[vJASS] Struct storage...

[mckill2009]

OK, here's the situation...

I cast a spell then the struct/timer holds every data of the spell such as damage/AoE etc...via SetTimerData of TimerUtils...the spell also summons dummy units every second, when the dummy unit dies it damages enemies using GroupEnumUnitsInRange...

My question is, how to transfer/get the data stored from the struct or GetTimerData(t) to the dummy without using hashtables so that the dummy can damage the enemies?...

the code has this event...

call TriggerRegisterAnyUnitEventBJ(t1, EVENT_PLAYER_UNIT_SPELL_EFFECT)
call TriggerRegisterAnyUnitEventBJ(t2, EVENT_PLAYER_UNIT_DEATH)

 

[dudeim]

Use an AIDS struct. That's probably the way you want to go

 

[Adiktuz]

you can always start a new timer for each dummy which expires after 1 second or whatever, and then just kill the dummy when that timer ends and do the desired effects... or you can make an array member of the struct to store the dummies of an instance, and maybe another array member to set/check the life span of the dummy...

 

[mckill2009]

the thing is I dont want to use another library such as AIDS and alike...but maybe Adiktuz's new timer will work and I dont need to add the EVENT_PLAYER_UNIT_DEATH trigger...hmm OK I'll try that, but if not then hashtable is my last choice, thank you people...be back a bit...

 

[Adiktuz]

a drawback might be that it will reduce the number of working spell instances that you could have, (as each instance will take more than 1 TimerUtils instance)

if ur not fine with that, I think using hashes is not a bad idea... but using Table is a better idea if it comes down to hashes...

 

[mckill2009]

actually I already used hash and it worked but like I said, I dont want to use it 'if' there's no better alternative, I finished creating a second timer like your suggestion, but the damage is not dealt in perfect timing...so I turn back to hash...thanks anyway...

 

[Adiktuz]

the delay would depend on the animation of the dummy... ^_^