Confused about vars in this tutorial

[JeffreyQ]

I decided to post here because no 1 is replying on that comment and since most people are here.

In the Hashtable and MUI tutorial, I have something that i am confused and need some clarification.

RemainingTime is a global var. So if i cast a 2nd healing over time within 10seconds. the 1st unit who benefit from it will get have its Healing over time reset to 10? Since storing the hashtable value to a global var which is 10 and it will reset the condition. Correct me if i am wrong.

Someone please clear my doubt! Help is much appreciated.

 

[SlayerII]

Yes remaining time is a global var, but you DONT use it to store the value. Its just used to load the value from the hashtable. i
f you looked more carefully you may have seen that remaining time always gets a new value when the trigger fires.

 

[JeffreyQ]

Cool, learnt something new. But i still have a similar confusion about my question.

Hashtable - Save (RemainingTime - 1.00) as 0 of (Key (Picked unit)) in hashTable

At this part, it saves 10-1 in the hashtable. so 9 seconds left assuming its on the initial loop.

Does this mean that Hashtable - Save will automatically assign RemainingTime - 1.00 ion the hashtable of that location of 0,key of picked unit?

 

[SlayerII]

ermm... yes...
but insread of 0 i would use RTime or something, 0 is quite bad if you have to read the trigger later again.

 

[JeffreyQ]

Thanks for the tips and clarification! +Rep! This will surely help me alot in MUI spells [: