What did i miss?

11-22-2007, 01:40 AM	#1
Joker	Its been 4 months since I've visited the forums or touch the WE. Can I get a brief highlight of the new "discoveries"? I.E. Are structs still the best solution for timers? Any other alternatives to handles?

11-22-2007, 01:42 AM	#2
Anopob	I believe so, just NewGen and maybe some other tools/resources.

11-22-2007, 06:51 AM	#3
Pyrogasm	Cohadar has been going crazy with his "ABC" system. It seems to be quite the rage.

11-22-2007, 07:11 AM	#4
cohadar	Now that you mentioned it I have ABC version for Mac, you interested?

11-22-2007, 07:24 AM

Earth-Fury

Quote:

Originally Posted by Joker

Its been 4 months since I've visited the forums or touch the WE. Can I get a brief highlight of the new "discoveries"? I.E. Are structs still the best solution for timers? Any other alternatives to handles?

.. .structs are not a solution for attatching to timers, unless you do something like vex's timelib or whatever he called it. Structs simply allow you to attatch a single native type (integer) which can be used to hold more than a single value as well as lacking I2H calls.

Alternatives to handles...? i hope to god you mean HandleVars, and if so, there are alternatives. You could use HandleVars to store structs on handles, but there are better solutions, like grim's data system:
http://wc3campaigns.net/pastebint.ph...3ffd04408ae7e1

As for new discoveries... in the past 4 months? Not many if any significant ones i can think of.

11-22-2007, 07:35 AM

Pyrogasm

Quote:

Originally Posted by cohadar

Now that you mentioned it I have ABC version for Mac, you interested?

I don't think it would be hard to "make" a version of ABC for Macs. You simply need to make a fuckload of variables in the Variable Editor and then change all references of them in the system to include a "udg_" prefix.

Second, even if I wanted to use your ABC system... I can't use structs anyway so there's no point!

Edit: I guess I could use it instead of CSData for attaching some dynamic arrays... but that still doesn't make too much sense.

11-22-2007, 07:45 AM	#7
cohadar	You got stuck with external jass compiler I guess? You really need to get a PC.

11-22-2007, 08:04 AM	#8
Pyrogasm	Running JASSHelper on my Virtual Machine is apparently bugged. Don't know why, but it just spits errors out when parsing the code.

11-22-2007, 03:10 PM

Joker

Quote:

Originally Posted by Earth-Fury

Thx, but I have questions about Grim's data system.

JASS:

struct Unit
    unit u
endstruct

function MyCallback takes integer tag returns boolean
    call KillUnit(Unit(tag).u)
    return false // Return true to repeat the timer, false to not.
endfunction

function MyFunction takes nothing returns nothing
    local Unit u = Unit.create()
    set u.u = CreateUnit(...)

    // Execute the callback function in 10 seconds, passing the integer to it as a paramiter.
    call TimedEvent(10.0, integer(u), Callback.MyCallback)
endfunction

JASS:

//! runtextmacro DataDeclare("Data","integer")

struct Example
    integer value
endstruct

function B takes unit u returns nothing
    local Example e = GetData(u)
    local integer i = e.value
    // ...
endfunction

function A takes nothing returns nothing
    local unit u = CreateUnit(...)
    call SetData(u, integer(Example.create()))
    call B(u)
endfunction

are you just naming your structs "units"? Its confusing me a bit

11-22-2007, 03:38 PM	#10
grim001	yes he just named the struct Unit which was a but confusing. Should be called "UnitPointer" or something.

11-22-2007, 07:03 PM	#11
PitzerMike	You're not too late for the little school of ABC at least.

11-22-2007, 07:58 PM	#12
cohadar	I give "Certified JASS Pro" degree after you graduate. That is IF you graduate.

11-22-2007, 10:28 PM	#13
Joker	What is PUI?

11-22-2007, 10:30 PM	#14
cohadar	Well read the thread and see. Download the map and try. Try to use and learn.