My Rubbish Trivia Script (help)

[baseman101]

I'm in the process of developing a trivia system, but please excuse my bad code. I am very new to GS2.

PHP Code:

//#CLIENTSIDE
function onCreated() {
this.x += 0.5;
}
function showTriviaGUI() {
new GuiWindowCtrl("EventTrivia_Window1") {
    profile = GuiBlueWindowProfile;
    style = $pref::Video::defaultguistyle;
    clientrelative = true;
    clientextent = "384,164";

    canmaximize = false;
    canminimize = false;
    canmove = true;
    canclose = false;
    canresize = true;
    closequery = false;
    destroyonhide = false;
    text = "Trivia";
    x = 288;
    y = 173;

    new GuiTextCtrl("EventTrivia_Text1") {
      profile = GuiBlueTextProfile;
      height = 20;
      text = "Please fill out the  text boxes.";
      width = 167;
      x = 7;
    }
    new GuiTextEditCtrl("EventTrivia_TextEdit1") {
      profile = GuiBlueTextEditProfile;
      height = 20;
      width = 300;
      x = 84;
      y = 37;
    }
    new GuiTextCtrl("EventTrivia_Text2") {
      profile = GuiBlueTextProfile;
      height = 20;
      text = "Question";
      width = 53;
      y = 34;
    }
    new GuiTextCtrl("EventTrivia_Text3") {
      profile = GuiBlueTextProfile;
      height = 20;
      text = "Answer";
      width = 42;
      y = 74;
    }
    new GuiTextEditCtrl("EventTrivia_TextEdit2") {
      profile = GuiBlueTextEditProfile;
      height = 20;
      width = 300;
      x = 84;
      y = 77;
    }
    new GuiButtonCtrl("EventTrivia_Button1") {
      profile = GuiBlueButtonProfile;
      text = "Submit Quesiton";
      width = 385;
      y = 134;
    }
  }
}

function onPlayerChats() {
  if (player.chat=="/trivia" && player.guild=="Events Team") {
    showTriviaGUI();
  }
}
function EventTrivia_Button1.onAction() {
  temp.question = EventTrivia_TextEdit1.text;
  temp.answer = EventTrivia_TextEdit2.text;
  showtext(201, 29.5, 11, "Arial", "","Last Winner");
  setimgpart("head207.png",0,60,32,32);
  changeimgzoom 201,.7;
} 


Here are my questions as followed:

1. I have a variable for the answer (temp.answer) already. I don't know how to do the rest, for finding the player's answer.
2. I'm trying to find a way to make a string into an array, like you can in PHP with explode();. Is there a GS2 alternative?
3. How do I set an image part, but place the image part in a certain location on the level? setimgpart() will just set the NPC's picture to the image, which I don't want.

Thanks in advanced.

[cbk1994]

I can't post a reply here because of Incapsula, and I'm not going to waste my time trying to figure out which part of my post is causing it to be rejected. If you're reading this, Stefan, this stuff is absolutely ridiculous.

My post is available here.

[xXziroXx]

@cbk1994 does he really need to communicate with other players for something like this...? Just have the Event Team member run everything clientsided, and grab other players chat using onRemotePlayerChats() event.

[BlueMelon]

Ontop of what cbk1994 posted, its also good practice to apply the notions in this thread.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by xXziroXx

@cbk1994 does he really need to communicate with other players for something like this...? Just have the Event Team member run everything clientsided, and grab other players chat using onRemotePlayerChats() event.

I would say so. Inevitably there are situations where the events team member will lag out or want to have multiple ETs hosting the event at once or other weird edge cases. You're right that this kind of thing can be handled clientside but I think events like this really should be done serverside.

(not to mention that things like showing text clientside to other players is very unreliable and will cause a lot of problems—so he'll have to do that via some method involving serverside anyway)

[baseman101]

Thanks for the help. I'll keep this in mind when doing events in the future.

[baseman101]

Hey, thanks for your consideration! I've done some triggers once I've got a hold of them, and here's my current code. The current problem is that it doesn't resister if someone wins. I know the variable gets sent, because I've added this.chat=temp.answer previously from serverside. Also, I'm going to add the tokenize function later once I get the main idea down. Sorry, I've tried looking for scripting resources, but no ado. Thank you!

PHP Code:

function onCreated() {
  setshape( 1, 32, 32 );
  setimg( "zoneiphone_tv.png" );
}

function onActionTrivia(temp.question,temp.answer) {
  showtext(198, 21.6, 17.5, "Arial", "","Q: " @ temp.question);
  changeimgzoom 198,.8;
  onTimeout(temp.answer); //calls the timeout function with the temp.answer variable
}
function onTimeout(temp.answer) {
  for(temp.pl : allplayers) { //gets player in the level
    if(temp.pl.level.name != "zone_event-trivia.nw") continue; //doesn't count players outside this level
    if(temp.pl == temp.answer) { //checks if someone wins the event
      showtext(198, 21.6, 17.5, "Arial", "",temp.pl.nick @ " has won!");
    }
  }
  setTimer(0.5); //loops it
}
//#CLIENTSIDE
function onPlayerChats() {
  if (player.chat=="/trivia" && player.guild=="Events Team") {
    showTriviaGUI();
  }
}
function showTriviaGUI() {
    new GuiWindowCtrl("EventTrivia_Window1") {
    profile = GuiBlueWindowProfile;
    style = $pref::Video::defaultguistyle;
    clientrelative = true;
    clientextent = "384,164";

    canmaximize = false;
    canminimize = false;
    canmove = true;
    canclose = false;
    canresize = true;
    closequery = false;
    destroyonhide = false;
    text = "Trivia";
    x = 288;
    y = 173;
    new GuiTextCtrl("EventTrivia_Text1") {
      profile = GuiBlueTextProfile;
      height = 20;
      text = "Please fill out the  text boxes.";
      width = 167;
      x = 7;
    }
    new GuiTextEditCtrl("EventTrivia_TextEdit1") {
      profile = GuiBlueTextEditProfile;
      height = 20;
      width = 300;
      x = 84;
      y = 37;
    }
    new GuiTextCtrl("EventTrivia_Text2") {
      profile = GuiBlueTextProfile;
      height = 20;
      text = "Question";
      width = 53;
      y = 34;
    }
    new GuiTextCtrl("EventTrivia_Text3") {
      profile = GuiBlueTextProfile;
      height = 20;
      text = "Answer";
      width = 42;
      y = 74;
    }
    new GuiTextEditCtrl("EventTrivia_TextEdit2") {
      profile = GuiBlueTextEditProfile;
      height = 20;
      width = 300;
      x = 84;
      y = 77;
    }
    new GuiButtonCtrl("EventTrivia_Button1") {
      profile = GuiBlueButtonProfile;
      text = "Submit Quesiton";
      width = 385;
      y = 134;
    }
  }
}
function EventTrivia_Button1.onAction() {
  temp.question = EventTrivia_TextEdit1.text;
  temp.answer = EventTrivia_TextEdit2.text;
  EventTrivia_Window1.destroy();
  temp.x = (GraalControl.width - width) / 2; //attempt to make the trivia box half of the screen width. help please?
  triggeraction(this.x,this.y,"Trivia",temp.question,temp.answer); //triggers the server
} 


[cbk1994]

The first thing you need to do is store the answer in a variable:

PHP Code:

function onActionTrivia(temp.question,temp.answer) {
  if (player.guild != "Events Team") { // make sure they're allowed to host
    return;
  }
  
  showtext(198, 21.6, 17.5, "Arial", "","Q: " @ temp.question);
  changeimgzoom(198, .8);
  this.answer = temp.answer.trim(); // store the answer
} 


You don't need a timeout here; since this is a level NPC, you can just use onPlayerChats serverside:

PHP Code:

function onPlayerChats() {
  if (player.chat.trim() == this.answer && this.answer != null) {
    // the player won!
    showtext(198, 21.6, 17.5, "Arial", "", player.nick @ " has won!");
    
    // reset the answer so nobody else can win this round
    this.answer = null;
  }
} 


So, your serverside code can be pretty simple:

PHP Code:

function onCreated() {
  setshape( 1, 32, 32 );
  setimg( "zoneiphone_tv.png" );
}

function onActionTrivia(temp.question,temp.answer) {
  if (player.guild != "Events Team") { // make sure they're allowed to host
    return;
  }
  
  showtext(198, 21.6, 17.5, "Arial", "","Q: " @ temp.question);
  changeimgzoom(198, .8);
  this.answer = temp.answer.trim(); // store the answer
}

function onPlayerChats() {
  if (player.chat.trim() == this.answer && this.answer != null) {
    // the player won!
    showtext(198, 21.6, 17.5, "Arial", "", player.nick @ " has won!");
    
    // reset the answer so nobody else can win this round
    this.answer = null;
  }
} 


[baseman101]

Many thanks. I did not know what was wrong. Thank you

I think that's all the help I need.