Thread regarding the interactions

[prisma yacht]

First message.

[hushed ferry]

Second message

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How do you handle your events? So how is the interactioncreate event handled in this case

Is it in your main file as client.on(interactioncreate)?

[hushed ferry]

Or in seperate files

[prisma yacht]

This is the interactionCreate on this bot

[clear light]

ah okay, it's in the same file

[hushed ferry]

Ah okay

[prisma yacht]

No it's in a different file

[hushed ferry]

Then that's not the issue

[clear light]

I meant the event

[hushed ferry]

Apologies for the confusion

[prisma yacht]

When using the "lancerunscenario" command, it calls the function in another file

[hushed ferry]

What is that function?

[hushed ferry]

Yeah that shouldnt cause issues

[prisma yacht]

(To give some context, the bot is a library bot, opening various gamebooks)

[hushed ferry]

Is your bot in many servers?

Do many ppl put reactions on msgs there?

[prisma yacht]

So with the slash command, you select a book, in this case "Labyinthe de Sang"

[hushed ferry]

Wait let's do it easy

[prisma yacht]

No none

[hushed ferry]

Put this in the messagereactionadd event

Console.log(1)

[prisma yacht]

It's only in one guild, and there are no reactions atm

[clear light]

you should put that messageReactionAdd event in this file as events inside events will make it loop

[hushed ferry]

Wait no that won't work

You could make a counter

In the event handler to count how many times its been called

That way you can see how many times the event was emitted in your console

You could put

let counter = 0

Before the event

[hushed ferry]

And in the event console.log(counter) and in the next line counter++

[hushed ferry]

Also please make sure not to push slash commands at every reboot

There's a limit of 100 global and 100 guild commands per day, it'll get you rate limited. It's annoying

For you*

[prisma yacht]

Didn't know!

I corrected it

[hushed ferry]

Epic! Just triggering with a command or a seperate script does the trick

I like to use a command, but many ppl use seperate scripts as you need to reload the bot anyways to add your command handler for the new command into the working bot anyways

[prisma yacht]

This is the number of times every handler is called

[hushed ferry]

Hmm and this all triggers when you boot the bot and then only click a reaction

Can you send your entire main file

[prisma yacht]

the first addMessageReaction entered isn't triggered when the bot reacts

both are triggered when I click

[hushed ferry]

Hmm but you got the type guard now so that's expected

[hushed ferry]

The client.on needs to be in another file

Because it'll work always globally

So you can just add it in main file

[clear light]

your messageReactionAdd event needs to be in the file with your interactionCreate event (maybe below that event?)

[hushed ferry]

Yup

Unless your events get seperated into files

[prisma yacht]

wow

That completely breaks the way I architectured this one

[hushed ferry]

I hate how djs explains this crap to new users

[prisma yacht]

Gimme a second to figure out what it means

[hushed ferry]

Okay

[prisma yacht]

I mean, I fully understand what's going on

Just figuring out the implications in this case

[hushed ferry]

Basically event handlers occur once in the main file and listen to events being emitted from. The client

Okay

Feel free to ask if you need anything

[clear light]

by the way, if you don't like a whole spaghetti of event emitters, then you can create an event handler, which spans your events on multiple files (like your command handler). this makes it more readable

[prisma yacht]

That's helpful I'll think about that

[pale trellis]

Creating Your Bot: Event handling
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[hushed ferry]

Yea that's what I super hate but it does help for some

[prisma yacht]

I'll try to rethink the code and will keep the thread open in the meantime

Thanks a lot to both of you

[hushed ferry]

Yea def do!

Anytime!

[clear light]

no problem!

[prisma yacht]

Well it was fast.

This is the code in the main file:

[hushed ferry]

Now it'll fire once

[prisma yacht]

My understanding was that messageReactionAdd was global. So if I started the bot, it would print a "Hello buddy" every time I clicked a reaction in the guild?

[hushed ferry]

For each reaction

[prisma yacht]

But it absolutely doesnt

[hushed ferry]

Hmm what does it do

[prisma yacht]

Nothing

It isn't called

[hushed ferry]

Your client is constructed in that file?

That's very weird

[prisma yacht]

Yes

[hushed ferry]

And interactions still work?

[prisma yacht]

interaction does work normally

[hushed ferry]

That looks mighty fine

No typos in the event name messagereactionadd?

Don't see any

[prisma yacht]

Just c/c'd from the other file where it looped

That's pretty confusing

[hushed ferry]

That's very weird

I can't hop on my pc atm to check

[prisma yacht]

Nah nah it's all good

I'll try to figure it out

And will let you know if I find an explanation

[hushed ferry]

Hold up

[prisma yacht]

Yeah?

[hushed ferry]

Did you send a new message

With a reaction

Or an old one

[prisma yacht]

Old one

[hushed ferry]

Send a new one

The message is uncached

After a reboot

[prisma yacht]

Works

[hushed ferry]

So you'd need to fetch the message for it to work on the old one

[prisma yacht]

wow

[hushed ferry]

I'd suggest using buttons over reactions

[prisma yacht]

Yep definitely but

Aren't buttons only used to reply to a command?

[hushed ferry]

They always emit interactioncreate no matter if the message was sent 20 years ago

[hushed ferry]

Nono

They emit the same event as a command

[prisma yacht]

I would like to print buttons afgter a messge to let users choose between options

OKOK

[hushed ferry]

You can add buttons like you have the reactions now

[prisma yacht]

I'll check the doc for the buttons

Thanks!

[hushed ferry]

No problem!

It's much easier to handle

[prisma yacht]

Yeah definitely seems like it

[hushed ferry]

And can work with custom ids, which saves you the pain of dealing with all the different reactions

If you need, give me a ping here or hit me up in dms

[prisma yacht]

Sure thing, really appreciate the help!