Strings
 

Ok I have been working diligently to create a Mailbox system for the Bravo Online playerhouses. I have EVERYTHING working great. But there is one thing I have come across which I knew would be a problem. So heres what I have come up with:
Suppose I have a message 30 characters long. Now lets say graal can only hold 10 per line in a say2. I can get how many lines I need by dividing 30 by 10. I get 3. Right? Right. Now this paragraph is in a string. How am I going to get a #b after every 10 characters for every line until maxlines (3) - 1. The last part is to keep an extra #b after the last line in a message.

If this were a variable I could do it, but I do not operate well with strings. Anyone have an idea?

Just loop through and insert them in before say2-ing it. I'm pretty sure that works now.

so I gotta work with the strings before hand.


so

NPC Code:

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setstring thiso.umessage,blahblahblahblah;

this.chars = strlen(thiso.umessage);

this.loops = int(this.chars/10);

for (a=0;a<this.loops;a++) {

 //insert #b stuff here?

}

---

I think this is how it should go but the problem is getting the #b into the string. I've been looking around and trying several different things but I can only think of setting a new string for every 10 chars. Inefficient I think.

all in one string? use #e(startindex,length,string) for the previous part of the string being examined, and another for the end, then setstring string,#s(partstr1) #b #s(partstr2)

Ah, the power of strings...


[Edit] Note: my syntax is probably wrong :\

v3 provides a few new options for this kind of thing, but currently #e is probably your best bet.

couldn't he use wraptext?

or am I missing something.

Yes.

Ok so I'll just #e the token and add #b where needed. Thx!

Why isn't

NPC Code:

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// NPC made by Rogue Shadow



if (playertouchsme) {

  wraptext 25,,#c;

  setstring temp,;

  for (i=0;i<tokenscount;i++)setstring temp,#s(temp)#t(i)#b;

  say2 #s(temp)#b;

}

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What he is looking for? This way it won't break up words?

Wow thats working but its not breaking it up. That #b causes every word to be on a new line. I dunno if its something faulty withe code or what but perhaps because I am running the script serverside? Its a class.

what is causing every word to be on a new lline? Show some code?

he copy and pasted, that's bad

Well since my other post disappeared. -.-

NPC Code:

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for (i=0;i<tokenscount;i++)setstring temp,#s(temp)#t(i)#b;

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That #b is causing each word to be on a new line. :/ I don't think the wraptext is working. Maybe because it's serverside or does that not matter with wraptext?

Maybe there would be an easier way if we knew how this script was made. Maybe you should try to use string lists in some sort of way...

Ok well I've figured it out. wraptext wont work the way I need it to be used. I'll use #e.

wraptext works with pixels I believe?

no... that can't be the problem works fine for me.. would for you to if you just put it in an npc in an emtpy level and said something and touched it.

wraptext2 does, wraptext doesn't

uhh, thats saying that for each token i gets + 1.., so the problem woudl be that for every word since the begining they are both equal, causing a #b for each word :) im so smart i figured that out by myself. ;P

try:

NPC Code:

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for (i=5;i<tokenscount;i+=5;)setstring temp,#s(temp)#t(i)#b;

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thats for 5 words a line.

The problem is wraptext doesnt work serverside and therefor was shortchanging the rest of the script.