Passing argument type to subroutrine

[Steveiwonder]

Hiya,

I'm having some problems passing particular object types to subroutines.

I've got the following

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Sub Test(obj)

/echo ${obj.ID}

/return

I'm basically trying to pass a "spawn" to the routine but i think tostring is being called on the object before it gets passed in. I looked a the documentation and see you can delcare the var type like

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Sub Test(int obj)

/return

I have tried

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Sub Test(spawn obj)

but not getting anywhere, is it even possible to do something like this?

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Sub Main

/call Test ${Target}

/return

Sub Test(obj)

/target id ${obj.ID} // No such 'string' member 'ID'

/return

Hope that makes sense. Obviously the above is useless it's just to demonstrate what I'm doing.

Thank you.

Steve

[PeteSampras]

you cant pass objects in macro because even though it technically exists, it doesnt exist in the macro parser.

So you can pass strings or ints or bools or floats, etc but not spawntypes.

In your example you would do the (int obj) and /call test ${Target.ID}

I mentioned this awhile back to eqmule but it wasnt any near the top of his to do list. Same for spelltypes.

EDIT: I just reviewed the code again, and maybe you can do it and i just didnt try it correctly. This should work if it works at all:

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Sub Main
/call test ${Target}
return

Sub Test(spawn obj)
/echo ${obj.ID}
return

And if it does work, then we've all been doing macros wrong this whole time.

[warlock45]

are you looking to target a specific thing and pass that on in a macro?

IE

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Sub Main
........
     	/declare MATarget        int    	outer 
.......

/varset MATarget ${Target.ID}
.....

/if (${Target.ID}!=${MATarget}) /target ${Spawn[${MATarget}].ID}

or are you trying to pass say "${Target.Type.Equal[corpse]}"

or am I just too tired... heh

[PeteSampras]

He wants to pass it as a spawntype. So if it works at all, it would be what i put.

His backup plan would be to access it via /vardata.

/declare i int local
/vardata i obj.ID
/echo ${i}

[Steveiwonder]

Thanks for the replies.

I have tried it like this however it doesn't work, but the result is different.

Instead of it throwing an error like cannot find member 'ID', the echo actually outputs 0. So it must have passed a type of some kind. I tried echoing more properties on the 'obj' and the values output seem to be their "default"?

Example:

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	/echo ${obj.ID} | Always 0
	/echo ${obj.AFK} | always FALSE
	/echo ${obj.Name} | always empty string
	/echo ${obj.Gender}| awlays 'male'

I've tried the above macro on myself and other players male and female just to be sure.
Does this mean it might be possible with maybe a small fix in MQ2? I'm going to try and find my way around the code.

Thanks

Steve

[warlock45]

ah. I thought perchance he/you was... well saying one thing and meaning another basically.

Maybe I am too sleepy but failing to fathom why you would need to pass that information on beyond a check.

if target is afk and male and whatever, add to X list/array/variable.

maybe my knowledge is lacking in this area is all, simply trying to be helpful =)

[Steveiwonder]

The macro above was just an example, I'm trying to do something slightly different but i get i can just use a var which is fine and i will do.

Thank you anyway, worth knowing if this could be done.

[PeteSampras]

I can write little plugin snippet to create what you are asking for in the form of a /command. However, there is probably a better way to incorporate it actually working. What needs to happen is a way to directly access GetSpawnByName() and GetSpawnByID(). a la:

/declare MySpawn1 spawn GetSpawnByID(${Target.ID})
/declare MySpawn2 spawn GetSpawnByName(PeteSampras)

That is the capability I had mentioned to eqmule way back when. To be able to /declare spawn & spell mostly, but other types could be useful.

What I could do now is create a map and store your variable into a vector of spawns/spells/etc.

You can reference the MQ2Ifs post i put up in the plugin section if you'd like to see wtf im talking about.

[Steveiwonder]

I can write little plugin snippet to create what you are asking for in the form of a /command. However, there is probably a better way to incorporate it actually working. What needs to happen is a way to directly access GetSpawnByName() and GetSpawnByID(). a la:

/declare MySpawn1 spawn GetSpawnByID(${Target.ID})
/declare MySpawn2 spawn GetSpawnByName(PeteSampras)

That is the capability I had mentioned to eqmule way back when. To be able to /declare spawn & spell mostly, but other types could be useful.

What I could do now is create a map and store your variable into a vector of spawns/spells/etc.

You can reference the MQ2Ifs post i put up in the plugin section if you'd like to see wtf im talking about.

I appreciate the offer but honestly, i don't want to consume your time when i can achieve what i want by other means.

Thank you though, it is appreciated