Custom Progress Bar w/ Diminishing Returns and Multiboard

[Moderator]

12th Dec 2015
IcemanBo: Too long as NeedsFix. Rejected.

15:20, 22nd Jun 2013
PurgeandFire: Review here:
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/2365400-post13.html

 

[Hades17]

Reserved untill further notice.

 

[deathismyfriend]

i didnt look through everything thoroughly. But one thing i noticed is u shouldnt use integer A as it is less efficient and slower than using ur own variable.

 

[Hades17]

i didnt look through everything thoroughly. But one thing i noticed is u shouldnt use integer A as it is less efficient and slower than using ur own variable.

Fixed and updated, thank you +rep, also your Tutorial about GUI is pretty helpful and well written.

 

[deathismyfriend]

Fixed and updated, thank you +rep, also your Tutorial about GUI is pretty helpful and well written.

thanks lol and glad u like my tutorial. u might like my spells also. They arent in GUI but the config trigger is so its GUI friendly

 

[Almia]

http://www.wc3c.net/showthread.php?t=98138

 

[Hades17]

http://www.wc3c.net/showthread.php?t=98138

Aw man and I spent an hour on this stuff after googling a lot without result

But anyway, this one is jass mine is GUI

 

[Magtheridon96]

I have an awesome idea to make your system more extensible.

Instead of making it specific to mulitboards, you can pull off something that allows the user to do this:

• -------- The number of bars used in the progress bar --------
• Set ProgressBar_BarCount = 20
• -------- The percentage value for the bar --------
• Set ProgressBar_Percentage = 0.40
• -------- The background color covers the whole bar except for the "Percentage" of it. --------
• Set ProgressBar_BackgroundColor = |cffffc000
• -------- The fill color covers the "Percentage" part. --------
• Set ProgressBar_FillColor = |cffff0000
• -------- Generate the bar --------
• Trigger - Run GenerateProgressBar (ignoring conditions)
• -------- You would have a variable called ProgressBar_Result in which you would store the resulting bar and the user can do WHATEVER he wants with it ;) --------

Doesn't that approach sound way better?
You can use this and have the multiboard bar as an example inside the resource map.

People would then be able to use these bars for inventory systems, casting/channeling progress indicators, custom mana indicators, custom XP indicators, multiboards, gametext, quest progress indicators, you name it!

(The above snippet of code should yield |||||||||||||||||||| in the ProgressBar_Result string variable.)

 

[Hades17]

I have an awesome idea to make your system more extensible.

Instead of making it specific to mulitboards, you can pull off something that allows the user to do this:

• -------- The number of bars used in the progress bar --------
• Set ProgressBar_BarCount = 20
• -------- The percentage value for the bar --------
• Set ProgressBar_Percentage = 0.40
• -------- The background color covers the whole bar except for the "Percentage" of it. --------
• Set ProgressBar_BackgroundColor = |cffffc000
• -------- The fill color covers the "Percentage" part. --------
• Set ProgressBar_FillColor = |cffff0000
• -------- Generate the bar --------
• Trigger - Run GenerateProgressBar (ignoring conditions)
• -------- You would have a variable called ProgressBar_Result in which you would store the resulting bar and the user can do WHATEVER he wants with it ;) --------

Doesn't that approach sound way better?
You can use this and have the multiboard bar as an example inside the resource map.

People would then be able to use these bars for inventory systems, casting/channeling progress indicators, custom mana indicators, custom XP indicators, multiboards, gametext, quest progress indicators, you name it!

(The above snippet of code should yield |||||||||||||||||||| in the ProgressBar_Result string variable.)

Holy mother of ... Yeah that sounds absolutely fantastic!

Using it like this, we'd have a template for Progress Bars, fully customizeable. Amazing!

I'm ... I'm gonna implement this and update the resource.

Thank you so much for suggesting this!! (+rep)
Hades

 

[Hades17]

Updated accordingly.

 

[Almia]

I should have updated my ProgressBar system.

 

[Hades17]

So, will this system be revisited?

 

[PurgeandFire]

Right now this works, but I feel like it could be improved to fit Mag's suggestion a bit more. At the moment, this feels more like a sample rather than a system. Samples are nice, but systems are awesome in that other users have a better time of implementing it.

Right now, you still have to do some nasty |cffffcc00 + substring(text, 0, 7) + |cffAA00CC + substring(text, 7, end) things. That works, but it is pretty ugly. Plus, if someone just wants to increase it by one tick, then it would be a bit of a hassle to do all the conversions . In which case, the sample might not be too useful. You should try to frame it around Mag's idea a bit more. You are close--you let the user specify how many bars to have and all that, but what if the user wants different bar lengths for different things?

In Mag's trigger, basically you would input all those values and then the trigger "GenerateProgressBar" would spit out the string that already did the color coding + substrings for you. That way the user won't have to do anything, they can just input that string that you returned (ProgressBar_Result, or w/e). That would be the best way to have it.

If any of this is mistaken, then let me know. I was unable to check the actual map's triggers (I tested the map though, and btw the level value on the multiboard doesn't seem to increase), so I just referred to the triggers in the description. If those are the wrong triggers, then update the description and let me know--I'll take a look at it.