Is there a way to detect images shown to player?

07-20-2010, 02:30 PM	#1
Darkrider	I want to know if there is a way to detect if an specific type of image is being shown to a player. For example units in minimap or that kind of images EDIT: Isn't it possible with handles?

07-20-2010, 11:57 PM	#2
DioD	if you show image it is shown... just log your code's actions.

07-21-2010, 11:38 AM	#3
Darkrider	but i want to detect a unit's icon if it is shown

07-21-2010, 01:06 PM	#4
Fledermaus	IsUnitVisible(whichUnit, whichPlayer)? Should work if all the units in the game have a minimap dot. Otherwise that + a check for unit type.

07-21-2010, 02:21 PM	#5
Darkrider	actually i want to combine that with a "minimap image loaded" thingy. Thats why i need to know if there is a way to know if an image is being shown to some localplayer :/

07-21-2010, 04:02 PM	#6
Bribe	What the heck?

07-21-2010, 04:15 PM	#7
Fledermaus	Yeah seriously, I don't get it.

07-21-2010, 05:19 PM	#8
Darkrider	i wan to know if there is a way to detect if an image is currently being displayed to a player. Any image, like for instance hero icons or unit icons (its just en example i don't want those :P)

07-21-2010, 05:27 PM	#9
Fledermaus	Be more specific with the term "image". Do you mean the handle type image, or something completely different?

07-21-2010, 06:23 PM	#10
DioD	for image - log your own actions for ingame TGA-BLP noooooooo nooooooo noooooo

07-21-2010, 09:10 PM

#11

Ammorth

certain actions cause hero and unit icons to display for a player (the player owns a hero, or there is an idle unit with the worker classification). Both of these can be tracked via triggers, so it is possible to "detect" when an "image" is shown to a player. However, each "image" has its only method of detection, and therefore requires different methods. There is no general detection function.

I am also lost as well. Please be specific and explain what you want the end result to be. No one here is going to steal your ideas and make a map/system out of it.

07-21-2010, 10:06 PM

#12

TKF

Quote:

Originally Posted by Darkrider

I want to know if there is a way to detect if an specific type of image is being shown to a player. For example units in minimap or that kind of images

EDIT: Isn't it possible with handles?

Afaik that is not possible. Instead store booleans when the triggers shows the images only way of detecting as I know of (if the images shown to players is triggered, not game default created).

Other than that I don't know.

07-22-2010, 02:26 AM	#13
DioD	its is not possible, ever with database.

07-22-2010, 01:33 PM

#14

Darkrider

the only way i can explain this is with an example :/

I want to know if a "game default image" like hero minimap icon is currently being shown to some player. I know that there is no GUI for this, but i don't know JASS functions that might help me here.

I thought that, perhaps, there is some way to assign a handle to the hero mini-map icon when it is created or something... I know this sounds kind of weird but by the time i explain what i want to do, nobody is gonna care any longer :/

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07-22-2010, 01:57 PM	#15
Anitarf	What you want to do is not possible as far as I know. Try this instead.