Zugg Software :: View topic

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Hey guys, thanks for all of the help you give me. Here's a few more things that should be relatively simple for you to explain, but of which I do not have the answer:

I have seen people try and refer to other variables by the value of another variable, something like @(@var1) where var1="var2", thus the ultimate result of using @var1 in that manner is actually to refer to @var2. My question is wondering if I can use a similar means to create variables that aren't there, and refer to them if they are. And to also see if I can replace any spaces in input with an _.

A few examples:

I want to form an alias with this sort of structure

set [set_type] [equip_slot] [value]
ex:
set mana head helmet blue leather

This alias would first see mana and recognize that as the first value it is a set type (mana gear, hp gear, hit/dam gear, AC gear). It would then see head, and recognize that as the second value is identifying the slot of equipment that I am specifying. In this case, head gear (helmets, hats, etc...). It would then see anything after the first two values as one whole value that might be spaced.

Taking this input, the alias would do the following:
It would create/refer to the appropriate variable, where the variable name is specified by the first two values, in our above example we would be using a variable called mana_head, thus referred to as @mana_head or #var mana_head value

It would then either create the variable if it's not there, or refer to it if it is, and put the last value in as the value of the variable, so ultimately we would have
@mana_head="helmet blue leather"

So, if @mana_head was not there, it would create the variable using value 1 and value 2 and setting the value by value 3. If the variable existed, it would refer to it, using value 1 and value 2 and would replace the current value with value 3.

--------------------------------------------------------

My other question has to do with a similar thing about creating variables.

The following is an affects list of spells currently on a given character.

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:49 pm

For the alias this seems to work assuming the set type and equipment slot are only ever going to be one word each:

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:55 pm

Well the short answer is yes you can. what you probably need to do is something like this.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

I'll read up on DB variables and see if I'm comfortable enough with them to use them, thanks.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

I'm actually failing to see how this will help me, perhaps I should explain more. My idea is not to store information about equipment (though that is a nice feature in the database could be useful for other things). I want to be able to have a way to keep track of sets of gear to be worn and changed in and out of easily.

So I would do something like

Set Mana Head Helmet Blue Leather
Set AC Head Helmet Hard Leather
Set HD head Helmet Spiked Leather

This would create the variables and their values:
@_Mana_Head="Helmet Blue Leather"
@_AC_Head="Helmet Hard Leather"
@_HD_Head="Helmet Spiked Leather"

Then, in a fight, I might type:

wear HD Head

which would send:
get 'Helmet Spiked Leather' container
wear 'Helmet Spiked Leather'
put 'Helmet Blue Leather' container
_Current_Head="Helmet Spiked Leather"

I could also do
wear HD all

which would do the same, except for all equipment slots, etc...

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

I, personally, would probably set it up something like this:

Variables:
A simple string list with all of the slot types in it (head|body|arms)... called @slots.
A variable @armour_current which is a DB variable of all the armour you're wearing right now.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

That's a lot of stuff to digest, but I'll definitely try it.

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

You probably also want to add a quick check to see if you're wearing what you would be wearing when you changed and then do nothing if that's the case.

And a script to grab what you're currently wearing off of something other than having kept track (in case you get something forcibly removed or whatever).

And other stuff I've already forgotten. I hate being old. :/

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

As to the second one, if I also stored in the database the short name of the item I could do such a thing. So I suppose it would look like the current with another slot for the short name which is irrelevant until I type EQ and get a list of gear.

The short name can be grabbed if I a devise a way to have it add the short that is given when I wear the particular piece of gear. Something I may have to ask about later, but I just want to get the basics of this whole thing down first.