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Beginner Joined: 06 Mar 2001 Posts: 23 Location: Bulgaria

Purpose:
A colorful(less than 50% - red, less than 75% - yellow else green) bar, you can use in status windows, for example, to show your hp, sp, etc...

Code:

#CLASS {Bar}


#VAR bar {%if(%3 > 100, "Illegal length (0 < length < 101)", %if(%3 < 1, "Illegal length (0 < length < 101)", %if(@b_perc(%1, %2) < 50, %ansi(high, red), %if(@b_perc(%1, %2) < 75, %ansi(high, yellow), %ansi(high, green)))%repeat("#", %if(@b_length(%1, %2, %3) > %3, %3, @b_length(%1, %2, %3)))%ansi(def)%repeat(".", %if(@b_remaining(%1, %2, %3) > %3, %3, @b_remaining(%1, %2, %3)))))}


#VAR b_perc {%eval(%1 * 100 / %2)}


#VAR b_remaining {%eval(((%3 * 100) - (%3 * @b_perc(%1, %2))) / 100)}


#VAR b_length {%eval(%3 - @b_remaining(%1, %2, %3))}


#CLASS 0

Usage:
  @bar(current, max, length)
Where:
  current - the current value of the stat you want to show
  max - the maximum value of the stat you want to show
  length - the length of the bar(from 1 to 100)

Example:
Let's say you have your hp in @hp, max hp in @hpmax.

#echo {Hp: "["@bar(@hp, @hpmax, 10)"]"}

If you currently have 27 out of 34 hit points, will result in:
Hp: [########..]

Novice Joined: 06 Nov 2000 Posts: 35 Location: USA

my mud has the in the code to do it for u when ur full strength your hp is white if color is toggled. when ur at med strength its yellow. when ur gettin ur butt kicked its red.. maybe some muds should incorporate this code to their mud.. its usedful

[Black Robes]

Beginner Joined: 22 Jun 2001 Posts: 21

Mine MUD has it too...but why don't you just make a guage? They are much nicer and you can do more with it.

Beginner Joined: 06 Mar 2001 Posts: 23 Location: Bulgaria

> Mine MUD has it too...

I have yet to see a mud that shows your hps, sps... as a bar.

> but why don't you just make a guage? They are much nicer and you can do more with it.

Nicer yes. But no, I don't think you can do more with them - a textual bar can be just as informative as a graphical gauge (I mean, you don't expect someone to count the pixels then find how much of them are left from the max possible and then estimate the remaining hps). Not to mention that:

Gauges have only two possible colors, with a script you can add as many as you wish.
Gauges can only appear on a button pannel, with a script you can put it inside the mud text or use it on a floating status window wherever you want to.
Gauges don't help you get better at scripting. :P

And, of course, there's always a possibility that you are ignorant of the fact that gauges exist until someone mentions it on the forums. *blush*

Beginner Joined: 22 Jun 2001 Posts: 21

You can give gauges multiple colors with extra coding.

However, the status bar window is a GREAT place for a text based gauge though.

My MUD does not give the text based guage all the time, there is a command for it. But it is there.

Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2002 12:15 am

You could mod this code to 4,5, or more colors. A feature I can use in several places. I will play around with it and post working code in a week.

Asati di tempari!