Trigger Evaluate & Execute

[Ayanami]

Is there a difference between the two? Well, from my guess, Trigger Evaluate would be better? I mean if I use the "Condition" as my "Action", Trigger Evaluate would be faster, right? Just need someone to clarify this. Thanks!

 

[Sevion]

If memory serves Evaluate checks the conditions and returns a boolean on whether it should fire actions or not.

Execute will fire all of the actions in separate threads per action.

 

[Troll-Brain]

Both open a new thread (and so halt the previous one, since jass doesn't support multi-threads).
But TriggerEvaluate is faster, plus you don't need to remove a trigger-condition when you destroy a trigger, you will have to remove a trigger-action if you destroy a trigger, else you will leak the action (TriggerClearActions only disable actions but doesn't free the memory)

Just be aware that obviously you can't use TriggerSleepAction and so also PolledWait in a trigger condition for an obvious reason (which is in most cases hardly a con).
I believe you can't also use some few functions in a trigger condition, such as PauseGame if i remember correctly.

 

[Ayanami]

Thanks for the clarification guys.

 

[tooltiperror]

Or you can of course use the sure-to-fire method used in GTrigger.

if TriggerEvaluate(t) then
    TriggerExecute(t)
endif