I am working on a trivia game in a discord bot which at the moment works like this:
- User clicks "Begin" button
- Code adds user id to a set, and a while(set.has(user.id)) is executed
- In this loop: New question is sent to channel
Now, the way discord.js handles it is that buttons fire events when clicked, but I at the moment send the question in the while() loop to check for an ongoing game, so in order to not send random questions over and over again, I need the bot to wait before a button is pressed. Is that possible? Or would a different approach be better?
Code for this part is down here:
const button_row_trivia_game_start_buttons = new Discord.MessageActionRow()
.addComponents(
new Discord.MessageButton()
.setCustomId("trivia_begin")
.setLabel("Start")
.setStyle("PRIMARY")
)
.addComponents(
new Discord.MessageButton()
.setCustomId("trivia_cancel")
.setLabel("Cacnel")
.setStyle("DANGER")
)
const button_row_trivia_game_answer_buttons = new Discord.MessageActionRow()
.addComponents(
new Discord.MessageButton()
.setCustomId("trivia_true")
.setLabel("Yes")
.setStyle("SUCCESS")
)
.addComponents(
new Discord.MessageButton()
.setCustomId("trivia_false")
.setLabel("No")
.setStyle("DANGER")
)
await interaction.reply({ embeds: [trivia_begin_embed], components: [button_row_trivia_game_start_buttons] }).then(() => {
const button_row_trivia_game_begin_buttons_collector = interaction.channel.createMessageComponentCollector({ componentType: 'BUTTON', time: 60000, max: 1 });
button_row_trivia_game_begin_buttons_collector.on('collect', async (collectedButtonClick) => {
if(collectedButtonClick.user.id === interaction.user.id) {
if(collectedButtonClick.customId === "trivia_begin") {
set_trivia_ongoing_trivia_games.add(uniqueUserKey)
while(set_trivia_ongoing_trivia_games.has(uniqueUserKey)) {
let trivia_question_counter = 0
let trivia_droplet_earnings = 0
let trivia_question_randomness_decider = Math.floor(Math.random() * 100)
let trivia_question = await getQuestions({
amount: 1,
difficulty: "easy",
type: "boolean",
category: Category.allNames.GENERAL_KNOWLEDGE
});
let trivia_question_embed = new Discord.MessageEmbed()
.setColor(0x009dff)
.setTitle(`\u{1F5F3} Fact Check!`)
.addFields(
{
name: `${trivia_question[0].value} **Is this true?**`,
value: `Question **${trivia_question_counter}** | Droplets earned: **${trivia_droplet_earnings}**`,
inline: true,
},
)
console.log("NOW SENDING QUESTION")
await collectedButtonClick.update({ embeds: [trivia_question_embed], components: [button_row_trivia_game_answer_buttons] }).then(() => {
const button_row_trivia_game_answers_collector = collectedButtonClick.channel.createMessageComponentCollector({ componentType: 'BUTTON', time: 10000, max: 1 });
button_row_trivia_game_answers_collector.on('collect', async (answer) => {
trivia_question_counter = trivia_question_counter + 1
if(answer.customId === "trivia_true" || trivia_question.correctAnswer === "True") { // correct yes
collectedButtonClick.update(`CORRECT ANSWER (NO. ${trivia_question_counter})`)
console.log("a")
}
else if(answer.customId === "trivia_true" || trivia_question.correctAnswer === "False") { // wrong yes
collectedButtonClick.update(`WRONG ANSWER (NO. ${trivia_question_counter})`)
set_trivia_ongoing_trivia_games.delete(uniqueUserKey);
console.log("b")
}
else if(answer.customId === "trivia_false" || trivia_question.correctAnswer === "True") { // wrong no
collectedButtonClick.update(`WRONG ANSWER (NO. ${trivia_question_counter})`)
set_trivia_ongoing_trivia_games.delete(uniqueUserKey);
console.log("c")
}
else if(answer.customId === "trivia_false" || trivia_question.correctAnswer === "False") { // correct no
collectedButtonClick.update(`CORRECT ANSWER (NO. ${trivia_question_counter})`)
console.log("d")
}
})
})
}
} else {
collectedButtonClick.update({ content: "Game cancelled.", embeds: [], components: [] })
}
}
button_row_trivia_game_begin_buttons_collector.on('end', async (collectedObjects, reason) => {
if(reason != "limit") {
await interaction.editReply({ embeds: [trivia_question_timeout_embed], components: [] });
}
});
return;
For context: The collector is the discord.js object that collects the buttons pressed, and fires the event once a button is pressed. Some of the embeds are defined earlier in the code. Any help is appreciated!
