Look at this, O.o

[Bartimaeus]

I was fooling around with JJ's cheat pack, and I changed the activator in end globals and not in locals, and...well, it made a problem, but I tested something and...well, look for yourself.

function CheatUse takes nothing returns nothing
local player p2p=GetTriggerPlayer()
if SubString(GetEventPlayerChatString(),0,4)=="-Sahasralah"then
call TriggerRegisterPlayerChatEvent(CHEATS,p2p,"-",false)
call DisplayTimedTextToPlayer(p2p,0,0,10,"|cff00BFFFJJ|r |cff00BFBARules!")
endif
set p2p=null
endfunction

There's the activator. Here's the locals.

local player p
local unit u
local integer JS
local integer aBd
local version v
local integer k7
local integer i
local integer zzz=0
loop
exitwhen zzz>11
call TriggerRegisterPlayerChatEvent(ICHEAT,Player(zzz),"-Bartimaeus",false)
set zzz=zzz+1
endloop
call TriggerAddAction(ICHEAT,function CheatUse)
call TriggerAddAction(CHEATS,function DirectCheat)

And I tested it, only for it not to work, and than I looked at my jass pack, to see the
"call TriggerRegisterPlayerChatEvent(ICHEAT,Player(zzz),"Bartimaeus",false)
and since they both required to be typed in the same message, I typed -Bartimaeus -Sahasralah, only to smack myself on the head because I remembered that the activator has to be typed first, so I typed -Sahasralah -Bartimaeus, and for some reason, it said "JJ Rules!", and somehow I seriously doubted the cheats would work, but I typed in -gold 500000 and my gold went up. I just found it odd - and I saw that instead of making the activator have the full message, you can make the local have the full activator, and it'll work the same - I tested this right after and it worked. It also works if contain the other half of the message, such as -lol for the activator and 111 for the local, and it'll work if you put them together. It can throw people off who are looking through the jass file and are looking for PlayerChatEvent instead of at the locals. I just thought I would mention this, because it struck me odd. So now my activator is -JJ(space) and my local is 1337, and it works - but if you don't type the 1337 after it, it doesn't. Did anyone else know about this..? lol, because I didn't. If I'm a dummy, please say so. lol XD

[Aero]

JJ's cheat pack

Lol...my cheatpack with a few cheats added =P

Euhm..just a few comments on this.

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if SubString(GetEventPlayerChatString(),0,4)=="-Sahasralah"then

This if statement will ALWAYS return false.

The reason is that the longest string that SubString("Any String",0,4) can return is a string with a length of 4.
A string with length 4 can never be "-Sahasralah".

Now, if I assume that the 4 there is an error and is really an 11, I can explain why this works...

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call TriggerRegisterPlayerChatEvent(ICHEAT,Player(zzz),"-Bartimaeus",false)

All this means is that the player has to type "-Bartimaeus" anywhere in a chat string.

Therefore, the cheats will activate as long as the first 11 letters of the string are "-Sahasralah" and the string contains "-Bartimaeus".

Nothing special here--don't know what you're trying to get at.

[Bartimaeus]

JJ's cheat pack

Lol...my cheatpack with a few cheats added =P

Euhm..just a few comments on this.

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if SubString(GetEventPlayerChatString(),0,4)=="-Sahasralah"then

This if statement will ALWAYS return false.

The reason is that the longest string that SubString("Any String",0,4) can return is a string with a length of 4.
A string with length 4 can never be "-Sahasralah".

Now, if I assume that the 4 there is an error and is really an 11, I can explain why this works...

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call TriggerRegisterPlayerChatEvent(ICHEAT,Player(zzz),"-Bartimaeus",false)

All this means is that the player has to type "-Bartimaeus" anywhere in a chat string.

Therefore, the cheats will activate as long as the first 11 letters of the string are "-Sahasralah" and the string contains "-Bartimaeus".

Nothing special here--don't know what you're trying to get at.

Yes, it's suppose to be an eleven, I probably messed that up after I was editing it.
I was trying to get at that if you simply have -Sahasralah, and they type it, but the local is an entirely different thing, it won't activate, meaning a simple "PlayerChatEvent" search in JASSCraft for noobies (such as I) won't reveal the actual activator, which is what people tend to do.

[Aero]

Oh, I see what you mean.

I always check the action though the minute I see this:

call TriggerRegisterPlayerChatEvent(ICHEAT,Player(zzz),"-Bartimaeus",false)

But for everyday joe, it's probably useful.