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Beginner Joined: 13 Apr 2001 Posts: 15 Location: USA

I'm making a card game script where each player's hand is a list, eg {Card1|Card2|Card3}. I want to make a multistate "Play Card" button that is created by an alias, say "Rebutton", where each state is an individual card in that player's hand.

Is this possible? I tried using a #LOOP function in defining the button:

#ALIAS Rebutton {#BUTTON 1 {Play Card} {} {#LOOP %numitems(@playerHand) {%item(@playerHand},%i)|}} <insert rest of button props here> }

but that just put the literal "#LOOP blah blah" as the state caption.

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Arthaey

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

You are trying to make a stringlist with the #LOOP command, right? It appears from your use of the %numitems(@playerHand) that @playerHand is already a stringlist with precisely the values you want. Why not just use it?

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SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Your rebutton alias would have to be something like this:
#EXEC %expand(#BUTTON 1 {Play Card} {} {@playershand} {%concat("PlayCardAlias",%replace(@playershand,"|","|PlayCardAlias "))} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {0|0|0|0|0|0|0} {} {} "" {} {} {PlayCard}

You would have to write the PlayCardAlias or change the name in there to what you have. Note that this may have some odd effects do to the replace with the list seperator. Currently it is allowed but may be a problem in future versions.

Beginner Joined: 13 Apr 2001 Posts: 15 Location: USA

I tried your suggestion, but when I run the alias

#button 1 {Play Card} {} {@playerHand} {@playerHand}

to make the button, it outputs a toggle button with "Play Card" as one state and the literal caption "@playerHand" as the other state. The variable is not expanded out to its list form. I tried substituting %expand(@playerHand) for @playerHand, but that didn't work either.

I hadn't mentioned earlier that the actual variable that I'm using is @player@{meNum}Hand -- a variably named variable. I hadn't thought it was important, since it doesn't work with either form of the variable name. But just in case it -does- make a difference, I thought I might as well let you know what I'm really using.

To sum up, the question boils down to this: How can I force the variable to expand before its values are put into the button?

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Arthaey

Beginner Joined: 13 Apr 2001 Posts: 15 Location: USA

quote:

Your rebutton alias would have to be something like this:
#EXEC %expand(#BUTTON 1 {Play Card} {} {@playershand} {%concat("PlayCardAlias",%replace(@playershand,"|","|PlayCardAlias "))} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {0|0|0|0|0|0|0} {} {} "" {} {} {PlayCard}

I tried that (and added a closing parenthese at the very end to close up the %expand function), but all it did was create 7 empty states -- no captions, no commands. So, at least it's a step in the right direction, but it's still not working properly. :(

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Arthaey

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Ahh I see I should have typed PlayerHand, I have PlayersHand. Also I couldn't figure what the section in the button with 0|0|0|0|0 does. probably you should replace that with "%leftback(%repeat("0|",%numitems(@PlayerHand)),1)" Sorry bout the typo

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Ahh I see I should have typed PlayerHand, I have PlayersHand. Also I couldn't figure what the section in the button with 0|0|0|0|0 does. probably you should replace that with "%leftback(%repeat("0|",%numitems(@PlayerHand)),1)" Sorry bout the typo

Beginner Joined: 13 Apr 2001 Posts: 15 Location: USA

Thank you all for your help. I've got it working now.

Thanks again!
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Arthaey