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Title: Checking if markertype exists
Post by: Terox on 09 Oct 2005, 23:55:14

the script system

Firstly i have a script that defines a set of variables (to be called upon later
this basically is a list of vehicle classnames with "_icon" added to the end of them
and then these are equalled to a "markertype"

eg
markerInit.sqs

Quote

classname1_icon = "markertype stringname"
classname2_icon = "markertype stringname"
classname3_icon = "markertype stringname"

i then basically have a marker setpos script which sets the marker type defined in the above script for a given vehicleclassname


Markersetpos script

Quote

;; only relevant code displayed

_v = vehicle _u
_type = call (typeof _v + "_Icon")
;;_type should then be redefined by the markerInit.sqs into a markertype
_m setmarkertype _type

My problem is, if for some reason the
classnameX_icon = "markerclass stringname" hasnt been declared, i need to fall back to a default marker
and therefore i need to be able to return whether _m is a real classname of marker

I dont want to use an
if (_m in array)
if (getmarkertype _m in array)

as there are approx 100 markers it could be and searching through such an array would be very cpu intensive


any help would be greatly appreciated

Title: Re:Checking if markertype exists
Post by: Planck on 10 Oct 2005, 00:27:23

Scripts are not really my strong point, but:

_type = call (typeof _v + "Icon")

Should that not be?:

_type = call (typeof _v + "_Icon")


If not, I'll crawl back into my box.   ::) ::)


Planck

Title: Re:Checking if markertype exists
Post by: Terox on 10 Oct 2005, 01:15:11

Well spotted on the syntax error Planck

Have figured solution out anyway

if _type hadnt been listed in the markerInit.sqs
then _type returns "scalar bool array string 0xfcffffef" error

so i can use that

eg

if! (_type == "scalar bool array string 0xfcffffef")then