help with function out of JASS vault. NOOBY ME

Well in the JASS vault I found a function named UnitLeap. Before getting it to even compile correctly I had to add another function by Dataangel (I think) called something like TimedSpecialEffect but thats not the problem. The problem is the UnitLeap function take 3 values namely:

unit whichUnit, integer fakeType, location targetLocation

I'm having problems with the second one. It appears to be an integer but its supposed to take a unit-type. In the object editor I looked for the raw values but they contain strings, so how do I put that?

ah,

Unit Types (amongst other things like abilityID's and more) are in fact "integer" values. Blizzard just created a special integer-type called "unit-type" for the GUI to be more user-friendly.

But basicly, you just pass the unit-type "ID" to the function in this manner: 'xxxx' ... that is, using single-quote, and put the 4 letter string inside it.

The reason this is possible, is, that the integer is a 32-bit number. And you can thus pack four 8-bit ASC-II symbols in it.

So... if the unit-type is: A000, you'd just call this function with: 'A000' where it expects the integer type.

Hope this helps

Cubasis

This helps A LOT. Thanks Cubasis.

But now a second problem: for the third take value of the function: a location. Since version 1.13 there is something called: Target point of ability being cast. In JASS it must resemble something like this: GetLocation( SpellLocation ) but i cant seem to find it in Blizzard.j (first time i opened that wicked file).

( I can solve this problem by assigning a variable to the point in GUI but its just to make things shorter and making less variables.)

It's called GetSpellTargetLoc().

Btw, why not just make it in GUI, then convert it to see how it's done?

Well... thats why I stated that I'm nooby, I really didnt think of that and its still so simple...and thanks