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Cyan~Fire - Mon Sep 22, 2003 6:45 pm
Post subject: Alias and Player class functions

2 Questions:

1) Has anybody had problems with alias.dll just plain not recording names? It's kinda weird.

2) I keep getting a weird error in my plugin.
When I do this:
botInfo::cheack_leave(Player *p)
{
if (p->name == array[p->team])
blah;
}
The function doesn't work.

And yet this works:
botInfo::check_leave(String name, int team)
{
if (name == array[team])
blah;
}

Of course I am calling the function differently with:
check_leave(p);
check_leave(p->name, p->team);

So I'm doing it the second way but I could do a lot more and it would be simpler to do it the first. Any help/explanation would be appreciated!

Thanks,
Cyan~Fire

Anonymous - Wed Sep 24, 2003 7:53 am
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Because p->name (i think) is a char, and, looking at the array, that is type String. Do "String bleh = p->name", then use "if(bleh == array[p->team])".
That oughta work.

Cyan~Fire - Wed Sep 24, 2003 4:17 pm
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Hmmm, good thinking, I'll try it out later. I still don't fully understand how the String class works, basically I just have 'pidgin MERVBot', I don't really understand how a lot of it works.

Anonymous - Wed Sep 24, 2003 10:12 pm
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When I work with Mervbot-defined strings and my own variables ( such as char playername[20] ), I use strcmp instead of if (string1 == string2).

f.ex

if (strcmp(mystring,mervstring)==0)
{
tell(makeEcho("my string is equal to mervs string"));
}
else
{
tell(makeEcho("my string is not equal to mervs string"));
}

Note : Remember that strcmp is case-sensetive, so converting both strings to lowercase is recommended if f.ex you`re comparing a players input to f.ex a string from a text file.

You might have to #include "string.h" to use the strcmp function.

-Rifle

Cyan~Fire - Thu Sep 25, 2003 6:14 pm
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Thanks, but I think that's fixing what isn't broken. I'm using 'string1==string2' right now and it works. And case doesn't matter too because the value stored in 'array' is straight from p->name, so the case should be the same no matter what.

And anyway, my main problem is with alias.dll. I can't ban anybody the nice way because it records no player names and just says 'I have never seen them before.'

Thanks though.

Dustpuppy - Fri Sep 26, 2003 11:42 am
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The String object has it's own function for comparing to a char, so as long as you put it as the first item it will work. Like this:

botInfo::cheack_leave(Player *p)
{
if (array[p->team] == p->name)
blah;
}

Rather than this:

botInfo::cheack_leave(Player *p)
{
if (p->name == array[p->team])
blah;
}

Cyan~Fire - Fri Sep 26, 2003 7:47 pm
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Oooooh ok, cool, thanks.

Any comments on alias?

ExplodyThingy - Fri Sep 26, 2003 9:22 pm
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Clean the names out of the database, use the new(er) one on cats site, with the large-zone bug fix.

Cyan~Fire - Sat Sep 27, 2003 11:31 am
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Lol, whoops, sorry about that, the problem was just that my bot wasn't sysop. Oh well, thanks anyway.