On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 02:44:21AM -0300, pablo báez wrote: > Hi, Hello,
> I'd like to write a plugin for an IRC bot (which is based on
> POE::Component::IRC) using POE::Component::IRC::Plugin. I want
> it to do the following (this is a simplified version of what I
> actually would like it to do):
>
> When the nick 'foo' sends to a channel
>
> <foo> !greet 20
>
> the bot must reply
>
> <bot> Hi foo!
>
> after 20 seconds. How could I do that? I don't know how to
> trigger an event after a specified amount of time.
I'm a POE newbie myself, but the POE::Kernel SYNOPSIS contains an
example that recursively triggers an event after a second (except
for the initial one, I imagine):
> POE::Session->create(
> inline_states => {
> _start => sub { $_[KERNEL]->yield("next") },
> next => sub {
> print "tick...\n";
> $_[KERNEL]->delay(next => 1); # ***
> },
> });
It appears that delay() is a standard method that can trigger an
event after some amount of time.
Regards,
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Castopulence Software <https://www.castopulence.org/>
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q{Vg qbrfa'\''g nyjnlf fbhaq gung jnl.};
tr/A-Ma-mN-Zn-z/N-Zn-zA-Ma-m/;say'
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