Hey guys, I've got a Problem.
Its difficult to explain but i hope you can help me.

I have 2 functions
the first has two parameters


function set_cardpos(PANEL* panel, position)
{
[...]
}


the second function is just a normal function. I work with panels. I've got a panel for every card that should appear depending on the card amount the player got.

now i want to make a loop that saves a lot of work.
it looks like this:

while(counter < cards+1)
{
str_cpy(cardname, "atk_card");
str_for_num(cardnum, counter);
str_cat(cardname, cardnum);

set_cardpos(cardname, 250);

counter += 1;
wait(1);
}

this while loop is element of the second function.
i wanted to create a string that holds the name of the panel. when the parameters reach the other function it should add the name of the desired panel for "panel" but it doesn't do this. nothing happens. when i type in the desired panel myself (f.e. "atk_card1") for "cardname" in the "set_cardpos(cardname, 250);"-line it does work.

do you know whats the matter about this?

i hope so

best regards
Roxas

it's expecting a panel, you're passing over a string...
you somehow need to convert the string into an actual panel.

good luck.

regards,

yeah thats the point
I hoped that 3dgs would convert it somehow through the parameter transfer or would "read" the string and put the string's content in place of the panel.

well someone here who has experience with converting strings to panels?

i hope so. and thanks for the answer helghast


best regards

roxas

Try to build two arrays, one for panel pointers, another for the names.
Store each panel pointers and regarding the names paralell.
Like this:


Store the pointers and the names when they occurs.
For example:


You can organize this activity into a loop if you can load the datas from file or create somehow the datas and the names.
In this case you have to save everything in a file, open that and read all lines. Just for fun:

Wow, in my post i wante to write down "sorry I cant really help, im a bit braindead...", after reading it again with some sleep, my post was the most helpless ever, im sorry i stated something you obviously had found out already (and had written in the description, hahahaa).

Anyway, basically what aku_aku did will work.
However personally im not a fan of preset length's of arrays (I wish array's would be more dynamic.. dammit), so instead you could use a linked list... but that's just being nitpicky me there

Good luck, and again sorry for the lame post...

regards,

EDIT: just to contribute to this topic, this should also work for what i said about dynamic array's:
array of STRIGNS [EvilSOB]

I am courios what is your opinion why is this comment at the bottom of the Wiki page?

I would guess its because that code is so old and the engine has improved a lot since then, so that is not very efficient code anymore.

NOWADAYS I can think of two very different ways of achieving that same result.

But the one based on my wiki example should should be updated to