textmacro loops

04-13-2009, 04:13 AM

so after coding modules, I feel like recoding textmacros so they have things like nesting and loops.

A textmacro loop is supposed to fix that problem people have some times, have you ever created 100 rects in a map to then figure out you need to add all of them to a region?

JASS:

     call RegionAddRect(r, gg_rct_ar001)
     call RegionAddRect(r, gg_rct_ar002)
     call RegionAddRect(r, gg_rct_ar003)
     call RegionAddRect(r, gg_rct_ar004)
     call RegionAddRect(r, gg_rct_ar005)
...

So a textmacro loop should be able to do that. You give it numbers 1 and 4 and then it repeats the same text macro over and over again.

The question is: give me syntax for that. Remember these are textmacros so it is supposed to be //! - based.

JASS:

//! textmacro addreg takes i
     call RegionAddRect(r, gg_rct_ar00$i$ )
//! endtextmacro

// (insert syntax to run addreg from 1 to 9 here)

04-13-2009, 04:24 AM	#2
FriendlyPsycho	JASS: //! runtextmacro for n to N addreg(LOOP_COUNT) //! runtextmacro addreg(LOOPCOUNT) for n to N LOOP_COUNT is the, well the integer 'n'. "for n to N" is a for-loop syntax.

04-13-2009, 05:08 AM	#3
TriggerHappy	JASS: //! runtextmaco addreg(LOOP_COUNT) while i < 10 //! runtextmaco addreg(LOOP_COUNT) until i == 9 Of course, allow the standard comparison operators.

04-13-2009, 06:40 AM	#4
MaD[Lion]	OMG add this and.. and ill abuse it more. ive stopped abusing textmacros cus u didnt add such uberness HAPPY! :D

04-13-2009, 07:19 AM	#5
Strilanc	Just have it be MIN:MAX instead of a string literal. JASS: //! runtextmacro name("some_arg", 0:99, "some_other_arg")

04-13-2009, 08:28 AM

Ammorth

Quote:

Originally Posted by Strilanc

Just have it be MIN:MAX instead of a string literal.

JASS:

//! runtextmacro name("some_arg", 0:99, "some_other_arg")

I like this. Would also be nifty if it would recognized 99:0 and start high and subtract to the low.

04-13-2009, 09:26 AM	#7
akolyt0r	this solution misses an identifier for the index.

04-13-2009, 12:12 PM

peq

maybe this is too complicated, but i would like to see something like this if you expand textmacros.

JASS:

//! textmacro addreg takes i
     call RegionAddRect(r, gg_rct_ar00$i$ )
//! endtextmacro

//! set i = 1
//! textloop
    //! runtextmacro addreg(i)
    //! set i = i + 1
    //! exitwhen i > 9
//! endtextloop

JASS:

//! textmacro addreg takes i
     call RegionAddRect(r, gg_rct_ar00$i$ )
//! endtextmacro

//! textmacro times takes macro, count
    //! runtextmacro macro(count)
    //! if count > 0 then
        //! runtextmacro times(macro, count-1)
    //! endif
//! endtextmacro

//! runtextmacro times(macro, 9)

04-13-2009, 03:32 PM

Strilanc

Quote:

Originally Posted by akolyt0r

this solution misses an identifier for the index.

You only need an identifier when declaring the text macro, or if you wanted the same index to be used in two arguments.

JASS:

//! runtextmacro name("some_arg", 0:99, "some_other_arg")

//expands to: 
//! runtextmacro name("some_arg", "0", "some_other_arg")
//! runtextmacro name("some_arg", "1", "some_other_arg")
...
//! runtextmacro name("some_arg", "99", "some_other_arg")

As you can see, no need for an identifier.

04-13-2009, 04:15 PM	#10
Seshiro	I'd say that JASS: //! fortextmacro(min,max,step) addreg(:iterator:) looks for me like a good opinion^^ Greez

04-14-2009, 02:17 AM	#11
Anitarf	//! runtextmacro name("meh", iterator) 1 to 5 step 2 Dunno, just a random suggestion. I don't particularly care for textmacros anyway.

04-14-2009, 02:58 AM	#12
Deaod	//! for i=1 to 5 step 1 do runtextmacro addreg(i) pascal-style! maybe without "step 1"....

04-14-2009, 04:44 AM	#13
Blackroot	Code: //!for n=0;9 call RegionAddRect(region, gg_rct_000$n$) //!endloop [edit] endloop is probably going to be tokenized; so you'd probably need something not already taken. or Maybe Code: //!do call RegionAddRect(region, gg_rct_000$n$) //!for n=0;9

04-14-2009, 05:48 AM

#14

Here-b-Trollz

loop(start,end,step):

//! loop(1,100,1)
    stuff
//! endloop

addreg example:

//! loop(1,9,1)
    //! runtextmacro addreg(i)
//! endloop

Alternatively, we could define what our symbol is - loop(start,end,symbol,step):

//! loop(1,10,Q,1)
    //! runtextmacro addreg($Q$)
//! endloop

Alternative keywords:

//! textmacroloop(1,10,i,1)
//! endtextmacroloop

//! textloop(1,10,i,1)
//! endtextloop

//! macroloop(1,10,i,1)
//! endmacroloop

//! forloop(1,10,i,1)
//! endforloop

//! for(1,10,i,1)
//! endfor

04-14-2009, 06:33 AM

#15

Feroc1ty

JASS:

//! textloop addreg i(+1,00,09)
     call RegionAddRect(r, gg_rct_ar00$i$ )
//! endtextloop

JASS:

call RegionAddRect(r, gg_rct_ar0000 )
call RegionAddRect(r, gg_rct_ar0001 )
call RegionAddRect(r, gg_rct_ar0002 )
call RegionAddRect(r, gg_rct_ar0003 )
//etc...