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Re: How can I set the entity name in script?
[Re: pegamode]
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08/31/08 07:57
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EvilSOB
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Aha, I see. Ive never played with hashmaps and havent really tried to understand the concepts yet, thats a job for later... BUT, here is an exceptionally ugly and mem-leaky little piece of code that I use in a tool Im building that creates light entities and 'gives' them unique names. LightEnt = ent_create(Globe_MDL, nullpointer, NULL);
STRING* tmp = str_create("GlobeLight_01");
LightEnt.link.name = tmp.chars;Its dirty but it works. The concept may give you ideas and if you come up with something similar it may solve MadJacks crashes. I'll be redoing my above snippet in an estimated few days to be 'clean' by using malloc instead of a sacrificial string. If you want it, I'll post it in here when its done.
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Re: How can I set the entity name in script?
[Re: EvilSOB]
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08/31/08 09:51
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Just a precision, in my DLL I assumed that each entity had a name. My mistake  Since Pegamode has pointed that it was not true using ent_create, we have corrected the DLL code. But for general purpose, it might be interesting to set the entity name by script... Pegamode, did you test EvilSOB's solution ?
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Re: How can I set the entity name in script?
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09/01/08 11:27
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EvilSOB
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Yeah, I tried it this way to start too, but
LightEnt.link.name = tmp;
wont work cause the link.name REQUIRES its data to be JUST
a CHAR array, not a whole STRING structure. Big difference.
By using LightEnt.link.name = tmp.chars;, I am
only using the CHAR array element of the string structure.
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Re: How can I set the entity name in script?
[Re: EvilSOB]
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09/02/08 04:50
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OK guys, heres the Renamer snippet I promised. Tweaked it a bit so now it will work on almost any object type, BMAP,TEXT, ENTITY, etc.
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// example usages
Rename_Link(Model.link, "New_Name1");
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STRING* tmpName = str_create("Test_Name_two");
Rename_Link(Model2.link, tmpName);
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function Rename_Link( C_LINK* Link, STRING* NewName )
{ // Either INSERTS or REPLACES the C_LINK.name field with supplied NewName.chars
// If C_LINK* is NULL, function will just exit
// If STRING* is NULL, function will replace C_LINK.name with NULL
//
if(Link==NULL) return; //Cant process UNDEFINED object
if(Link.name!=0) free(Link.name); //Erase existing
Link.name=0; // Link Name
if(NewName==NULL) return; //Leave Link name empty as requested
Link.name = (char*)malloc((long)str_len(NewName)+1); //create Name space
memcpy(Link.name,_chr(NewName),str_len(NewName)+1); // & copy Name into space
}Any questions or problems, let me know. Enjoy.
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