Knee-Deep in SLIC

[The Big Mc]

yes that code could work

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by The Big Mc
I would like to see it when it is done

Patience, little grasshopper

I should be done this month unless any bugs show up in testing that passed me by so far.

[The Big Mc]

hoow wise master I have travelled many nights to try to find a slicer with my skill could you point me in the direction of a master slicer.

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by MrBaggins
Out of curiousity, do we know for a fact that *this*

Quote by MrOgre
Important note! As this documenation is being prepared, the first patch for CTP2 is about to be released. Unfortunately a bug with functions was discovered too late to fix. Specifically, in some cases, using members of unit, army, city, and location variables that are function parameters may not always work as expected. There is, however, a workaround. Copy the function parameter to a local variable and use that variable instead.

was fixed, in every case?

In that case I would recomment to read the small sentence under the code:

The author apologizes for this and promises that if there is another patch it will be fixed. But the above workaround should always work.

Most important here is the little word: if. They promissed to fix it if there will be another patch but as we all know there was no more patch therefore this bug isn't fixed.

-Martin

[MrBaggins]

weren't there two patches?

1.1

and

1.11


Anyway... I guess its wise to be wary of the warning, and copy these non-ints locally, when you use them.

[The Big Mc]

tipical for activsion.

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by MrBaggins
weren't there two patches?

1.1

and

1.11


Anyway... I guess its wise to be wary of the warning, and copy these non-ints locally, when you use them.

No there is just one patch v1.1 and v.1.11 are idential the only different is the installer. The installer of v.1.1 had some problems on non US/UK English OS versions IIRC. So the content is the same.

To the promisse again they said if and not when, so it was at this time already questionable if there would be another patch.

-Martin

[Martin Gühmann]

Wired I should be the last person posted in this thread, but obviously the post wasn't registrated.

-Martin

[Martin Gühmann]

Well I just tried this and good a lot of sytax errors:

HandleEvent(SendGood)'MG_GiveGoodASound'post{
	message(1,'MGGoodMessage');
}

MessageBox'MGGoodMessage'{
	Text(ID_MG_GOOD_MESSAGE);
}

MG_GOOD_MESSAGE "Ressurce hat: {ressourceDB(value[0])}, {ressourceDB(value[0]).Sound}, {ressourceDB(value[0]).SpriteID}, {ressourceDB(value[0]).Gold}, {ressourceDB(value[0]).Food}, {ressourceDB(value[0]).Production}, {ressourceDB(value[0]).Probability}"

The errors were like this:

arguments not implemented
Function calls not implemented

Well I belive this as most of the fields in the Good.txt don't do anything. But this means the RessourceDB function is useless.

-Martin

[Martin Gühmann]

And again a not registered post.

-Martin

[Immortal Wombat]

I think it just means you can't call functions from the string files. You need to assign it to a global in the SLIC, and then pass that to the message box.
ResourceDB() is an int_f function that returns a number given a string, so it can't be used in the string files.

[The Big Mc]

I had a problem at the week end to I put in some slic for my science victory and got an error. I tried to pass a player into a variable and then use that variable to find out the number of cities the player had.