Question - How script can see that a particular task is still active without opening the TaskWnd

[SomeRandomDude]

Hi All. I'm writing a script to run a quest (task) repeatedly for faction. I originally keyed off of the completion text to know when the task was done, however, this had the downside of not allowing me to know if the quest was present when I started the script. So I switched over to checking the task window like this:

function WeHaveTheQuest()
    local count = tonumber(mq.TLO.Window("TaskWnd").Child("TASK_TaskList").Items())
    --print('Found ' .. count .. ' active tasks')
    for j = 1,count do
        local localQuestName = mq.TLO.Window("TaskWnd").Child("TASK_TaskList").List(j,3)()
        --print('Task #' .. j .. ' is "' .. localQuestName .. '"')
        if (localQuestName == questName) then
            return true
        end
    end
    return false
end

The thing that I observed is that when the quest completes the list doesn't refresh unless I actually open the TaskWnd. So now my script goofily opens the task window, queries the quest status, the closes the task window. It does this once every 10 seconds. The TaskWnd is only up for a split second, but still it annoys me.

Question: Is there any reliable way to query whether the task is still present without popping up the TaskWnd? I don't really want to rely on querying the "Quest Overlay" either since I'm not certain that everyone would have that visible.

I *could* do both: Check the quest status once on script launch and then after that key off of the completion text, but I just feel like there should be one unified solution that handles both well.

Thanks.

 

[brainiac]

Task - MacroQuest Docs

docs.macroquest.org

 

[Rare Spawn]

This is what I have/use. I am not coder, but I slept in a Holiday Inn once. (Note I removed some code not related to answering your question, like delays and payloads)

[CODE lang="Lua" title="Waiting for player to get task"]while mq.TLO.Task('When One Door Closes').ID() == nil do
print('\a-wWaiting for player to get task')
end[/CODE]

[CODE lang="Lua" title="Wait to zone in"]while not mq.TLO.DynamicZone.Leader.Flagged() do
print('\a-wWaiting to zone in.')
end[/CODE]

[CODE lang="Lua" title="Waiting for mission objective to complete"]while mq.TLO.Task('When One Door Closes').ID() ~= nil and mq.TLO.Task('When One Door Closes').Objective(1).Status() ~= 'Done' do
print('\a-wWaiting for fight to end.')
end[/CODE]

[CODE lang="Lua" title="Waiting for chest to be opened"]while mq.TLO.Task('When One Door Closes').Objective(1).Status() == 'Done' and mq.TLO.Task('When One Door Closes').Objective(2).Status() ~= 'Done' do
print('\a-wWaiting to open chest.')
end[/CODE]

[CODE lang="Lua" title="Wait for player to kick task"]while mq.TLO.Task('When One Door Closes').ID() ~= nil do
print('\a-wWaiting for player kick task')
end[/CODE]

 

[SomeRandomDude]

Thanks to both of you. That did the trick.