A multiboard snippet

[Kazeon]

I'm working on a multiboard snippet, I would call it singleboard. Since the idea is one multiboard for the whole game. Based on the fact that every player can only see one multiboard at a time (iirc). But it's at cost of "resetting" the multiboard on every display/hide function. Does that worth it?

It's followed by another nice features such as:
- Getting board's cells text/size/icon/color/etc.

aboard[1][3].text | get the text at row 1 column 3
aboard[1][3].icon | get the icon at row 1 column 3​

- Nice interface. Ease you to work on your multiboard:

aboard[1][2].text= | assign a text into a cell (row 1, column 2)
aboard[1][2].icon=
aboard[1][2].style(showText, showIcon) | set a cell's style at row 1, column 2
aboard[1][2].color(r, g, b, a) | set a cell's color​

- Desync free: this snippet will preserve all multiboard items in a global variable. Avoiding repeated multiboard item getting and releasing over and over again.

Nope, the code isn't ready to be shared yet. I just need your opinion on my question above (1st paragraph). I will post the code here later.

 

[PurgeandFire]

A single multiboard is good if you are saving items (it means there are fewer items to save). Generally I use one multiboard per player in case they use different rows and columns for the multiboard. It might still be safe to change multiboard size locally though, I just haven't tested it. Theoretically, you would need to grab new multiboard items, and that could get pretty messy if you're doing it locally (it would desync). It might just be better to use 12 multiboards (1 per player).

 

[Kazeon]

Generally I use one multiboard per player in case they use different rows and columns for the multiboard. It might still be safe to change multiboard size locally though, I just haven't tested it.

I will test it this weekend. Thanks for the feedback!

 

[edo494]

I think it has been week since then any results?

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Whatever you do, do a research on the many bugs with multiboards and address them in your code.
For example the bug that you can't reduce the rowcount by more than 1 at the same time: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/triggers-scripts-269/weird-multiboard-bug-234897/

 

[IcemanBo]

Any progress?

 

[Almia]

Nes' Multiboard lib already does this, sad to say.

 

[IcemanBo]

Why is it sad then? Thanks, will have a look.

 

[Nestharus]

Mine doesn't do this. I believe that this is a separate issue from a multiboard wrapper.

 

[Kazeon]

I didn't even remember I started something like this, neither having the system map anymore. :/