Weird Error

02-05-2008, 03:38 AM

Okay, basically I am making a Quest system.

Everything is working fine except for one part of the system, in which I tried to make a method to detect which QuestSlot a particular named quest is in. However, I get a syntax error when I try to compile.

The system allows each player to have a unique QuestLog (called PQuest). Each QuestLog can contain up to 3 quests.

Basically Slot[0], Slot[1], and Slot[2] can all hold a quest, which is shown in the AddQuest method (this works fine and was tested ingame).

What I want to be able to do is to check and see if a person already has a quest based on the name of the quest. It should work in theory but I am getting a compile error on it:

"s___QuestLog_Slot[s__QuestLog_Slot[this]+i] is not of a type that allows . syntax".

I am guessing that it is not able to access the data using Slot[number].QD.name for some reason. Anyone have any ideas to make it be able to get that information? Thanks in advance!

THE PROBLEM METHOD:

JASS:

method GetQuestSlot takes string QuestName returns integer
            local integer i = 0
            loop
                exitwhen i == 3
                if (.Slot[i].QD.name == QuestName) then
                    return i
                    exitwhen true
                else
                    set i=i+1
                endif
            endloop
        endmethod

THE ENTIRE LIBRARY FOR THE SYSTEM

JASS:

library QuestStuff

globals
    QuestLog array PQuests
endglobals

    struct QuestLog
        integer array Slot[3]
        method AddQuest takes Quest q, player p returns nothing
            local integer i = 0
            loop
                exitwhen i == 3
                if (.Slot[i] <= 0) then
                    set .Slot[i] = q
                    call DisplayTextToPlayer(p,0.0,0.0,"|CFF00FF00Quest Added in Slot:|R " +I2S(i))
                    exitwhen true
                else
                    set i=i+1
                endif
            endloop
        endmethod
        method GetQuestSlot takes string QuestName returns integer
            local integer i = 0
            loop
                exitwhen i == 3
                if (.Slot[i].QD.name == QuestName) then
                    return i
                    exitwhen true
                else
                    set i=i+1
                endif
            endloop
        endmethod
    endstruct   
    struct Quest
        Quest_Data QD
    endstruct
    interface Quest_Data
        string name
        string description
        integer goldreward
        integer itemreward
        method onFinish takes Quest q, player p returns nothing defaults nothing
        method onStart takes Quest q, player p returns nothing defaults nothing
    endinterface
    
    struct MyQuest extends Quest_Data
        string name = "My Quest"
        string description = "hey guys did this work?"
        integer goldreward = 200
        method onFinish takes Quest q, player p returns nothing
            call DisplayTextToPlayer(p,0.0,0.0,"You have completed: "+this.name)
            call q.destroy()
        endmethod
    endstruct
    
endlibrary