Team Balancer by Low Frags v4.0 [+CSDM Support] - Page 3

**Arkshine** · *Last edited by Arkshine; 05-03-2012 at 05:24.*

Don't remember your old code.

About :

g_bCsdmEnabled = g_iCsdmConVarPointer && get_pcvar_num( g_iCsdmConVarPointer );

That's something you should put where it's used. The cvar could be changed anytime.

You should avoid set_task for task with "b" flag. Creating a dummy entity and let it think would be more appropriate.

claudiuhks · 05-03-2012 , 05:24 Re: Team Balancer by Low Frags v4.0 [+CSDM support]

Okay, but is not better to get csdm_enabled's value instead of hooking it using get_cvar_pointer?

**Arkshine** · *Last edited by Arkshine; 05-03-2012 at 05:40.*

It's what you do already with get_pcvar_num( g_iCsdmConVarPointer ).

get_cvar_pointer retrieves just the pointer of the cvar. It's kind of same value what returns register_cvar for example. But here, such cvar is already registered with csdm, therefore we get it's pointer so we can use get_pcvar_* natives to retrieve the value.
You could have use get_cvar_num() one time in plugin_init() for example, but since you need call it where it's used, get_cvar_num will be inefficient (remember, such get_cvar_* natives loops on all the registered cvars and check the name to return it's pointer). In this case, more efficient to retrieve one time the cvar pointer, so we can get the value like you do with your others cvars.

In others words :

- If you need to get/set one time (like in plugin_init function) an external cvar value : use [set|get]_cvar_*() natives.
- If you need to get/set several times an external cvar value : use get_cvar_pointer in plugin_init() and use [set|get]_pcvar*() natives in your code.