly when there an overflow it's start back to 0. (well for unsigned).

Originally posted by [b]GreenBox[/b]
As it uses the server tick, it will overflow with the server.