I've read your message a few times and I think I have an idea of what
you are getting at. Here's my guess. You've turned a log into a
list. Then you go through this list, and each time you find a name,
if you haven't seen this name before, then you create a new object
for this player.
You need to create a list of player objects. Start it out empty, and
every time you find a new player, you create a new player object and
add it to the end of the list. And from reading what you wrote, it
sounds like all this code lives inside a behavior.
If this is the case, then you want to do something like this
(completely untested):
property ploPlayers -- property which is a list of player objects
on beginSprite me
-- Do your parsing thing to turn the text into a list, lets call
this list, LogList
ploPlayers = [] -- starts out empty
nLogEntries = count(LogList)
repeat with i = 1 to nLogEntries
thisLogEntry = LogList[i] -- pull out the current entry
nameInThisLogEntry = <however you pull out the name>
nPlayerObjs = count(ploPlayers) -- how many so far
fFoundName = FALSE -- assume we haven't found it yet
repeat with j = 1 to nPlayerObjs
oPlayer = ploPlayers[j]
thisPlayerName = oPlayer.mGetName()
if thisPlayerName = nameInThisEntry then
-- you've found the matching player object, do whatever you
-- you want to, send it a message like this:
-- oPlayer.mSomeMethodName(optional parameters)
-- e.g., oPlayer.mChangeName(newName)
fFoundName = TRUE
next repeat
end if
end repeat
if not(fFoundIt) then -- did not find it, let's create a
new player object
oPlayer = script("playerscript").new(nameInThisLogEntry)
-- and add it to the list of player objects
append(ploPlayerObjs, oPlayer)
end if
end repeat
-- anything else you want to do
end
Then your player script needs to look something like this:
property pName
on new me, theName
pName = theName
end
on mGetName me
return pName
end
on mChangeName me, theNewName
pName = theNewName
end
-- any other handlers you want to have
In answer to your other questions, only the "new" handler needs a
"return me" at the end. And, the call:
s.changeName(oldName, newName)
will only run on the current player script. That's why I suggested
that you create a list of player objects. Each time you parse a
line, you run down the whole list of player objects and query each
one.
Hope this helps,
Irv
At 6:43 PM -0700 8/27/02, Jeremy wrote:
>I have a game log parsing project creating objects to store statictics
>that it gathers from readin a log file(big text file) When it encounters
>a new item in the log, it creates a script object and I have many
>properties in there that I will be using to store separate stats per
>object. I also have some functions within that behavior script that I
>would like to call outside the behavior script. What is the best way to
>call a function that exists inside the behavior script, from outside
>that script? Hope I'm clear enough on the question. The functions I
>would like to call are functions that will modify some properties of the
>object. Heres what I have.
>
>Person chooses the log file, hits a button, this reads the whole log
>file into a list, works great.
>
>Then I go into a repeat loop that goes through the list "line by line"
>and when it finds a line with a new name on it, it creates an object
>like so...
>
>s=script("playerscript").new(playername)
>
>I pass playername to the object so it will store its own name(this
>project is a game log parser).
>
>My behavior script also contains functions that will update the name if
>called and the oldname and newname are passed and are matched with that
>instance.
>
>Anyways, throughout the big repeat loop, each line defines another
>action that has taken place during the round, such as player1 killed
>player2 with whateverweapon.
>
>What would be the best way to call the behavior script from within the
>main repeat loop, so that I can call functions within the behavior
>scripts of the objects, and pass arguments.
>
>Would I just use:
> script("playerscript").changename(oldname,newname)
>
>?
>
>Hoping I explained enough to get some help. Thanks
>
>Jeremy
>
>
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