Dumb question. Does your who_name entry have a \n at the end of it? > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Lindsey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 7:23 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: A very weird problem with pc_race_table.who_name > > > hey everyone, i'm convinced that this problem is only > hanging around to piss me off... i've been doing some > work on the way our remort system works, and i added > some new races to the race_table and pc_race_table... > i updated the MAX_PC_RACE counter and it's all working > fine, except for one little bitty thing that just > looks ugly... I found that the normal 6 character > who_name in the pc_race_table wouldn't let me display > enough of a race name in the who list for my own > comfort, so i extended it to a 10 letter who_name... i > changed the size of it in the pc_race_type in merc.h, > and in act_info.c i changed the do_who and do_whois > functions to have a %3s %10s %s instead of %3s %6s %s > for the section of level/race/class in the who list... > so i reboot the thing, and almost all my races display > flawlessly, but once it gets down to the last 2 races, on my > dragons (2nd to the last pc_race), it's tacking a \n onto the > who_name when it displays (where it's pulling this from i > have no idea, i ran gdb and stepped through do_whois and > do_who and when i tell it to print the > pc_race_table[wch->race].who_name, it displays fine, no \n, > when it combines it all into the buf variable, it's got a > \n), so they display like > this: > > <310 Dragon > IMP> Velveeta blahblahtitlehere. > > And for my last race in the table, where it should be > saying YoungBlood, which is the who_name for that > chunk of race, it's chopping it down to 9 char's > instead of 10, so it displays as such: > > <310 YoungBloo IMP> Velveeta blahblahtitlehere. > > now, there are 5 other races who's who_names display > flawlessly, and i've double-checked the length of all of them > in const.c and they're all identical length, so why they're > displaying this way i have no idea, i'm hoping one of you do :D > > wavewave > Vel. > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/
-- ROM mailing list [email protected] http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom
