[vJass] PreventOrders

[azlier]

Ah, good. But you should really prevent the order from being registered in the first place if it turns out to be Stop.

[Element of Water]

Update:
- All instances of GetUnitId inlined/changed to use d instead
- Stop orders now cannot be prevented
- I made all functions with a ById alternative simply wrappers for the ById version.

You really are nitpicky, Azlier...

[azlier]

Why settle for less when you can have more?

Approved.

[Element of Water]

Finally :D

Thanks for the approval... again (two scripts approved in one evening :D).

[Element of Water]

*UPDATE*
- Fixed a bug where specific point orders were not blocked.
- Now, whenever an order is prevented, the unit will continue with its previous orders as normal.

[azlier]

Well that's not good. You can abuse that to find an enemy that teleported away and/or turned invisible for a while. Simply order an attack, and when they disappear issue an order that is prevented. The unit will suddenly go and home in on the attacker who escaped.

[Element of Water]

When units teleport away, doesn't the attacker follow them anyway?

What can I do? The guys at wc3c said this wasn't approvable without that feature. I guess I can add a boolean to toggle it on or off with static ifs?

EDIT: I've done that for now, to make sure this resource stays as it was, but any suggestions would be welcome.

[Mooglefrooglian]

I would appreciate a way to be able to prevent a stop order from being issued.

When I look at this system, I think of it as a way of controlling a players unit without putting him in cinematic mode, and still allowing him to chat, and do everything he can normally - except control his one unit.

If he then issues a stop order while you are triggering his unit to move somewhere or perform an action (say, become berserk?), it adds a world of trouble for you to trigger. You have to repeatedly issue the same order, or something else, which is inefficient and something it would be easier to not deal with.

You should find a way to be able to block stop orders that dont come from this system itself. It seems like it would be simple enough.

[Element of Water]

Er... yeah... if you enable RETAIN_PREVIOUS_ORDERS, stop orders can indeed be prevented without any update.

[Anachron]

Thanks a lot, use it in my CustomInventory now. :)

edit:
Removed

if i or p or t then

in order to make it work.