[Brad]

Originally Posted by dutchmeat meh slaps myself in face, but asks if this could be right ? public bomb_planting( planter ) { return PLUGIN_HANDLED }

That's what I use.

Specifically, in one of my plugins, I detect the starting and stopping of the bomb being planted thusly:

public bomb_planting(planter)
{
    g_bombPlanter = planter;
    meter_pause(planter);
}

public event_bartime(id)
{
    if (read_data(1) == 0)
    {
        if (id == g_bombPlanter)
            g_bombPlanter = 0;
        else if (id == g_bombDefuser)
            g_bombDefuser = 0;
        else
            return;
            
        meter_unpause(id);
    }
}

public bomb_planted(planter)
{
    g_bombPlanter = 0;
    g_bombPlanted = true;
    meter_unpause(planter);
}

[XxAvalanchexX]

So, yes, it is sent a second time then?

[Brad]

The "BarTime" event, yes.

[Zenith77]

I never knew such a forward existed, I feel so lonely...

[VEN]

You could use the good old method of hooking attack (buttons) through prethink and check their current weapon

Player can press attack outside of bomb target so you have to check if player at the bomb target, if CurWeapon is C4, if in attack button, if old buttons not in attack. But even this will not tell you for sure. Player can be in the air. Et cetera.

Even if button is pressed this doesn't necessarily mean that the corresponding action occurs. So i can't agree that this method is "good", old - yes, but not that good.

Only problem is that other 3rd prarty plugins can also invoke the progress bar.

In fact everything can be faked: messages, entities, models, animation, etc, so you can't be sure in any way.

But we don't care unless they use emessage system.
FYI: Even bomb_planting forward is use BarTime to catch bomb planting also, so emessage will mess with this forward also.
Basically the functionality of this forward is the same as hook

register_event("BarTime", "evBombPlantingStarted", "be", "1=3")

So we do not actually need an additional module in this case.

Check the player's animation

This method isn't accurate enough.

Catch when the bar is displayed on the screen - my only concern here is what if the player didn't complete planting it - I would have to reset the isPlayerPlanting variable - how do do this?

As shown in the Brad's code you have to check whether the first argument of BarTime message equal to zero.

Also here are the CS Bomb Scripting FAQ/Tutorial

[Geesu]

TY for that link VEN - so in theory I could just use these 2 :

// Bomb planting started event
register_event("BarTime", "event_function", "be", "1=3")

// Bomb planting/defusion canceled event
register_event("BarTime", "event_function", "b", "1=0")

and have a boolean variable

[VEN]

Yes, but since the second one isn't called on bomb plant you'll have to hook bomb_planted event as well.

// Bomb planted event register_logevent("logevent_function_p", 3, "2=Planted_The_Bomb")