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Health and Experience and Bars, oh my!

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Posted by Caelen (81 posts) bio

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Thu 10 Feb 2011 08:45 PM (UTC)

Amended on Thu 10 Feb 2011 08:48 PM (UTC) by Caelen

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I took a shot at combining the health and experience bar plugins into a single, one-window plugin. So far, I have met with a lot of success! I have, however, hit one snag. I can't figure out how to separate the draw_the_bars function in a way that will let me draw the hp/sp/ep gauges whenever I get the prompt, while also drawing the experience/money gauges whenever I use the commands that display my XP and CP. With no prompt configuration available, I can't use the easy route of a single trigger. So! I made a lot of triggers. The triggers work, they all return the values I need, and the draw_the_bars function is sending the right information to the DoGauge function. How do I separate it all out to redraw the xp/cp bars without erasing the hp/sp/ep bars?

Here are a couple snips from my script.
These triggers grab the values I need to level.


  <trigger
   enabled="y"
   match="^LEVEL (\d+) ADVANCEMENT$"
   regexp="y"
   script="do_prompt_level"
   sequence="100"
  >
  </trigger>
  <trigger
   enabled="y"
   match="^Advancement will cost (\d+) experience and (\d+) coppers\.$"
   regexp="y"
   script="do_prompt_cost"
   sequence="100"
  >
  </trigger>
  <trigger
   enabled="y"
   match="^You will need (\d+) more experience and (\d+) more coppers\.$"
   regexp="y"
   script="do_prompt_tnl"
   sequence="100"
  >
  </trigger>

These functions store the values.


function do_prompt_level (name, line, wildcards)

  next_level = tonumber (wildcards [1])
  level = next_level - 1
  
end -- do_prompt_level

function do_prompt_cost (name, line, wildcards)

  max_xp = tonumber (wildcards [1])
  max_cp = tonumber (wildcards [2])
  
end -- do_prompt_cost

function do_prompt_tnl (name, line, wildcards)

  tnl_xp = tonumber (wildcards [1])
  tnl_cp = tonumber (wildcards [2])
  xp = max_xp - tnl_xp
  cp = max_cp - tnl_cp
  
end -- do_prompt_tnl

This function draws it all, and is only called by my hp/sp/ep functions.


function draw_the_bars ()

  -- fill entire box to clear it
  check (WindowRectOp (win, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, BACKGROUND_COLOUR))  -- fill entire box
  
  -- Edge around box rectangle
  check (WindowCircleOp (win, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, BORDER_COLOUR, 0, 2, 0, 1))

  vertical = 6  -- pixel to start at

  DoGauge ("HP: ",  hp,  max_hp,  ColourNameToRGB "darkgreen")
  DoGauge ("SP: ",  sp,  max_sp,  ColourNameToRGB "mediumblue")
  DoGauge ("EP: ",  ep,  max_ep,  ColourNameToRGB "red")
  DoGauge ("XP: ",  xp,  max_xp,  ColourNameToRGB "darkviolet")
  DoGauge ("CP: ",  cp,  max_cp,  ColourNameToRGB "gold")

  WindowShow (win, true)

end -- draw_the_bars

I tried splitting out the xp and cp parts into a second draw_the_xp_bars function, but when that was called it would erase my hp/sp/ep bars, which I don't want to do. I'd also like to somehow get the XP bar display to show "L5: " (or whatever my current level is) instead of "XP: ", which is why that first trigger and function is in there. Any idea how I can get this mess to work?

edit: Something I tried earlier was having the xp/cp triggers also call the draw_the_bars function, but when first installing the plugin, those values aren't all there, so it can't draw the bars!