-ally (color) alliances

im not good at jass, and i doubt it can be done in GUI, how would i make it (in less then 10 triggers) so when a player (1-4 only) says -ally (color) (5-12 only)they ally
i can incorperate dialogue boxes myself (unless its jass, that may cause a problem)

but this has really stumped me, i dont want to waste like 90 triggers doin this... i would be most greatful for any help

how about getting the number from the entered chatstring and converting that number to a player?

Just test the substing(event response - entered chat string, 7, 16) against a list of colours (using either a variable array and a loop, or just if/then/else).

Colours are an ugly way to do it, I suggest using player indices, that was you can use the entry directly within your ally change function

But colours are a lot easier for players to type, rather than player numbers (which can be gotten wrong...which is especially bad with kick functions).

mmmm how would i set up the loop, and why is it 7, 16 and not 5, 12 for players 5-12 (yellow-brown), did you have some special reasoning??

now that i think about it, im COMPLETELY confused...
could you show me how it would look in the editor, and explain it?

Well, that's just to define which part of the string it wants, 7-16 would get the colours.

In map initialisation, set a variable array, colours, with a size of 12, to the right string for each variable in the array:

set colours[1] = red
...
set colours[12] = brown

Then make this trigger:

Event:

Player 1 enters a chat string containing -ally as a substring.
Player 2 enters a chat string containing -ally as a substring.
Player 3 enters a chat string containing -ally as a substring.
Player 4 enters a chat string containing -ally as a substring.

Condition:

substring(entered chat string, 1, 5) is equal to "-ally"

Event:

for each loop integer A 5 to 12:
loop
if colours[integer A] is equal to substring(entered chat string, 7, 16)
then: (INSERT ALLY COMMAND)
else: game - display to triggering player "You cannot ally with that player."

i feel dumb now, but i understand... its exactly what i thaught at first, but then i said wait WHAA?? if this works your a god
and im absolutely positively sure it will
one problem, what comparison did you use to get colours[interger A] because im having trouble finding it... unless its the player color comparison, but on that i cant get substring (entered chatstring, 7, 16)