SaveAgentHandle

08-13-2009, 07:13 PM	#1
Troll-Brain	JASS: native SaveAgentHandle takes hashtable table, integer parentKey, integer childKey, agent whichAgent returns boolean I fail to see how it could be useful, since we don't have GetAgentHandle. For sure it is useful for something but i really don't understand why, and i shouldn't be the only one, could someone explain me the usefulness of this function plz ?

08-13-2009, 07:17 PM

Earth-Fury

Quote:

Originally Posted by Troll-Brain

JASS:

native  SaveAgentHandle                    takes hashtable table, integer parentKey, integer childKey, agent whichAgent returns boolean

I fail to see how it could be useful, since we don't have GetAgentHandle.
For sure it is useful for something but i really don't understand why, and i shouldn't be the only one, could someone explain me the usefulness of this function plz ?

Either blizzard fails horribly (which I don't think is the case here), or handles now have type information and agents saved with SaveAgentHandle can be retrieved with the properly-typed get function.

08-13-2009, 07:19 PM

Rising_Dusk

Quote:

Originally Posted by Earth-Fury

Either blizzard fails horribly (which I don't think is the case here), or handles now have type information and agents saved with SaveAgentHandle can be retrieved with the properly-typed get function.

The bolded part is correct. It is meant as a replacement to H2I/I2H functionality.

08-13-2009, 07:34 PM	#4
Troll-Brain	That was i thought but then it's pretty useless for me, like most vJassers i don't use I2H anymore since i used vJass and structures. I guess IceFrog at least will use it :p Thx for the answer.

08-14-2009, 04:33 PM	#5
fX_	whats an agent?

08-14-2009, 04:36 PM	#6
Troll-Brain	Take a look inside the common.j file (inside the war3patch.mpq)

08-14-2009, 04:56 PM	#7
Rising_Dusk	Certain handles extend agent, which means that they can be saved inside of hashtable as an agent var. It's for compatibility with H2I/I2H systems is all, really.