tekelili advanced WML questions

[Max]

untested, but might work: {VARIABLE_OP ($Victory+"_victory") add 1}

[Sapient]

untested, but might work: {VARIABLE_OP ($Victory+"_victory") add 1}

No, the preprocessor will concatenate those two strings before variable interpolation occurs.
Instead you should use operator |, like so:

Code: Select all

[set_variable]
  name="$Victory|_victory"
  add=1
[/set_variable]

[tekelili]

I am getting this error message:
"<invalid WML found> possible deprecated [or] syntax: now forcing reinterpretation"

Code looks work ok anyway, and I didnt found in WML guide nothing to understand why I get this error.

[Max]

just a guess - might be caused by this years old change:

Code: Select all

Date: 15:37:18, Samstag, 14. Juli 2007
Message:
   * the syntax for logical OR-filters is now "cond1[or]cond2[/or]" 
     instead of "[or]cond1[/or][or]cond2[/or]"

[SlowThinker]

I need a function (done with an event or anything else can work for it) to operate over an array (that I include as parameter when calling function). And I need can call recursively that function from inside itself. But as macros can not be called recursively,and {CALL_FUNTION} doesnt look accept arrays as parameter, I dont manage to imagine how do it. Can events be used for this in some way?

In past I decided whether to use fire_event or insert_tag for a recursion, and I felt insert_tag was better (and maybe also more powerfull, but I forgot why )

edit: the link has been replaced: more here, download the file and search for 'process_region_list_code'

[tekelili]

I am unexperienced with pango. I used it once sucesfully in a message for 1.9, but I am now trying use it for a label on 1.8 and I am not able. Do pango works for labels?
In case answer is yes: what exactly I must write to change this label

Code: Select all

{SET_LABEL 1 1 "FACTION: $faction"}

so $faction is writen in white?

[Anonymissimus]

This here just worked for me
wml_actions.label({ x = 15, y = 5, text = "<span foreground='blue'>blah</span>" })
So what you need is (untested)
{SET_LABEL 1 1 "FACTION: <span foreground='blue'>$faction|</span>"}

I dunno about variable substitution+pango though, perhaps they interfere.

EDIT
Of course you use the word white instead of blue.

[tekelili]

I dunno about variable substitution+pango though, perhaps they interfere.

I still dont get pango working, so I guess variable substitution is problem

[SlowThinker]

In my code <b>something</b> works with labels, and <b>should be a pango code (http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php ... 74#p471974). So I think this should work:

Code: Select all

{SET_LABEL 1 1 "FACTION: <span color='#FFFFFF'>$faction</span>"}

Variable substitution doesn't interfere with pango.

In past I decided whether to use fire_event or insert_tag for a recursion, and I felt insert_tag was better (and maybe also more powerfull, but I forgot why )

The reason is: WML with insert_tag is a more powerful than WML without insert_tag.

[Anonymissimus]

Variable substitution doesn't interfere with pango.

You never know...
I could imagine that pango could get applied first and afterwards the string gets variable-substituted. So the nicely colored variable name gets replaced by its uncolored value.

EDIT
Checked the source; variables in the text= attribute value are substituted upon constructing a label as you say.

[tekelili]

Sorry guys for keep bothering with this, but SlowThinker code neither works for me, I still get the pango code diplayed on map as if it where a string value

EDIT: Just for if it were important, I remember I am using BfW 1.8.5

[SlowThinker]

Anonymissimus: Also from my experience the following code works as expected (edit: but not with labels):

Code: Select all

<span color='$color_action'>$faction</span>

Also I can't imagine the logic of applying the pango first: how would we apply a variable substitution to a formated text? I can imagine the variable substitution is applied to a code only.

*****************************************
Edit:
I just ran a test with my 1.8.5, and pango with <span> doesn't work with labels:
Line 1, line 2 don't work, line 3 works:

Code: Select all

{SET_LABEL 1 1 ("<span size='small'>$Scn_tot_gold Gold</span>      $Scn_tot_villas Villas")}
{SET_LABEL 1 1 ("<span size='small'>Total bonuses and villas</span>")}
{SET_LABEL 1 1 ("<b>Total bonuses and villas</b>")}

(So <b> is not a pango code maybe ...)

[tekelili]

I guess this must be easy, but didnt manage to find out it:
¿Can default set_menu_item like "set label" and "next unit" be removed? if yes, how?

EDIT: As side nte to previous issue, if pango is some day enabled for labels, would be nice if also worked for description in set_menu_item. Or at least add a color variable.

[Sapient]

I guess this must be easy, but didnt manage to find out it:
¿Can default set_menu_item like "set label" and "next unit" be removed?

No

EDIT: As side nte to previous issue, if pango is some day enabled for labels, would be nice if also worked for description in set_menu_item. Or at least add a color variable.

Possibly... you should put in a feature request.

[SlowThinker]

Concerning set_menu_item:

• "=" inside the description works like a <TAB>. For example

  Code: Select all

  description="Unboard=unreversible!"

• items within the menu are ordered by id=