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Novice Joined: 25 Apr 2011 Posts: 32

I'm trying to make a custom scorecard for myself, but only for combat statistics.

The default scorecard on the MUD I play looks like this:

Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 2:38 pm

If the period is part of the captured element, you should be able to do a %replace with it and replace it with a space.

If it's something you add there to get the spacing you want, take a look at %format instead. You can format spaces before and after your strings.

Novice Joined: 25 Apr 2011 Posts: 32

It's something I put there for spacing, because just using spaces doesn't work. How would I use %format for that purpose? I'm rather dense.

Also, do you have any idea how to achieve the spacing I'm looking for with the others? Like, if you look at the first score card, the spacing between Hitpoints and Practices remains the same regardless of whether Hitpoints is 50/50(and thus 5 characters total) or 1700/1700(and 9 characters). For instance, "Practices" is always 32 spaces from the beginning of the line, no matter what's in frnt of it. Know what I mean?

Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 5:03 pm

Well, to be honest, I should have mentioned %repeat first, since you can do %repeat(" ", 15) to start something 15 spaces in.

However, %format is very useful for setting it up like your score card. I'll give a brief tutorial on how to do it.

Let's say that your columns are 50 characters long, and you want all text to be left-justified. You would then use:

Novice Joined: 25 Apr 2011 Posts: 32

Did you mean to use code instead of quote? :x I think you might have and it took your spaces away. I'll try the formatting. repeat worked great to replace the periods, though. :) Thanks.

Edit: You fixed it. That's what happened when you don't reload a page for 2 hours. -_-

Novice Joined: 25 Apr 2011 Posts: 32

Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 7:58 pm

Novice Joined: 25 Apr 2011 Posts: 32

That works great. I modified it a little though because the values for torsohit and all of those weren't showing up for some reason. Here's what I have:

Novice Joined: 25 Apr 2011 Posts: 32

Ok. Here's my current script:

Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 5:58 am

Have you tried using multiple format functions on the line instead of trying to concat it all to fit the one format string? it allows you to better fine tune the spacing of each section... also, MXP color might make it easier to read the code.

Novice Joined: 25 Apr 2011 Posts: 32

I didn't use your code exactly, but it works great now. Thanks Shalimar and Charneus. :D Sorry for being a noob at this.

Next up: An even newbier question.

Novice Joined: 25 Apr 2011 Posts: 32

Am I annoying you guys? I'm annoying myself quite badly.

Changed it up to simplify it and it's not very simple for me.

New script:

Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 2:25 am

are you sure all the variables have a value that is not 0?
0*100/x=0

also, you might want to use 100.0 to force it to do float math instead of integer math

Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 10:05 am

The reason why it's giving off-alignment columns is because you're padding "Torso" in the front. The padding of spaces begins at the position of the last character, so as the first column grows larger, the further to the right the second column will be.

The way to fix this is not use %format("&18s", "Torso:"), but instead, use the format off the %eval.

Novice Joined: 25 Apr 2011 Posts: 32

Woot. Took me a sec, but apparently I also wasn't spacing the percentages far enough from the values of the hit locations, so it wasn't allowing the formatting to work right. Trew in two extra spacs to allow for up to 100% and it's working perfect again. :) Thanks again, guys.