12-10-2002 02:38									#1
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The question has been raised before (here: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthre...?threadid=62653)

Does the function IsHumanPlayer work properly in multiplayer games?

I did some testing tonight and here's what I found... (warning bad news!)

The one and only time the function would work in my setup was when it was a human player's turn (host or not) and the argument tested was his player number. No other player number would work when a human played and neither would it run on the AI's turns but there not even with the AI's player number as an argument.
The error returned is always "_IsHumanPlayer: Wrong number of arguments"
I can only think of some mistake in the code of the function itself which obviously renders it useless for any MP setup then...

	31-12-2002 21:16									#2
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What was the exact code mapfi and did you tested it with DebugSlic=Yes?

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	02-01-2003 20:22									#3
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hm, that was a while ago already... I just wrote something for testing, like a BeginTurn handler that would give me the result of is humanplayer in a message box.

	02-01-2003 23:18									#4
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So it would be something like this (if I use the information from your first post):

code:

HandleEvent(BeginTurn)'Test_IsHumanPlayer'post{
    if(IsHumanPlayer(1)){
         //Do something here
    }
}

code:

HandleEvent(BeginTurn)'Test_IsHumanPlayer'post{
    if(IsHumanPlayer(player[0])){
         //Do something here
    }
}

code:

HandleEvent(BeginTurn)'Test_IsHumanPlayer'post{
    player[0] = 1;
    if(IsHumanPlayer(player[0])){
         //Do something here
    }
}

code:

HandleEvent(BeginTurn)'Test_IsHumanPlayer'post{
    if(IsHumanPlayer(g.player)){
         //Do something here
    }
}

	02-01-2003 23:41									#5
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I honestly can't remember - I would think I did something like

code:

HandleEvent(BeginTurn) {
for (i = 1; i <= Num; i = i + 1) {
	player[0] = i;
	result[i] = IsHumanPlayer(player[0]);
	}
message(g.player, 'test');
}

	03-01-2003 01:46									#6
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Well this code will work as you described. Whenever the BeginTurn event is called a message is send to the current player (that's g.player) and no other player will recieve the message. In theory the result array should contain a lot of zeros and ones, but so far I don't see what do you want to do with the result array.

A code that could test it would be something like this:

code:

HandleEvent(BeginTurn)'Test_IsHumanPlayer'post{
     if(IsHumanPlayer(player[0])){
           Message(1, 'Test_IsHumanPlayer');
     }
     else{
           Message(1, 'Test_IsNotHumanPlayer');
     }
}