MSG Box

Matrix Games Forums

Forums Register Login Photo Gallery Member List Search Calendars FAQ

My Profile Inbox Address Book My Subscription My Forums Log Out

MSG Box

View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest

Users viewing this topic: none

Printable Version

All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> Command: Modern Operations series >> Mods and Scenarios >> Lua Legion >> MSG Box

Page: [1]

Message

<< Older Topic Newer Topic >>

MSG Box - 3/13/2021 8:40:36 PM

vettim89
Matrix Legion of Merit

Posts: 3615
Joined: 7/14/2007
From: Toledo, Ohio
Status: offline

Is there a way to embed game data into a msg box message? For example a message pops up when a ship has approached within a mile of it and the message reads: "Merchant ship (ship.name) reports that enemy naval forces are ordering them to stop?" The ship.name would be the ship being asked to stop

_____________________________

"We have met the enemy and they are ours" - Commodore O.H. Perry

Post #: 1

RE: MSG Box - 3/13/2021 11:48:03 PM

michaelm75au
Moderator

Posts: 13500
Joined: 5/5/2001
From: Melbourne, Australia
Status: offline

In a Lua script:
local ship = SE_GetUnit({name='SS Minow'})
local msg = 'Merchant ship (' .. ship.name .. ') reports that enemy naval forces are ordering them to stop'
ScenEdit_MsgBox (msg,0)

_____________________________

Michael

(in reply to vettim89)

Post #: 2

RE: MSG Box - 5/9/2021 11:40:32 AM

butch4343
Matrix Veteran

Posts: 327
Joined: 3/26/2015
Status: offline

Michael,

I wonder if you might be able to help me with something similar, I know am always asking for help, I have been learning , watched a couple of videos on you tube about scripting functions and am taking baby steps lol but huge leaps for me lol

I have discovered how to create a special action msg for a player and it works fine for fixed responses, ie XXX now added to airfield YYY

I want to be able to get a special action that will return a score, so I can use the following to print the score in the console

>> local y= ScenEdit_GetScore('Loop')
print(y)
53

And I can use ScenEdit_SpecialMessage('Loop','The Score Is') to get a pop up special action box that says The Score Is

What I cant see is how to combine the result of the score with the message , I tried :

local a= ScenEdit_GetScore('Loop')

ScenEdit_SpecialMessage('Loop','The Score Is ..(a)')

I bet this will be a real easy thing as well

That treats the whole lot as a string so I get 'The Score Is ..(a)'

So I guess what am asking is how do I add a string and a variable in a message?

I have tried
ScenEdit_SpecialMessage('Loop','The Score Is' and a) that got me a
ERROR: [string "Console"]:4: Invalid arguments to method call

Ive checked the Github page and the LUA documentation page and even tried a google search to no avail.I bet this will be a real easy thing as well

Regards

Butch

(in reply to michaelm75au)

Post #: 3

RE: MSG Box - 5/9/2021 11:17:51 PM

KnightHawk75
Matrix Elite Guard

Posts: 1450
Joined: 11/15/2018
Status: offline

quote:

ORIGINAL: butch4343

...
What I cant see is how to combine the result of the score with the message , I tried :

local a= ScenEdit_GetScore('Loop')
ScenEdit_SpecialMessage('Loop','The Score Is ..(a)')
I bet this will be a real easy thing as well

That treats the whole lot as a string so I get 'The Score Is ..(a)'

So I guess what am asking is how do I add a string and a variable in a message?
....

When you want to append
Var .. ThingYouWantToAppend
examples:

-- print "Sometext " 1 through 10 
for i=1,10 do
  print("SomeText " .. i);
end
-- your example:
local a= ScenEdit_GetScore('Loop');
ScenEdit_SpecialMessage('Loop','The Score is '  .. a)

-- your example no intermediate var: 
ScenEdit_SpecialMessage('Loop','The Score is '  .. tostring(ScenEdit_GetScore('Loop') );

-- your example no intermediate var with old school html mark up to color Score text as Green: 
ScenEdit_SpecialMessage("Loop",'<P>The Score is <FONT color="#00FF00">'  .. tostring(ScenEdit_GetScore('Loop') .. '</FONT></P>'));

This is pretty dated (written for 5.0) but all the basic language concepts are mostly still the same in 5.3.x
Programming in Lua 5.0: https://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html#P1 (can find later versions on web or buy them.)
Concatenation: https://www.lua.org/pil/3.4.html

Lua 5.3.x manual (for the things that are different in 5.3): https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/

< Message edited by KnightHawk75 -- 5/10/2021 12:31:58 AM >

(in reply to butch4343)

Post #: 4

RE: MSG Box - 5/9/2021 11:48:51 PM

KnightHawk75
Matrix Elite Guard

Posts: 1450
Joined: 11/15/2018
Status: offline

BTW for those wanting to know what the options are for the numeric option values for MsgBox, and the exact return values when different things are pressed here they.
-- 6+ will result to 0 \ ie OkOnly.

--[[
gKH.Constants.MsgBoxType={}
gKH.Constants.MsgBoxType.OKOnly=0;
gKH.Constants.MsgBoxType.OKCancel=1;
gKH.Constants.MsgBoxType.AbortRetryIgnore=2;
gKH.Constants.MsgBoxType.YesNoCancel=3;
gKH.Constants.MsgBoxType.YesNoOnly=4;
gKH.Constants.MsgBoxType.RetryCancel=5;
gKH.Constants.MsgBoxResult={}
gKH.Constants.MsgBoxResult.OK = "OK";
gKH.Constants.MsgBoxResult.No = "No";
gKH.Constants.MsgBoxResult.Yes = "Yes";
gKH.Constants.MsgBoxResult.Cancel = "Cancel";
gKH.Constants.MsgBoxResult.Retry = "Retry";
gKH.Constants.MsgBoxResult.Ignore = "Ignore";
--]]

Example of getting input from user, and checking which button was pressed after you repeat their entry back to them.

local msgboxresult = ScenEdit_MsgBox("You entered the text: \n\r" .. tostring(ScenEdit_InputBox("Please enter some text:")),
4);
if msgboxresult == "Yes" then 
  ScenEdit_MsgBox('You pressed Yes.',0);
elseif msgboxresult == "No" then 
  ScenEdit_MsgBox('You pressed No.',0);
elseif msgboxresult == "Cancel" then 
  ScenEdit_MsgBox('Hey, you close the window before answering!',0);
else 
  ScenEdit_MsgBox('Um, we should never get here.',0);
end

< Message edited by KnightHawk75 -- 5/9/2021 11:49:11 PM >

(in reply to KnightHawk75)

Post #: 5

RE: MSG Box - 5/12/2021 11:11:37 AM

butch4343
Matrix Veteran

Posts: 327
Joined: 3/26/2015
Status: offline

Knighthawk,

Thanks for this, I could'nt figure out the link between the two. As always your help has been invaluable mate.

Regards

Butch

(in reply to KnightHawk75)

Post #: 6