[Geesu]

Anyone else experience this?

Here is my code:

	char msg[128];
	sprintf(msg, "[WAR3FT] You changed your race to : %s\n", race_Names[iRace-1]);

	this->SayText( msg );

The constant:

const char race_Names[MAX_RACES][64] =	{
										"Undead Scourge", 
										"Human Alliance", 
										"Orcish Horde", 
										"Night Elf"
									};

The SayText function:

void CPlayer::SayText( const char *szMsg )
{
	bf_write *msg;
	MRecipientFilter f;
	f.AddPlayer( pIndex );
	msg = engine->UserMessageBegin( (IRecipientFilter *)&f, 3 );
	msg->WriteByte( pIndex );
	msg->WriteString( szMsg );
	msg->WriteByte( true );
	engine->MessageEnd();

}

It just chops off the last letter, if the race is Night Elf, it prints Night El on the screen, BUT when you look in the console it shows the f. wtf?

It's very strange, anyone have any ideas? Also what does the last WriteByte actually mean?

[Manip]

I have... I just "solved" it by placing a space in there.

[Geesu]

Just put a space at the end? K cool that works Weird I must say.

So I should just do:

void CPlayer::SayText( const char *szMsg )
{
	char message[256];
	sprintf(message, "%s \n", szMsg);

	bf_write *msg;
	MRecipientFilter f;
	f.AddPlayer( pIndex );
	msg = engine->UserMessageBegin( (IRecipientFilter *)&f, 3 );
	msg->WriteByte( pIndex );
	msg->WriteString( message );
	msg->WriteByte( true );
	engine->MessageEnd();

}

[XAD]

Originally Posted by Geesu Just put a space at the end? K cool that works Weird I must say.

Actually, it's enough to add a '\n' at the end of the line... if you put a 0 in the last byte and in the first (at least in your example)...

/X

[Geesu]

yea you would think, but I put \0\n and it still cut off the last character.

[XAD]

Originally Posted by Geesu yea you would think, but I put \0\n and it still cut off the last character.

Yeah, of course... read the bf_write/read functions... a string is ending with a \0 so the first one will terminate the string... the next byte \n will be the last parameter byte and your next byte will just be ignored... so remove the \0 in the string and keep the last \n but put a 0 in the last byte parameter...

byte = 0
string = string terminated with a \n\0 (ex "hej\n\0")
byte = 0

/X

[aszsian]

is coding for the war3ft similar to JAVA?

cause im in AP Computer Science and we are studying Java... were only upto arrays but i can program alot of stuff now..


oh yeah it maybe that ur pointer to the display is messed up... maybe u need to add 1 to ur variable.

i wanna learn other programming languages.. like C++.... so i can program into games like u modders

[Tim]

SM will support, among others, JavaScript...
This isn't the same as Java, so you'll have to do some research into Javascript, if that's the
language you want to be programming in...
An alternative is learning C/C++ (isn't it?), which is quite a different approach to programming.
(C++'s OOP-parts are just some tricks they build in, not what they had in mind in the first place)
From what the SourceMod people have said, it's unlikely there'll be Java-plugin-support...
But lets keep things on-topic, shall we?