Multiboard data update help

[Spartipilo]

Hi!

I'm making a TD where each tower has Experience, Kills and Damage dealt saved in a Hashtable.

I want to display in the multiboard

1- The name of the tower with most kills (With Owner Color).
2- The name of the tower with most experience (With Owner Color)
3- The name of the tower that has dealt more damage (With Owner Color)
4- The number of hostile creeps alive
5- The number of lives left.

I think it's better if I do it as a periodic trigger every 1 second. I don't want to update the kill row everytime a unit dies, and the experience row everytime a tower gets experience, and the damage row everytime a tower deals damage. I think it's lighter to do it as a periodic trigger.

I already know how to display the player color, my main doubt is: How do I know which tower has the most kills, damage, or exp? How do I compare all of them and know which one has the highest value in the slots (indexes) used in the hashtable to save those values into the tower Handle?.

 

[WaterKnight]

Either you loop through the data (save all towers in a list before) or you store the max holder directly on the specific event: damage event --> new damage > last max damage --> remember new damage as last max damage and the tower.

 

[Spartipilo]

It's the "Damage dealt" in all the lifetime of the tower. It's stored in Slot 1 of Tower Handle.

I would have to check through all towers Slot 1 and know which one is the highest, and which tower has that value.

 

[WaterKnight]

That refers to solution 1. Yes, you may do it this way.

 

[Spartipilo]

How to? I don't know how to loop to find the highest value.

 

[WaterKnight]

maxTower = null
maxVal = 0

for each tower in towers do{
  if (val(tower) > maxVal) {
    maxTower = tower
    maxVal = val(tower)
  }
}

 

[Spartipilo]

Like this? I know it's a mix of jass and GUI, I just need to know if the general idea works and it's easy + efficient.

Set i = 0
Set MaxDamage = 0.00

Unit - Pick Every Unit in TowerGroup and do:
   Set i = i +1 
   Set Tower[i] = (Picked Unit)

For each Integer A from 1 to (Number of Units in TowersGroup) do (Actions)
   Custom Script: Set int = GetHandleId(Towers[GetForLoopIndexA()])
   Set r = Load 1 of int in Hash
   If r > MaxDamage then
      Set MaxDamage = r
      Set MaxTower = Towers[Integer A]
      Set Owner = Player number of (Owner of MaxTower)
   endif

Moderator: I misstitled this thread asking for a multiboard, and what I need is a formula. I started a new thread http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/world-editor-help-zone-98/how-find-highest-value-214515/ with the correct title and question. You may mix threads this whenever you want or delete this one. Sorry for my mistake.

 

[WaterKnight]

You do not necessarily need the second loop because the first can do it as well but it's okay.

 

[Spartipilo]

Lol, you're right. Thanks a lot for your help and fast answer.

Set i = 0
Set MaxDamage = 0.00

Unit - Pick Every Unit in TowerGroup and do:
  Set i = i +1 
  Set Tower[i] = (Picked Unit)
  Custom Script: Set int = GetHandleId(Towers[i])
  Set r = Load 1 of int in Hash
  If r > MaxDamage then
    Set MaxDamage = r
    Set MaxTower = Towers[i]
    Set Owner = Player number of (Owner of MaxTower)
  endif

 

[WaterKnight]

No, you do not even need to put them in an array.

Set MaxDamage = 0.00
Set MaxTower = null <-- consider the case that no unit is picked

Unit - Pick Every Unit in TowerGroup and do:
  Custom Script: Set int = GetHandleId(GetEnumUnit())
  Set r = Load 1 of int in Hash
  If r > MaxDamage then
    Set MaxDamage = r
    Set MaxTower = (Picked Unit)
    Set Owner = Player number of (Owner of MaxTower)
  endif

 

[Spartipilo]

OMG... Seems like, eventually, it will only take 1 line to make it, doesn't it? Thanks again!