How To Post Your Trigger

Rheiko · Jul 13, 2016

How To Post Your Triggers

I've seen many members across the site—especially newcomers—who need help with their triggers but don't know how to properly post them in a thread. Posting your triggers clearly is very important when you're asking others for help in fixing or identifying issues. This tutorial is intended to guide you on how to easily share your triggers in a thread.

Table of Contents

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Step 1 - Find Your Trigger

Step 2 - Copy Your Trigger

Step 3 - Paste Your Trigger

Step 4 - The Hidden Tags

Step 5 - How To Post JASS Scripts

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Find Your Trigger

First of all, you need to locate the trigger you want to post. This is a basic step, and you probably already know how to do it—but just in case, here’s a quick guide. Open your map in the World Editor, click on the "Module" menu, and select "Trigger Editor". Alternatively, you can press F4 as a shortcut—it’s quicker and more convenient.

The Trigger Editor window will open. Browse through the folders to locate the trigger you want to share, then left-click on it to select it.
Copy Your Trigger
Once you've left-clicked on the trigger you want to post, you'll notice that the Trigger Editor is divided into three main sections:
- The left panel – This shows the list of folders and triggers in your map.
- The upper-right panel – This displays the trigger's comment or description.
- The lower-right panel (Trigger Functions) – This is where the actual trigger actions are shown.
In the Trigger Functions panel, right-click on the trigger title (the top line of the actions). A menu will appear—select "Copy As Text" by left-clicking on it. This will copy the whole trigger of "Melee Initialization" in one go. Similarly, you can also right-click on any individual section of the trigger if you wish to copy only that portion as text (e.g. events, conditions, actions). If you wish to copy only one line of the trigger then simply right-click on that single line. For this tutorial, we will copy the whole trigger like so:
Paste Your Trigger

On Hiveworkshop, you can post your triggers in a thread using the [trigger][/trigger] tags. You can type these tags manually, or simply left-click the trigger button to automatically insert them. This ensures that your triggers are properly formatted and easy for others to read and understand.

Use whichever method you prefer to add the [trigger][/trigger] tags, then paste your copied trigger between them, like this:
[trigger]Paste your copied Trigger here![/trigger]

Here's my final result when I make a post:
- Melee Initialization
  - Events
    - Map initialization
  - Conditions
  - Actions
    - Melee Game - Use melee time of day (for all players)
    - Melee Game - Limit Heroes to 1 per Hero-type (for all players)
    - Melee Game - Give trained Heroes a Scroll of Town Portal (for all players)
    - Melee Game - Set starting resources (for all players)
    - Melee Game - Remove creeps and critters from used start locations (for all players)
    - Melee Game - Create starting units (for all players)
    - Melee Game - Run melee AI scripts (for computer players)
    - Melee Game - Enforce victory/defeat conditions (for all players)
The Hidden Tags

You may probably have noticed that the browser window gets stretched sometimes (It depends on how long the triggers are and where you post them). This can be unpleasant for some people to look at, so you definitely need to do something about this. This is where the Hidden Tags get some action. Hidden Tags allow you to hide a huge wall of text in your postings. This is very useful for triggers because they usually have a huge wall of text. Now, simply write [hidden=The Title][/hidden]. As usual, the text that you wanted to hide must be between the tags. Here's the example of it:
Melee Initialization

Events

Map initialization

Conditions

Actions

Melee Game - Use melee time of day (for all players)

Melee Game - Limit Heroes to 1 per Hero-type (for all players)

Melee Game - Give trained Heroes a Scroll of Town Portal (for all players)

Melee Game - Set starting resources (for all players)

Melee Game - Remove creeps and critters from used start locations (for all players)

Melee Game - Create starting units (for all players)

Melee Game - Run melee AI scripts (for computer players)

Melee Game - Enforce victory/defeat conditions (for all players)

How To Post JASS Scripts

Posting JASS Scripts is even easier than posting Triggers. Simply find the Scripts you want to post, select all the text inside and copy them. Go to the forum, find JASS button and left-click on it. You can find the button right beside the trigger button. Then paste the scripts between the [code=jass][/code] tags. Example:

JASS:

function Trig_Melee_Initialization_Actions takes nothing returns nothing
     call MeleeStartingVisibility(  )
     call MeleeStartingHeroLimit(  )
     call MeleeGrantHeroItems(  )
     call MeleeStartingResources(  )
     call MeleeClearExcessUnits(  )
     call MeleeStartingUnits(  )
     call MeleeStartingAI(  )
     call MeleeInitVictoryDefeat(  )
 endfunction
 
 //===========================================================================
 function InitTrig_Melee_Initialization takes nothing returns nothinghttps://www.hiveworkshop.com/search/
     set gg_trg_Melee_Initialization = CreateTrigger(  )
     call TriggerAddAction( gg_trg_Melee_Initialization, function Trig_Melee_Initialization_Actions )
 endfunction

If you want to show someone a simple function or a single row of code, you can use the [icode=jass][/icode] tags instead. Example:

call KillUnit(udg_YourVar)
call RemoveLocation(udg_YourVar)

That is all about How To Post Your Triggers. I hope this tutorial can help you out.
Enjoy exploring the site!

Any feedbacks and suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Sincerely, Rheiko ~

KILLCIDE · Jul 16, 2016

An updated "How to Post Triggers" was definitely needed, but I'm not really digging the color choice here. The small text size between the large photos also made me miss some text describing the images

Rheiko said:
This is very useful for triggers because they usually have a huge wall of text.

When Hive was updated, Ralle made it so that triggers have a maximum height like jass tags. They won't stretch the entire page like they used to xP With that in mind, I only advise using [hidden=""][/hidden] when you are posting inside a table.

Rheiko · Jul 17, 2016

KILLCIDE said:
An updated "How to Post Triggers" was definitely needed

Definitely!

KILLCIDE said:
The small text size between the large photos also made me miss some text describing the images

Now that you mention it. Well, I don't think that's a big problem but I probably can make the text size slightly bigger.

KILLCIDE said:
When Hive was updated, Ralle made it so that triggers have a maximum height like jass tags. They won't stretch the entire page like they used to xP With that in mind, I only advise using when you are posting inside a table.

Hmm, I wasn't sure Ralle has already made that change by the time I made this tutorial and I didn't actually bother to confirm it so I just wrote it anyway.

Thanks for your feedback!

PurgeandFire · Aug 1, 2016

Looks good! Thanks for making this!

Approved.

IcemanBo · Aug 1, 2016

Definilty good one to have updated!

Though I did never understand the extra step to find the trigger editor and the right trigger. It seems like saying
" look at site 10 now"
vs "
" you need to have your book open that you are currently reading and then look at site 10 "

Rheiko · Aug 1, 2016

IcemanBo said:
Though I did never understand the extra step to find the trigger editor and the right trigger. It seems like saying
" look at site 10 now"
vs "
" you need to have your book open that you are currently reading and then look at site 10 "

Perhaps It needs to be explained more thoroughly, because it sounds unclear and people can find it difficult to understand what it means. :xxd:

IcemanBo · Aug 1, 2016

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