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This is actually a continuation of a post from 3 years ago...
http://www.dungeon-master.com/forum/vie ... et+counter

I would like to see the Toggle command changed for Counters. When you use the toggle command on a counter, it would reset the counter to 0.

Activate = Counter+1
Deactivate = Counter-1
Toggle = Reset Counter to 0

I am creating a shop using RTC. I have approached this from several angles and have descided that the only way to make a shop work 100% is to be able to reset counters to 0. (I could go into specifics of why, but It would take a while to explain)

Could we please have this added to the next version of RTC? PLEASE!?

Toggling of counters is already used in certain situations and changing its behaviour would destroy backward compatibility.

However the counter reset would be a very useful idea but not in this way.

Pedro

Pedro,
Certain situations? I'm not sure what you mean. I thought that Toggling and Activating both did the same thing for counters (Counter+1)? Can you explain plz?

Look at the counter (21,24,5) on standard DM map and connected with it 4 switches. This is a good example.

Another example:
You have one door and two triggers on floor.
Door can be opened only when two triggers get a proper item (e.g. stone).
If you remove the item from one of triggers then door will be closed again.

Toggling of counter is the only method to reach such effect I know.

@Pedro - Thanks for the clarification.

Still, there needs to be a way to be able to reset the counter back to 0. Any suggestions?

oops, forgot to login, lol

Your counter can activate a relay and then relay will deactivate this counter as many times as you want (maximum 8 times, but you can use more relays if necessary).
So, if you have, for example, a counter with count=4, you can set for such relay 4*dectivate the counter. This kind of "reset" can be executed only when counter reaches its value. I have no idea how to reset it if count<>value. It's probably impossible.

The problem is that I need to be able to reset the counter back to "0" no matter what the current count is. Deactivate works for other problems, but not for this one.

How about using the "Release" command as a Counter Reset. If you use the Release command on a counter, the counter resets to "0"...?

In CSBuild/CSBwin (using the original DM/CSB actuators)
a person could do this by setting a couple AND/OR gates
to temporarily reroute the COUNTER output to:
I don't know if RTC supports such things.

So it will decrement itself until it is zero and then
put things back to normal.
Of course a DSA would do it so easily that it would be
silly to go to so much trouble.

*bumpinator*

Of course this would be unneeded if we had a counter query...

And wouldn't THAT be useful!

Anyway, the method Paul S outlined can be duplicated fairly well using RTC mechanics using a second counter, pad and a fireball launcher.

Done for V0.38

What I've actually implemented is three new actions COUNTER_SET, COUNTER_INCREMENT and COUNTER_DECREMENT which allow you to set, increment or decrement the value of counters by the value contained in their strength parameter.

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh! *bounce*

Halleluyah ! Easy Shops ! Easy shops !

Wait, you mean my way wasn't easy?