[JASS] Probelms...

[thelifelessone]

Okay, so I went and learned JASS.
I know all the basics. Only thing I can think that I don't know is "takes" and "returns", which I'm slowly beginning to understand.

But, my problem is I don't know to use any of it.
I don't know how any of the functions work.
The only one I know is "BJDebugMsg()".

I've tried converting GUI into JASS, but it's done nothing for me.
So could someone tell me where I can actually figure out what these things do?

 

[TriggerHappy]

Anything after 'takes' are it's arguments. The returns sends a value out of the function. For example...

function multiply takes real x, real y returns real
    return x*y
endfunction

// in some other actions

local integer i = multiply(5,2)
call BJDebugMsg(I2S(i)) // outputs 10

 

[thelifelessone]

Yeah, but my problem at the moment is don't know what different functions do.

 

[TriggerHappy]

Yeah, but my problem at the moment is don't know what different functions do.

Get JASSNewGen Pack, it contains a function-list.

Their usually self explanatory anyways...

 

[krisserz]

And play into choosing GUI functions and converting them into custom script. This will be easy. It`s not to understand, that

• Unit - Pause Unit

is

call PauseUnit (GetTriggeringUnit(), true)

 

[PurplePoot]

JassCraft.

Anyhow, I don't see what's so hard about discerning function use. CreateUnit creates a unit, KillUnit kills a unit, etc for most of the natives. There are a few which are weird at first, but looking at their parameters generally explains them.

 

[thelifelessone]

I've got JASScraft.
But I just don't understand it all.
I either don't know what it means, or how I use it.
This:

call PauseUnit(GetTriggeringUnit(), true)

The only thing I don't know about that is what "true" does.
I'd convert GUI to JASS, but I wasn't very good at GUI when I first started.
I learned some new things because of JASS, but I'm no master.

 

[krisserz]

true

Pause unit

false

unpause it, so

• Unit - Pause unit

is

call PauseUnit (unit, true)

and

• Unit - Unpause unit

is

call PauseUnit (unit, false)

 

[thelifelessone]

Now that makes sense....

 

[PurplePoot]

I've got JASScraft.
But I just don't understand it all.
I either don't know what it means, or how I use it.
This:

call PauseUnit(GetTriggeringUnit(), true)

The only thing I don't know about that is what "true" does.
I'd convert GUI to JASS, but I wasn't very good at GUI when I first started.
I learned some new things because of JASS, but I'm no master.

Let's refer to the native, then (the above explanation pretty much sucks as it doesn't teach you anything outside of this one native).

native PauseUnit takes unit whichUnit, boolean flag returns nothing

whichUnit is obviously the target. Whenever you see a boolean called "flag", it means that the value true will cause this function to occur and the value false will cause the exact opposite to occur. That is to say that call PauseUnit(JoeUnit,true) will pause JoeUnit while call PauseUnit(JoeUnit,false) will unpause him. Another good example of this is
native SetUnitInvulnerable takes unit whichUnit, boolean flag returns nothing, but the list goes on. Often this will have another name instead (but it will be very obvious); for example,
native SetUnitExploded takes unit whichUnit, boolean exploded returns nothing.