[Trigger] Hashtable Not Working

[Redeemer59]

Hi, so I have this spell that I want to create a set of 7 dummy units in an area which damage and cast spells on enemies inside of them every 0.50 seconds so I decided to use a Hashtable and it's not working and I can't figure out why.

• Grove of the Wicked Cast
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to Grove of the Wicked (Despoiler)
  • Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Number of units in GroveoftheWickedGroup) Equal to 0
      • Then - Actions
        • Trigger - Turn on Grove of the Wicked FX <gen>
      • Else - Actions
    • Set Location = (Target point of ability being cast)
    • Unit - Create 1 Grove of the Wicked (Despoiler) for (Owner of (Triggering unit)) at Location facing (Random real number between 1.00 and 360.00) degrees
    • Unit Group - Add (Last created unit) to GroveoftheWickedGroup
    • Hashtable - Save Handle OfLocation as 0 of (Key location) in GroveoftheWicked
    • Set Integer = (Level of Grove of the Wicked (Despoiler) for (Triggering unit))
    • Hashtable - Save (Level of Grove of the Wicked (Despoiler) for (Triggering unit)) as 1 of (Key level) in GroveoftheWicked
    • Hashtable - Save 10.00 as 2 of (Key duration) in GroveoftheWicked
    • For each (Integer A) from 1 to 6, do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • Set Location2 = (Location offset by 100.00 towards (60.00 x (Real((Integer A)))) degrees)
        • Unit - Create 1 Grove of the Wicked (Despoiler) for (Owner of (Triggering unit)) at Location2 facing (Random real number between 1.00 and 360.00) degrees
        • Custom script: call RemoveLocation (udg_Location2)
    • Set Integer = 0
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation (udg_Location)

There's the casting trigger.

• Grove of the Wicked FX
  • Events
    • Time - Every 0.50 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit Group - Pick every unit in GroveoftheWickedGroup and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • Set Location = (Load 0 of (Key location) in GroveoftheWicked)
        • Set Integer = (Load 1 of (Key level) from GroveoftheWicked)
        • Set GroveoftheWickedTime = (Load 2 of (Key duration) from GroveoftheWicked)
        • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
          • If - Conditions
            • GroveoftheWickedTime Greater than 0.00
          • Then - Actions
            • Set Group = (Units within 250.00 of Location matching (((Matching unit) belongs to an enemy of (Owner of (Picked unit))) Equal to True))
            • For each (Integer A) from 1 to (Number of units in Group), do (Actions)
              • Loop - Actions
                • Set Unit = (Random unit from Group)
                • Unit - Cause (Picked unit) to damage Unit, dealing (6.00 x (Real(Integer))) damage of attack type Spells and damage type Normal
                • Unit - Create 1 Dummy for (Owner of (Picked unit)) at Location facing Default building facing degrees
                • Unit - Add Wicked Vines to (Last created unit)
                • Unit - Set level of Wicked Vines for (Last created unit) to Integer
                • Unit - Order (Last created unit) to Neutral Fire Lord - Soul Burn Unit
                • Unit Group - Remove Unit from Group
                • Hashtable - Save (GroveoftheWickedTime - 0.50) as 2 of (Key (Picked unit)) in GroveoftheWicked
          • Else - Actions
            • Hashtable - Clear all child hashtables of child (Key (Picked unit)) in GroveoftheWicked
            • Unit Group - Remove (Picked unit) from GroveoftheWickedGroup
            • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
              • If - Conditions
                • (Number of units in GroveoftheWickedGroup) Equal to 0
              • Then - Actions
                • Trigger - Turn off (This trigger)
              • Else - Actions

And there's the loop.

When I cast it it creates the 7 dummy units but nothing else happens; they don't do damage or create dummies to cast spells on units in the radius.

Can anybody find out what's wrong? +rep would be involved and thanks in advance!

 

[Yixx]

Make sure you Init the hashtable.

 

[Redeemer59]

Make sure you Init the hashtable.

Assuming you mean this, then yes, I already have.

• Hashtables
  • Events
    • Map initialization
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Hashtable - Create a hashtable
    • Set GroveoftheWicked = (Last created hashtable)

 

[Yixx]

You use wrong keys.
(Key location) is wrong. Use (Key (Triggering Unit)) and (Key (Picked Unit))
The same for (Key level) and all those things.

 

[Redeemer59]

You use wrong keys.
(Key location) is wrong. Use (Key (Triggering Unit)) and (Key (Picked Unit))
The same for (Key level) and all those things.

Use (Triggering Unit) in the cast trigger and (Picked Unit) in the effect trigger for all 3 of them? Just tried that and it didn't seem to work.

 

[Maker]

You add last created unit to the unit group, so why would you use "triggering unit" as the key?

Also I don't get why people use

"save something as 0 of key something else in..."

Why don't you use:

save handle of location as location of...

Much easier to follow what's going on.

 

[Redeemer59]

You add last created unit to the unit group, so why would you use "triggering unit" as the key?

Because I want to preserve the level of the ability for the caster so I can apply damage and such based on it.

Also I don't get why people use

"save something as 0 of key something else in..."

Why don't you use:

save handle of location as location of...

Much easier to follow what's going on.

I mostly used strings there just in case it worked because my previous attempts did not.

Problem averted! Turns out I had the wrong idea of how keys worked in the first place. But +rep anyway for trying, guys.

 

[Mechanical Man]

For me hashtables work neither.

I initialized them with

• Hashtable - Create a hashtable
• Set hashtable = (Last created hashtable)

a trigger contains this actions:

• Hashtable - Save (Integer A) as 1 of (Key (Picked unit)) in hashtable

(Integer A) is never zero, while the following action in ordering event trigger writes 0.

• Game - Display to (All players) the text: (String((Key (Load 1 of (Key (Ordered unit)) in hashtable))))

It works correctly if I use custom values however.

 

[TriggerHappy]

@Mechanical Man - Try adding these in each of your triggers.

This one should go in the save trigger.
Custom script: call BJDebugMsg(I2S(GetHandleId(GetEnumUnit())))

And in the load trigger.
Custom script: call BJDebugMsg(I2S(GetHandleId(GetOrderedUnit())))

Tell me if each integers that are displayed are the same.

 

[Mechanical Man]

Yes, they are the same

However I tried in a map with only hashtables and they work. Dunno what interferes with them in current map >.<