player logout - odd bug
 

This is at the end of the control-npc in my gs2 enabled server.

It never logs the logout info into the server string serverr.radio_station1a. Why not?
It sends the echo to the rc correctly.

Also what is the command like SPC for a carriage return or line feed, to have a new line in something like a sendpm message?

Why are you using setstring() with a wacky combination of old and new strings? Why are you using setstring() at all?

Also: Click me to learn about "NL" and "TAB"!

I have used setstring for at least five years, and in the wiki, my code example above is how setstring should be formatted - as far as i can tell.

Perhaps I should go a step back to algorithm-speak, and if you don't want me using setstring, then you can tell me another way/method to do it in gs2.

NPC Code:

---

if (a player logs out)

  {

   if (the value of the player account is not null)

    {

      tell the rc that the player that just logged out, has in fact logged out

      bump the values of the server message that each player will see on screen so that the logins and logouts are sent to everyone

     with the last string, set the string to be read by the player's npcin a timeout loop to be updated with the account and nickname of the player that just logged out. 

    }

  }

---

so i ask again, why does the information get sent to the rc but not set into the string?

Also, NL is not working in sendpm as it should:

sendpm("test"@ NL @"123"); //causes an error: unexpected token: )
sendpm("test NL 123"); //shows the text NL in the string
sendpm("test "@"NL"@" 123"); //shows the text NL in the string

and i am out ot ideas of how else to use NL. help?

this.foo = "bar";

Okay, your first problem is that setstring is expecting two parameters of the "string" type. It looks as though you are trying to feed it two of the same type of argument and expect it to handle each one of them differently.

In other words, it looks like in:

you are trying to set a string named serverr.radio_station1e to the value of serverr.radio_station1d, right?

Assuming the above, your first argument's in reality going to be parsed for a value just like the second one is. You are inadvertantly setting a string with a name of the value of the first argument to the value of the second argument; in the above example, if serverr.radio_station1e was "pie", you would be setting a string named "pie" to whatever the value of serverr.radio_station1d.

Following that, the proper usage of setstring for this situation would be:

NPC Code:

---

setstring("serverr.radio_station1e",serverr.radio_  station1d);

---

However, I contend that this is all just a silly waste of time considering the fact that GS2 is designed with the awesome power of variants (see here for more information). Instead, you can simply:

NPC Code:

---

serverr.radio_station1e = serverr.radio_station1d;

---

^

Much like SPC, you would replace the @ with NL.

Thanks! The variant method of serverr.string1=serverr.string2 occured to me as a posibility, I appreciate the confirmation.

I will try that.

I also realized that two operators (such as @ and NL, or two NL's together) cannot be placed side by side. Much as one cannot do 1 + - 2, it is either 1 + 2 or 1 - 2.

NL is just a macro for @"/n"@
useful because it takes 2 characters rather than 6.

It has been discussed before that it is not a 'macro', it is an operator on it's own.

In that case it's a operator that acts like a macro.

No, it's an operator period.

It's a macro, like saying:
#DEFINE NL @"/n"@
#DEFINE SPC @" "@
#DEFINE TAB @"/t"@
It's a self concatenating new line in which it's required to have something preceding and proceeding it.

However, you could probably call it an operator just because it's in a scripting language.

EDIT: Wow, Stefan and I posted simultaneously.

wow, thanks for all the help everyone!

NL is a lot easier than looking up the ascii value of carriage return and line feed, as I used to have to do in Perl when I was the webmaster for the third largest newspaper in New England. I remember /n from javascript and C++ days, when I molded my mind into object oriented programming after 15 years of procedural programming. However, I don't recall what a new line was in Basic, but I have not actively written in Basic for many years.

That reminds me, I should start my documentation of how gs2 is object oriented sometime soon. Thanks again everyone!

#DEFINE NL @ "\n" @
#DEFINE SPC @ " " @
#DEFINE TAB @ "\t" @

Although, I do not believe it is as simple as using #DEFINE.

Let's think... there's the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, the Manchester Union, Foster's Daily Democrat... which one were you? If you were the Webmaster for Foster's I might have to shoot you because I want an RSS Feed damnit! <3

Oh God, I'm so out of practice with my kanji. Believe me, if it wasn't a macro, it would probably weigh more. Having multiple operators for different types of concatenation wouldn't really be good practice on the grounds of reusability and shortening code. In the end everything still has to be broken down into a subset that the clients and servers can understand. Stefan seems to have mastered the memory allocation for this stuff though.

There is a newspaper company that a couple years ago had a larger distribution spread than the Union Leader.

Something based in Portland maybe? Couldn't be the Portsmouth Herald or anything. Foster's seems to have all the local news down and a pretty wide spread. But seriously, what newspaper did you work for? And I doubt it's any VT paper, I'm up here and they have the Burlington Free Press and I've never even heard about it.

Lawrence Eagle-Tribune. Stopped working there a couple years ago, and when they purchased the north of Boston papers, their subscriber base surpassed the Union Leader. But recently they were bough by some place in Alabama or something.

haha, never heard of that paper.