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Cyan~Fire - Sat Nov 01, 2003 2:04 pm
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I've changed my capital ship plugin to check caps with ident instead of name, as it's just plain easier to work with.
But, for some reason, MERVBot isn't reading the ident right. So, to test it out, I made a command (!idme) that does:
sendPrivate(p, "Your ident is: " + p->ident); //Using class String '+' operator
and when I use the command, it just says "Your ident is: ".
I know MERV can read my ID, since it can send me private messages, but does anyone know what's causing this? Maybe I'm just making a stupid mistake.

k0zy - Sat Nov 01, 2003 7:03 pm
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sendPrivate(p, "Your ident is: " + p->ident");

Where does the third " come from?

Cyan~Fire - Sat Nov 01, 2003 8:29 pm
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Oops there is not third lol, edited.

Well I made a workaround by doing if (ident), but I'd still like to know why it's doing this

ExplodyThingy - Sat Nov 01, 2003 8:39 pm
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p->ident is NOT good to use. Ident is not ?userid. Its the 3-byte id assigned by the server for use with chat and such items. It changes from connection to connection.

Mine GO BOOM - Sat Nov 01, 2003 10:57 pm
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ExplodyThingy wrote:

Its the 3-byte id assigned by the server for use with chat and such items. It changes from connection to connection.

2 bytes. Just in the one position packet's case, it uses one byte, so it can shrink the packet's size. If the userid is over 255, it will always use the larger position packet.

Cyan~Fire - Sat Nov 01, 2003 11:01 pm
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Oh. So you recommend I switch back to p->name?

50% Packetloss - Sat Nov 01, 2003 11:36 pm
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ident starts at 0 and increments up for each player.
So if the bot was in the arena, it would be ident=0 then I entered then i would be Ident=1.

Cyan~Fire - Sun Nov 02, 2003 1:12 pm
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Except it was just not getting an ident for players. The if (p->ident == blah) statement was true for every single player...

I'll just switch back to names, I guess.

Anonymous - Sun Nov 02, 2003 7:18 pm
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try casting it to a string before you print it

sendPrivate(p,"your ident is " + (String)p->ident);

Cyan~Fire - Sun Nov 02, 2003 9:24 pm
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No, the String class has its own operator for adding integers.
Anyway, I already switched back to p->name, so topic closed. But, thanks anyway.

Anonymous - Wed Nov 19, 2003 12:10 pm
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it doesn't convert it to a String because you're adding a const char* and an integer, and then trying to convert the result to a String... if it did work you would have gotten a number... and clearly you didn't

Cyan~Fire - Wed Nov 19, 2003 4:12 pm
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Other things I have tried worked like this... or at least I think so.

Thanks, but lol I've totally redone my system now to use Player struct pointers, instead of just one value. Makes a lot more sense.