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Apprentice Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 168

I have... @monkCombos.name (where name is a specific combo of attacks listed as a string "palm punch|elbow|roundhouse kick" I have a list of like 18 combinations)

so my thing is as follows (new combo's will be added as I learn them)

Apprentice Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 168

I more or less got it to work by not using %DB and making unique VAR string list for each combo, then copy that var to the @comboTemp to run %pop with... would much rather pull the string list from DB to not have as many stand alone variables... but not sure if that's do-able.

the core mechanics work for a friend that uses it in Blowtorch (on his cell) so converting stuff to work in cmud was my biggest issue.

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:27 am

You are only ever assigning it the first item in the list:

comboTemp = %item(@monkCombos.opener,1)

Rather than the whole combo:

comboTemp = %db(@monkCombos, opener)

Also, you aren't supposed to use the @ symbol in a %pop

Apprentice Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 168

Ah

sucker punch is an out of combat skill and requires <arg> to designate the mob like 'kill soldier' 'sucker punch soldier' all other uses of the combo alias is after combat is initiated so doesn't require the <arg>

or were you meaning when designating 'comboTemp' ?

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2020 1:05 pm

The latter.

Apprentice Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 168

OK, got that all squared away and working perfectly. Thank you so much...

However I have a new issue that you have helped me with something(?) sort of.

Basic gist is I have an alias with a string list of trainable guild skills. alias to #FORALL from that list and a designated rank to train to. What I want to do is create a DB list of each skill_Name (%i) = Exp : Value to then %sort this list by the Exp Lowest to Highest.

Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2020 2:00 pm

Sorting explanations can get a bit long, take a look at this old thread where I was doing something similar:

http://forums.zuggsoft.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=133263#133263

Apprentice Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 168

I have managed to get 90% of what I wanted to accomplish down, just all that remains is the sorting.

Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2020 2:41 pm

You could try flipping the key-value pair to leading with the xp costs.

#ADDKEY trainOrder $expCost $skillName

Then when you are ready to train the cheapest one:

$nextSkill=%pop(%sort(%dbkeys(@trainOrder)))
train %db(@trainOrder, $nextSkill)
#DELKEY trainorder $nextSkill

Apprentice Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 168

I had just found this post...

http://zuggsoft.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=37689

I'll test your suggestion after a nap lol
been wracking my brains for this thing and while I am proud I solved the majority of it, the end goal is just out of reach with the state my brain is in...

Apprentice Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 168

OK the flip part worked fine, but the rest of it isn't. well I modified it the #SHOW so I could see what it was doing and it just sends a blank line.

What I need the last part to really do is set two variables that I use to track the skill name I am currently working on saving free exp to train with,
and the required exp for said skill.

Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2020 10:04 pm

Defining variables is pretty easy, what are you having problems with in this section?

The only issue I see with the code is in the %format formatting string.

"&10.0n"
should be
"&10.0n"

Apprentice Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 168

well I run the main alias to estimate all skills in the master list and that's how we get the low to high cost we flipped. I need to then with a second alias to just pull that lowest skill & cost to the above's gauge. so I know when the gauge is full I can then train that skill to the estimated rank.

also the gauge in client is "&10.0n" but when you look at the XML tab and copy/paste it converts it to the "&10.0n"

Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 12:44 am

Well, after you have the flipped list set up do something like

$xp=%pop(%sort(%dbkeys(@trainOrder)))
#ADDKEY charstats expNeeded $xp
#ADDKEY charstats skillName %db(@trainOrder, $xp)

You can set skillRank similarly in the alias you use to get the values in the first place.

Apprentice Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 168

the gauge also functions onCLick to send "train @charStats.skillName to @charStats.skillRank" can I still use

#DELKEY trainOrder $xp

to remove the trained skill from list?

Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 2:19 am

$xp, as a local variable, will no longer be in memory by the time you click the button, but if you redeclare it, it would work, assuming nothing else got cheaper in the meantime.
Or just use %db(@charStats, expNeeded)

Apprentice Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 168

duh just remembered that %pop will remove that item from the list when the setSkill alias gets used to define the skillName, expGoal to the guage.

Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 2:36 am

That pop is working off the anonymous variable returned by %dbkeys, no saved variable was popped.

Apprentice Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 168

but I could use the #DELKEY at that level after it's written the expGoal & skillName, like how you originally called for it's use?

Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 3:35 pm

You can, yes.

Apprentice Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 168

hrm took a short break and now that I'm back at it, something isn't working right.

the main proccess is working to collect the data and flip the name/exp to exp/name, but when I go to setGoal with

Apprentice Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 168

after sleeping on it I tried to break it down step by step and it seems nesting all those functions broke something...

Newbie Joined: 02 Mar 2022 Posts: 1

sucker punch is an out of combat skill and requires <arg> to designate the mob like 'kill soldier' 'sucker punch soldier' all other uses of the combo alias is after combat is initiated so doesn't require the <arg>