[safetymoose]

Hi guys,

I need your help to capture an event where a certain entity gets triggered. For example, we have a door that is triggered to open/close by a button. I would like to send a message when someone opens or closes this door. I can catch when someone presses the button, but the problem is that people can spam the button, and it would flood messages. I would like to catch the exact moment when the door gets triggered.

something like "Player pressed the button and the door opened"

Multiple players could be spamming the button at the same time, but the message should only come once with the player who actually opened the door.

And i'm not just talking about doors, it could be any type of entity, triggered by a button.

What would you recommend?

[Bugsy]

If you want to reset the buttons at any point so that they can be used again, call ClearEntsUsed(). Add as many button classnames as you'd like. I have 'func_button' below and also did 'hostage_entity' as a second example.

PHP Code:


#include <amxmodx>
#include <hamsandwich>

const ENTS_ARRAY_SIZE = 64;

new g_bEntityUsed[ ENTS_ARRAY_SIZE ];

public plugin_init()
{
    RegisterHam( Ham_Use , "func_button" , "Ham_ButtonUse" );
    RegisterHam( Ham_Use , "hostage_entity" , "Ham_ButtonUse" );
}

public Ham_ButtonUse( iEntity , iUser , idActivator , iUseType , Float:fValue )
{ 
    new szName[ 33 ];

    if ( ( iUseType == 2 ) && ( fValue == 1.0 ) && is_user_alive( iUser ) )
    {
        if ( ( g_bEntityUsed[ iEntity >> 5 ] & (1 << ( iEntity & 31 ) ) ) )
        {
            return HAM_SUPERCEDE;
        }
        else
        {
            get_user_name( iUser , szName , charsmax( szName ) );
            client_print( 0 , print_chat , "* Button was used by %s!" , szName );
            
            g_bEntityUsed[ iEntity >> 5 ] |= ( 1 << ( iEntity & 31 ) );
        }
    }
    
    return HAM_IGNORED;
}

public ClearEntsUsed()
{
    for ( new i = 0 ; i < ENTS_ARRAY_SIZE ; i++ )
        g_bEntityUsed[ i ] = 0;
} 


[safetymoose]

this is good to know, but it's not what i'm looking for.

I am trying to catch the moment when the button actually triggers the door to open/close. For example, it takes the door 5 seconds to open/close. The button can be pressed every 1 second. When i catch the use of the button, i only need the moment where it actually triggers the door, and ignore the other time it's pressed.

I thought about using a timer, but that is a bad idea, and it will not work for different situations...

[Bugsy]

Its the first click though, right? There is just a delay for when the actual door moves.