Graal Forums - Shared functions pack

I'm happy to introduce the new clientside shared functions pack. It's a clientside script added to players when they log into Graal, providing new public functions that are available for all servers to use. These are general functions that you might just find handy to speed the scripting process up. It also enables us to provide some new functions quickly without client updates.

Currently the pack just provides a few odd functions, however more will become available in due course. If you have some clientside functions or amendments to existing functions (for instance, new encryption algorithms) that you feel people may benefit from and don't mind sharing, send me them in a forum PM and I'll check them over. If suitable, they might find themselves in this function pack. :) Similarly if you have any ideas, suggestions or bug reports, just let me know or post them here.

Functions

shared.getfontzoom(size) (contributed by Xzirox)
Returns the font zoom depending upon the text size that is set in the player's F3 options.

shared.hextorgb(string) (contributed by Tig)
Converts the RGB-format hex string into an array of {red, green, blue} values. For instance, "#FF0000" comes out as {1, 0, 0}.

PHP Code:


		
			
shared.hextorgb("#FA32BF");

shared.rgbtohex(red, green, blue) (contributed by Tig)
Converts the RGB into an RGB-format hex string. Essentially the reverse of the above function.

PHP Code:


		
			
shared.rgbtohex(1, 0.4, 0.7);

shared.encrypt(algorithm, string, key)
Encrypts the string with the given key. There are two algorithms available: ENC_SIMPLE and ENC_SIMPLE_NOBASE64. The first is basically the simple encryption algorithm that I posted a while ago, while the second is the same algorithm but without the base64 conversion (so you get less overhead but stranger output characters at times).

PHP Code:


		
			
temp.encrypted = shared.encrypt(ENC_SIMPLE, "test", "foo");

shared.decrypt(algorithm, string, key)
Decrypts in exactly the same way that the encryption function above works. Provide the encrypted data as the "string", and use the same key to decrypt.

PHP Code:


		
			
temp.encrypted = shared.encrypt(ENC_SIMPLE, "test", "foo");
temp.decrypted = shared.decrypt(ENC_SIMPLE, temp.encrypted, "foo");

shared.chat(chat text)
Sets the player's chat text using the privileged setchat function. This means that the chat text works exactly like the chatbar. It interprets things like "showscriptstats" but is set to strip out toalls and toguilds.

PHP Code:


		
			
shared.chat("showscriptstats");

shared.tan(a)
Provides the missing trigonometry tan() function.

shared.getimgcenter(image name)
Returns an array of {x, y} where the X and Y values correspond to the center of the image relative from the top left of the image.

PHP Code:


		
			
shared.getimgcenter("block.png");

shared.getdisplayname()
Returns a friendly way of referring to the player on-screen. Guest users will see "Guest User", otherwise the community name/account name are returned instead.

shared.pmswaiting()
Returns an array of player objects from whom there is a PM waiting to be read. This includes external players from other servers.

PHP Code:


		
			
for (temp.pl: shared.pmswaiting())
{
  //
}

shared.roundto(value, places)
Rounds the value to the given number of places.

PHP Code:


		
			
shared.roundto(3.14, 0.1);

Functions as of 20080826

shared.stringmerge(string, chars[])
Returns a reformatted string stripping whitespaces and any other single characters provided in the chars array.

PHP Code:


		
			
shared.stringmerge("One, two!", {",", "!"});

shared.setconstants_showstats()
Sets globally scoped variables clientside for showstats to replace 0x? values for easier script comprehension (STATS_ASD, STATS_ICONS, STATS_RUPEES, STATS_BOMBS, STATS_ARROWS, STATS_HEARTS, STATS_AP, STATS_MP, STATS_MINIMAP, STATS_INVENTORYNPCS, STATS_PLAYERS, STATS_RIGHTCLICK_PROFILE).

PHP Code:


		
			
shared.setconstants_showstats();
showstats(allstats - STATS_BOMBS - STATS_ARROWS);

A script only needs to run shared.setconstants_showstats() once on the clientside for this to be effective.

shared.setconstants_enablefeatures()
Sets globally scoped variables clientside for enablefeatures to replace 0x? values for easier script comprehension (EF_KEY_M, EF_KEY_P, EF_KEY_Q, EF_KEY_R, EF_KEY_SA, EF_KEY_SD, EF_KEY_TAB, EF_CHATTEXT, EF_HEARTSDISPLAY, EF_NICKNAMES, EF_MINIMAP_PMICONS, EF_RIGHTCLICK_PROFILE, EF_EMOTICONS, EF_KEY_ALT5, EF_KEY_ALT89, EF_F2OUTPUT).

PHP Code:


		
			
shared.setconstants_enablefeatures();
enablefeatures(allfeatures - EF_CHATTEXT - EF_NICKNAMES);

A script only needs to run shared.setconstants_enablefeatures() once on the clientside for this to be effective.

Functions as of 20090530

shared.getAlignmentColor(ap)
Returns an array of {red, green, blue} for the given AP color, allowing you to recreate the default nickname colors.

PHP Code:


		
			
shared.getAlignmentColor(player.ap);

shared.getAlignmentShadowColor(red, green, blue)
Returns an array of {red, green, blue} for the shadow of the given color, allowing you to recreate the default nickname shadows.

PHP Code:


		
			
shared.getAlignmentShadowColor(0.75, 0.1, 0.3);

shared.replacetext(string, search, replace) (contributed by Dusty)
Returns a string. Searches string for search and replaces it with replace.

shared.getSharedFunctions
Returns an array of functions provided by the shared function pack.

Function added Jan 05, 2010

shared.adminMessage(text)
Opens an admin message window that will stay on the player's screen even after serverwarping until the player closes the window.
See: http://forums.graalonline.com/forums...98#post1548498

PHP Code:


		
			
shared.adminMessage("You have been disconnected by Tig");