04-06-2003 00:50									#1
	BHG - need unit flag help now :) Support Apolyton, buy GURPS/ Alpha Centauri

Hello again BHG ,

I have started coding (this time, for a public release) the utlity which you can see here, which is, in fact, the RoN editor. And, a question to Jason:

The tag in unitrules.xml . If the user has clicked on some checkboxes, how do I need to output the flags into file? Do I need to sort the flag letters alphabetically, by some other means, or no sorting? Going through the file, I saw cases where it seems to be sorted, and where the pattern seems to be random... that's a pretty subtle thing to be obvious through testing, though, so I'm asking you. Also, the same question for tag.

Thanks in advance .

	04-06-2003 22:33									#2
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Solver,

Sorry for the delay. For the "FLAGS" element, the order does NOT matter. Nor does it matter for "OBJ_MASK". Let me know if you need any more info.

Thanks for the cool work,
J

	04-06-2003 22:35									#3
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Thanks Jason .

Something I've been asked over there in other thread - about renaming units. I understand that I must only allow changing TYPENAME (changes to NAME and GRAPH seem to cause problems). However, whenever TYPENAME is changed in unitrules.xml, do I have to go to typenames.xml and find that string there, also changing it, or what? In other words, I'd appreciate help on how to code unit renaming .

Outstanding support guys .

	04-06-2003 22:55									#4
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Actually, if you only want a cosmetic change to the name, change the one in typenames.xml. The idea is that unitrules.xml is common to all languages. Any values that get displayed are looked up in typenames.xml. Typenames.xml differs by translation.

In case you need it, I've included some code for generating the hashes below.

dword primes[ 50 ] = {
127, 811, 1597, 2131, 2749, 4759, 5527, 5953, 8117, 9539
, 10273, 10753, 11159, 12301, 13217, 14207, 15413, 17681, 18661, 19013
, 21089, 22051, 25111, 25801, 27457, 28057, 29581, 30809, 32611, 34469
, 36067, 37511, 38723, 40093, 41983, 43321, 45083, 47431, 49667, 50767
, 53453, 55469, 57193, 59369, 61987, 65071, 73421, 77849, 84223, 89009
};

dword num_primes = 50;

dword generate_hash (const TCHAR*string)
{
int curchar;
dword total = 0;
TCHAR c;

if (!string) return 0;

for ( curchar = (int)_tcslen(string) - 1; curchar >= 0 ; curchar-- ) {
dword base, base2;
base = curchar % num_primes;

c = string[ curchar ];


base2 = (c % num_primes);
total += primes[base2] * (curchar+1);
total += ( primes[ base ] * c );
}
return total;
}

	04-06-2003 23:00									#5
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Thanks! This is most useful and seems like it helps solve the problems I'm currently having.

Yet again... the most awesome level of support I have ever seen, now I'm just eager to finish my unit editor .