Trouble With Strlen()

[protagonist]

Originally posted by Tseng


Uh. Do you even know what you're talking about?

Do you even know what the guy's trying to do?

He's trying to use strlen to return a value.

Using a for loop does not help him learn to use strlen.

And the fact that everyone else tells you to do for loops has absolutely nothing to do with this situation. Sorry, just had to complain about that.

Well, that was mean, I already admitted my mistake.
I was thinking about sarraylen, not strlen.

[Tseng]

Originally posted by wonderboysp2p
omg i can just Align it?????

To the very best of my knowledge, yes. It requires putting a letter in between the @ signs of the showimg, and I believe is explained in one of the newfeatures.txts (though I may be wrong about it being in there- it's been a while since I looked for image-showing clarifications). As it happens, I haven't had an occasion to align something to the right, so I do not know the letter off the top of my head (although, the logical guess is r). If you can't find it, I'll have access to my other computer in a couple of hours, and can find it then.

Originally posted by protagonist



Well, that was mean, I already admitted my mistake.
I was thinking about sarraylen, not strlen.

Perhaps it was mean, but he was trying to learn, and you were giving him incorrect information. Naturally, I will be very critical of cases like that, because when people are trying to learn, receive incorrect information, and it is not corrected, they not only learn wrong, but in some cases their own ignorance will prevent them from ever learning their way is wrong. I dealt with a case like this recently, in which a scripter not only refused to acknowledge something stefan had explained about triggeractions, but deleted a script of several hours work, as well as a few weeks' worth of that script's running and logging.

[protagonist]

Yes, I didn't have the right command. But Kaimetsu pointed it out already, and I made it clear I was mistaken.

[KainM0rbid]

If you look in newfeatures2003.txt you will notice there is a nice new handy variable added called textwidth
so instead of using strlen() I would suggest using textwidth

NPC Code:

---

textwidth(size,font,style,text)

---

Makes things easier and more accurate than guessing a formula to get the width of your text

---Kain Morbid

[wonderboysp2p]

umm... i dont think anyone has really helped solved my problem...

[osrs]

Originally posted by wonderboysp2p
umm... i dont think anyone has really helped solved my problem...

Ask Tseng,he is the best scripter of the world. ^_^

[KainM0rbid]

NPC Code:

---

if (created) {

  timeout=.05;

}

if (timeout) {

  timeout=.05;

  setstring message2,This is NOT a Test;

  showimg 2,@@b@#s(client.message2),screenwidth-strlen(#s(message2))*8,screenheight-21;

  changeimgvis 2,4;

}

---

I have bolded what you forgot in your script.
though I do suggest using text width instead of strlen()*8 seeing as how textwidth is MUCH more accurate.

---Kain Morbid

[wonderboysp2p]

yea kain i had gotten that part figured out but it turns out that *8 only works when each letter in message2 is lower case... numbers and CAPS screw up the placement.. which is why i want to know what tseng was talking about when he said i can probably align things to the right

[Kaimetsu]

It doesn't work at all when the font is not monospaced. Anyway:

Firstly, use showtext instead of showimg. Secondly, use an 'r' in the style argument. If you don't understand, read newfeatures.txt.

[wonderboysp2p]

alright thanks kai
i used showimg because im just more used to showimg @@@ but yea ok show text and r in style arguement all so simple ^_^

[Projectshifter]

lol, showtext, I can't stand that!
sarraylen() needs a for loop why? Sarraylen you don't need #s for, and it checks the amount of arrays in it rather than it's length x-x
---Shifter

[Kaimetsu]

Originally posted by Projectshifter
lol, showtext, I can't stand that!

¬_¬

[wonderboysp2p]

cmon kai you cant deny that after using showimg @@@ for a while, it's hard to switch over to a new command

[Kaimetsu]

Originally posted by wonderboysp2p
cmon kai you cant deny that after using showimg @@@ for a while, it's hard to switch over to a new command

Uh, no it isn't. I never used showimg to display text after showtext was released.