Request for a New Sticky Topic and a few other questions

[Relic]

How about a new sticky topic, for working wml code? Or one for stable and one for dev. The lack of example uses for every tag in the documentation, could be offset by people being able to see others working code. I know you can look into other campaigns, but having a one stop place for a large amount of code examples would probably help a lot of people out. Maybe a wiki page would be better, not sure.

Also, I am trying to figure out how to put monster names into an array. I want to be able to use them to call a monster placement macro so do they need to be with the ()'s or could I put the variable in ()'s when I call it. Basically, how do I successfully make an array that I can use to place a Vampire Bat and a Walking Corpse since there is a space in between the names.

I built some code that lays monsters randomly, but want it much more efficient since it is a huge amount of repetitive wml.

[Mist]

Doing

Code: Select all

{VARIABLE <my_variable>.length <my_desired_length>}

gives you an empty array <my_variable> with <my_desired_length> elements. You can set, shirnk or enlarge any array in this way at any place in any event. Just remember that you can't assign values in following way

Code: Select all

<my_variable>[<any_number>]=<some_value>

each array member needs an container to hold the value like this

Code: Select all

<my_variable>[<any_number>].<some_container>=<some_value>

And about that sticky request :
It's not a good idea, it's hard to properly present the code on the forums and hard to properly search trough a thread content. The wiki is much better place for this.

[Sapient]

Doing

Code: Select all

{VARIABLE <my_variable>.length <my_desired_length>}

gives you an empty array <my_variable> with <my_desired_length> elements. You can set, shirnk or enlarge any array in this way at any place in any event.

This information is incorrect.
The other information was correct.

array.length should be considered a read-only value. changing it has no effect. array size is increased as it is needed.