[Trigger] A Single Long Trigger or Many Small Triggers

[The Howling Storm]

(Solved) A Single Long Trigger or Many Small Triggers

Greetings. I am attempting to create a stat system that assigns the stats to the units when they enter the map area. The question I am asking, then, is this: in-game, is it faster to have a multitude of smaller triggers to check the unit type, or would it be better to have one rather expansive trigger check through a multitude of unit types?

Edit: not sure it makes any difference, but felt I should say that I'm checking unit types via If/Then/Else functions.

 

[IcemanBo]

Try to create as less triggers with same event as possible. So in your case, maybe 1 trigger is better.

I don't know your triggers, but looping through many unit types doesnt sound very good. Maybe best would be without check.

You could store data into hashtable with key[unitType]. Then when a unit enters world, just set a variable to UnitType of EnteringUnit and load the value out of hashtable. Or field is set or will return 0.

 

[The Howling Storm]

Not seeing a key for unit type anywhere.

 

[IcemanBo]

UnitTypeId is an integer. You would have to use custom script for it.

 

[The Howling Storm]

Hmm. Well, I'll try test it out at some point in the near future, but an example would be extremely helpful - my knowledge of JASS is terribly poor.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

You don't need jass for that. Just convert unit type to integer for the key.

 

[IcemanBo]

Short example. We want to save a text to UnitType of footman. And whenever a unit enters the world, we display a message to know if it was a footman.

First in init, we save a string into hashtable with key of our UnitType, and later we load the string of our table of key UnitType. (as said actually UnitType it's an integer)

Variables are needed, but I think you can read out the type by their names. ("udg_" is the used prefix for variables created with the variable editor if you work with Custom script/JASS)

Init-trigger:

Custom script: set udg_hash = InitHashtable() Custom script: call SaveString(udg_hash, 'hfoo', 0, "Hello, I'm a footman!")

Enter world

Custom script: local string s = LoadString(udg_hash, GetUnitTypeId(GetTriggerUnit()), 0) Custom script: if s != null then Custom script: call BJDebugMsg(s) Custom script: else Custom script: call BJDebugMsg(unknown unitType) Custom script: endif

More gui-friendly variation Init Hashtable - Create New Hashtable Set hash = LastCreatedHashtable Set unitTypeVariable = Footman Custom script: set udg_integerVariable = udg_unitTypeVariable Hashtable - SaveString("Hello, I'm a footman!", integerVariable, 0, hash) Enter Custom script: set integerVariable = GetUnitTypeId(GetTriggerUnit()) Set stringVariable = Load(integerVariable, 0, hash) If stringVariable is not <Empty String> then Game - Display stringVariable else Game - Display "Unknown type"

Try it out, hope there are no syntax errors. After, if you still have problems you just can ask again.

 

[The Howling Storm]

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