Castle Paradox

JSH357 · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 1705

This is more of a question for the OHR programmers.

Will there ever be any implementation of a switch/case statement (C++ one is the only one I'm familiar with)? It would make several things a LOT easier for me, fo sho. If not--I'm just curious--why wouldn't it be implementable?

TMC · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:00 pm Post subject:

There already is. As example, here's a script from Eldardeen:

JSH357 · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 1705

What the heck? When did this come in?

TMC · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:23 pm Post subject:

11th June 2006.

I actually implemented it before hasta-la-qb was released, in the wip branch. Hasta-la-qb forked from tirgoviste, missing out on any new features since then. (Incidently, this is also the reason hasta was so buggy: pretty much none of the devs ever used it, and also the reason Ubersetzung has so many new features). And that's why you've been missing out for so many years.
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Moogle1 · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:52 pm Post subject:

This is JSH, who didn't know you could right-click or press ENTER to eyedrop a color.

Yes, I'm still going to be laughing about that for awhile yet.
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JSH357 · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 1705

Hey, where is eyedropping documented? I'd say I had an excuse! It isn't obvious in CUSTOM, anyway. The switch statements weren't documented either.

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:30 pm Post subject:

http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/index.php/Making_Walkabout_Graphics.html
http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/docs/plotdict.xml#about-switch

Where can we move and/or duplicate this stuff to make it easier to find?

JSH357 · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 1705

Well the eyedrop was a feature most people probably knew about but I, for some reason, never noticed. (You wouldn't believe all the time I wasted trying to guess which colors I had been using) I guess I never noticed it since it's a selectable tool in MS Paint but a keyboard tool in CUSTOM. (I rarely, if ever, discover keyboard functions on my own with no visual representation)

A lot of the nightly stuff is just totally hard to find. I can't find switches in the plotdictionary in my OHR folder, but as long as they're there in the new one, it shouldn't be a problem.

msw188 · Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 1041

Heh heh, I didn't know about the CTRL+SPACE to bring up a text character picker for a while. I wasted so much time as well holding down alt and pressing all of the keys until I found the special character I wanted.
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TwinHamster · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:51 am Post subject:

Camdog · Joined: 08 Aug 2003 Posts: 606

I looked for the switch statement on the wiki (http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/index.php/Plotscripting_Dictionary.html#Flow_Control).

Seems like the switch statement should be under the flow control heading.

In fact... hey! That's a wiki! I'll just go ahead and do that myself.

TMC · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:54 pm Post subject:

The OHR is (or was, anyway) documented primarily in whatsnew. If you look in there, you'll find all of these things. But that's unrealistic. The HOWTO is the real documentation, but it doesn't cover everything. You'll find all the controls to the sprite and map editors there.

Yeah, the truth is, not everything is well documented. But things have greatly improved since the wiki. We still really need to finish this: 'Menu:Main Menu'. It'll document all of Custom, replacing the need to wade through the HOWTO. But there's just so much to write.

Camdog · Joined: 08 Aug 2003 Posts: 606

Well, that's cool. I just cut and pasted from the plotscript dictionary.