Suggested commands?

[DarkShadows_Legend]

Originally posted by osrs


#v(playerscount)..?

I was giving an example of what could be done with the other command. That is why both descriptions is in a paragraph so to give a basic explanation and example.

[ForgottenLegacy]

I have another idea:

Have the string commands that we take for granted (replacestring, insertstring, deletestring, removestring) be usable for arrays. Like, have a 'replacearray' command, or 'insertarray' or 'deletearray' etc...

[Python523]

Originally posted by ForgottenLegacy
I have another idea:

Have the string commands that we take for granted (replacestring, insertstring, deletestring, removestring) be usable for arrays. Like, have a 'replacearray' command, or 'insertarray' or 'deletearray' etc...

in the new engine... and why would you need replacearray? oO var[index]=

[ForgottenLegacy]

Some commands that would be nice would be

NPC Code:

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setplayercomments account,"comments";

message #s(getcomments(account));

message #s(getban(account));

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This would be so we wold not have to give our GPs RC, so they can set the comments of a player via script, and resd them too.

[DustyPorViva]

I believe, since the new engine allows the RC to be scripted, that, along with ban and such, is all possible.

[MrGannondorf]

oo yes! scriptable rc interface!!!! thought I supose that makes my ingame-rc gui idea obsol33t.... oh well...

Anyhow, I don't think commands that 'support lazyness' are a bad thing, since it would make it alot faster to create stuff. Less to type sounds more like 'efficiency' to me, than 'lazyness'.

A command that would compleatly suport lazyness would be something like...

NPC Code:

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putnpc player[index].idea;

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Graal needs a mind reading variable.

[Python523]

Originally posted by MrGannondorf
Less to type sounds more like 'efficiency' to me, than 'lazyness'.

Less doesn't mean more efficient

[Lance]

Originally posted by MrGannondorf
Anyhow, I don't think commands that 'support lazyness' are a bad thing, since it would make it alot faster to create stuff. Less to type sounds more like 'efficiency' to me, than 'lazyness'.

Hi, you're not listening.

I could write a three-line script and an eighteen+ line script to do the same thing. The three-line script'd be preferable for conveniences's sake - it's not like it's any more efficient. If you want to make a complicated script into a single command, turn it into a function, and use it in your scripts. There's no sense in adding commands for simply-doable scripts, just because some scripters are too lazy to script it for themselves.

[DarkShadows_Legend]

Efficient Laziness.

replacearray var?? X.x

I was thinking of something like
myvar = {0,1,2,3,4};
deletearrvar 2;
then have myvar = {0,1,3,4};
... buuuuuut there's another way to do this I think. I haven't tested it out yet though so I'm not completely sure.

[Lance]

Originally posted by DarkShadows_Legend
Efficient Laziness.

replacearray var?? X.x

I was thinking of something like
myvar = {0,1,2,3,4};
deletearrvar 2;
then have myvar = {0,1,3,4};
... buuuuuut there's another way to do this I think. I haven't tested it out yet though so I'm not completely sure.

It's not really advisable to use things that you don't understand in your scripts.

[DarkShadows_Legend]

There is a way to do that though isn't there?

[Lance]

Originally posted by DarkShadows_Legend
There is a way to do that though isn't there?

Naturally. My best advice for any scripting problem is to think about just how such a command would work, and then script it.

[MrGannondorf]

o.o a lazy method. and its not to efficient on helping him get the command learned. oh, and fyi, thats sarcasm.

a command I'd like to see would be one to forcedownload files from remote servers.

forexample, lets say I have a cool mp3, thats just a *tad* to big to put on the ftp, or a pwa says we can't have it on the ftp, because graal doesn't want to be resposible for it being on thier ftp if it turns out to be copyrighted, or whatever reason you want that it would not be on the server's main ftp........

anyways, but its nice to have the file on the person's computer or in cache or something so it can be used.

so, one could script the npc to open a browser pointed at the url of the download... and hope that the player has the compitence to know where to put it, even after being told (wich most lack)...

or you could have it invisibly download behind the scenes, and come to the right place O.O

and if such a command does exist, then YATTA!

[Lance]

Originally posted by MrGannondorf
o.o a lazy method. and its not to efficient on helping him get the command learned. oh, and fyi, thats sarcasm.

Making sense is rather underrated these days, isn't it? When scripters speak of efficiency, they speak of script efficiency - how stupid the wannabe-scripter is has nothing to do with it.

[MrGannondorf]

wow, scripters seem to have thier own solcial clicks, too.
just a small point you guys seem to neglect though...

Just because a potentual comand could make what would be a more complex script into a simple script, doesn't garentee that the command would be ineficient for the game to process, etc.

What you guys make it seem like, weather its your own thickheadedness or the inability to effectivly make a point, is that because there is a chance the new command in question could be taxing on the game, the command should be rule out of all consideration altogether.

Or are you afriad it would make your scripts seem mundane and have to think of new stuff?

I think the amount of content for the server you can make with one's methods should also be calculated somehow into what makes it efficient: not just how well it runs.