Baradé's Log 1.0

[P3in]

This is so dope, a feature i didn't knew i needed, lol

If someone saves the game and loads it another time, will this log somehow break, or it will retain that log when its loaded?

 

[Barade]

This is so dope, a feature i didn't knew i needed, lol

If someone saves the game and loads it another time, will this log somehow break, or it will retain that log when its loaded?

Right now it should hide and disable the log shortly on every save and reenable it it after a short delay and recreate it on loading save games but I can improve this behavior a bit. Note after loading save games frames are invalid and must be recreated. The log should not be discarded until it reaches the specified maximum.

edit:
Updated the system and simplified the code for save games.
Whenever a savegame is loaded the UI is recreated due to Reforged's bugs with framehandles in save games but the UI is not hidden anymore.

 

[DarkIllidan]

Would you make with Lua? Would be useful for our 2 Player Campaign.

 

[Barade]

Sry I don't know much about LUA. Can LUA not me mixed with vJass?

 

[Antares]

Sry I don't know much about LUA. Can LUA not me mixed with vJass?

You can only either use Lua or JASS.

Great system! I always found it stupid that system messages are not shown in the message log in multiplayer.

If I add my own messages to the periodic trigger, they get converted to TRIGSTR_07 etc. Idk why yours do not, but this is something I think you have to address. You can avoid the trigstrings by setting the tooltip of an unused ability to the chat message, then extracting the tooltip with BlzGetAbilityExtendedTooltip.

Having the normal Blizzard log as well as your custom log can be quite confusing. I think you could hide the F12 button, create a fake one at the same position to open your log, and then create a trigger for F12 press to open and close it as well.

 

[Antares]

No reply from author.

Awaiting Update

 

[Barade]

It handles localized strings with the function GetLocalizedMessage, so as soon as your string starts with TRIGSTR_XXX it actually should be converted. Which GUI function did you try? The example map does the same.

About hiding the standard log: I am not quite sure but could work on this. For my own map some chat messages are sent from AI scripts which will only be shown in the official multiplayer log during a multiplayer game since hooks do not work there but this is a really really rare case.
I might add this somehow when I have more time and add it optionally.

 

[Antares]

I don't know, I just added a GUI line at the bottom of your periodic trigger and launched the map. In-game it got displayed as "TRIGSTR_07".

• Messages
  • Events
    • Time - Every 2.00 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Game - Display to (All players) the text: All players!
    • Game - Display to (All players) for 30.00 seconds the text: All players timed! ...
    • Game - Display to Player Group - Player 1 (Red) the text: Player |cffff0000Re...
    • Game - Display to Player Group - Player 2 (Blue) the text: Player |cff0000ffBl...
    • Quest - Display to (All players) the Quest Update message: All players quest u...
    • Cinematic - Send transmission to (All players) from Paladin 0000 <gen> named Paladin: Play No sound and display Paladin All!. Modify duration: Add 0.00 seconds and Don't wait
    • Cinematic - Send transmission to (Player group(Player 1 (Red))) from Paladin 0000 <gen> named Paladin: Play No sound and display Red Paladin!. Modify duration: Add 0.00 seconds and Don't wait
    • Cinematic - Send transmission to (Player group(Player 2 (Blue))) from Paladin 0029 <gen> named Paladin: Play No sound and display Blue Paladin!. Modify duration: Add 0.00 seconds and Don't wait
    • Cinematic - Send transmission to (All players) from a Player 1 (Red).Archmage named Archmage at (Center of (Playable map area)): Play No sound and display Archmage!. Modify duration: Add 0.00 seconds and Don't wait
    • Custom script: call BlzDisplayChatMessage(Player(0), 0, "Chat message from red!")
    • Custom script: call BlzDisplayChatMessage(Player(1), 0, "Chat message from blue!")
    • Game - Display to (All players) the text: dudenstein

 

[Barade]

I will have to check this since, the other messages worked.

I have added a fixed SimError to the description. This system will cause desyncs to the regular SimError because of the hooks.

edit:
There is indeed a bug. StringLength seems to already use the localized version, so StringLength("TRIGSTR_104") returns the length of "dudenstein" and not the string "TRIGSTR_104" itself. I did not know that.

edit2:

• Fixed the bug which did not translate all strings properly because of the wrong string length of localized strings.
• Added an option to overwrite the upper F12 Log/Chat button: UPPER_BUTTON_OVERWRITE. Note that when pressing the hotkey F12 it automatically pauses the game and hence the native Log UI has to be closed in single player as well but pressing on the button will always only open this custom Log UI.
• Added an option for the chat commands: CHAT_COMMAND_ENABLE
• Localized the chat message strings: CHAT_RECIPIENT_ALL, CHAT_RECIPIENT_ALLIES, CHAT_RECIPIENT_OBSERVERS and CHAT_RECIPIENT_PRIVATE
• Added a SimError version without desync to the map file.
• Removed function GetLocalizedMessage.
• CreateUI is private now.