[JASS] question about displaying text message to all players

[SanKakU]

which of the following is better?

call DisplayTextToForce( GetPlayersAll(), udg_texts[11] )

or...
call DisplayTextToPlayer(Player(0), 0, 0, udg_texts[11])
call DisplayTextToPlayer(Player(1), 0, 0, udg_texts[11])
call DisplayTextToPlayer(Player(2), 0, 0, udg_texts[11])
call DisplayTextToPlayer(Player(3), 0, 0, udg_texts[11])
call DisplayTextToPlayer(Player(4), 0, 0, udg_texts[11])
call DisplayTextToPlayer(Player(5), 0, 0, udg_texts[11])
call DisplayTextToPlayer(Player(6), 0, 0, udg_texts[11])
call DisplayTextToPlayer(Player(7), 0, 0, udg_texts[11])
call DisplayTextToPlayer(Player(8), 0, 0, udg_texts[11])
call DisplayTextToPlayer(Player(9), 0, 0, udg_texts[11])
call DisplayTextToPlayer(Player(10), 0, 0, udg_texts[11])
call DisplayTextToPlayer(Player(11), 0, 0, udg_texts[11])

i've heard that red functions are to be avoided...but i don't know how to make purple function just one for all those. it's an easy matter for me to copy and paste and alter the number after Player( but i want to do whatever is best for the smoothness and of my map since i don't want it crashing.

i've been starting to learn a bit about vjass and a tutorial explained some ways to play around with the functions a bit but i still have a lot to learn about all the various functions...

 

[Dr Super Good]

Try call DisplayTextToPlayer(GetLocalPlayer(), 0, 0, udg_texts[11])

As that will assure that it runs only for every player in the game and only that line has to be made.

Should have no reason to desync as well.

 

[SanKakU]

excellent...any good idea for making ForForce functions without red functions?

i'm planning to vjass up this trigger so don't worry about the stupid function name:
call ForForce( GetPlayersAllies(Player(2)), function Trig_resources_Func004002 )

so GetPlayersAllies is a red function. i was looking into trying to use ForForce but i'm not sure how to effectively choose the players with that without using red functions. if you can give me some examples that would be great and by the way what i need is for it to have the two forces are Player 0, 1, and 10, and the other force is Player 2-9 and 11.

this would help so much with so many triggers i think if you could solve this thing here!

anyway i'm pretty sure getplayersallies is better than whatever i was using before so if i have to i might still use it...but i wonder if there is a better way.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Why dont you just look and see how the red functions work, afterall they are basically functions made by blizzard which use natives.

 

[SanKakU]

yeah sometimes i do check that out...i have looked them up with the function list.
so basically if the red ones use few extra functions like 5 or less it's not so bad but when it gets to be like a page long it's bad using them, right?

 

[Element of Water]

No the longer ones are probably better to use because they do a lot of work for you. In the case of the shorter ones, its just a wasted function call...

 

[Dr Super Good]

Some of the longer ones preform excess opperations which you do not need. Thus you sometimes might want to pretty much copy them and then cut out the usless stuff you dont use (in the case of multiboard opperations).

 

[Element of Water]

That is true, but for texttags, for example, the BJ is much easier to use than the natives...