| 05-17-2006, 11:18 PM | #1 |
Teaching myself JASS, with the help of JassCraft and Vexorian's first JASS tutorial. I have been replacing all my old map's gui triggers with jass, to get some exp and to possibly enhance it some. I was just wondering if I could define something like my own native :  JASS:TextToPlayer takes player toPlayer, string playertext returns nothing Instead of using the native "DisplayTextToPlayer", or making ^that^ use the native, turning it to a useless function. Well, I guess this whole thing is useless, but I'm like that... Yes, I am lazy and want to reduce the number of typed characters by like 5. Also, it would be cool to define my own "natives". Also: Why are real x and real y arguments in "DisplayTextToPlayer"? |
| 05-17-2006, 11:26 PM | #2 |
Hmm..how i understand your problem it something like this....you are to lazy to write that native....and there is another BJ function(useless function) who is called JASS:BJDebugMsg takes string text returns nothing shorter call and just writes (text) for all players |
| 05-17-2006, 11:31 PM | #3 |
As far as I know, you can't make your own natives, unless you use xttoc's jAPI, but that is probably too much work for a small thing like this. You can just create a function that passes the values to the native, and place the function in top of your map's custom script section. Then you can all it everywhere below, even though it is kind of a bad idea, as it will make your map run slower. In my opinion, it would be better to type 5 more characters. But if you want to make it, the function should look like this: JASS:function TextToPlayer takes player toPlayer, string playertext returns nothing call DisplayTextToPlayer(toPlayer, 0, 0, playertext) endfunction The coordinates are used for the position of the text, they should always be 0, 0 for the normal position. An example of a function that uses this is SimError. |
| 05-18-2006, 12:06 AM | #4 |
| 05-18-2006, 05:48 AM | #5 |