TextTag limit?

[AoW_Hun7312]

Is there a limit to the amount of text tags that can be displayed at once? I have text tags being created whenever a unit is damaged to show the amount of damage they take, but it will sometimes disappear or not appear at all.

http://pastebin.com/R3YT4PEr

 

[GetTriggerUnit-]

100 per player at once if I recall well

 

[Laiev]

98 or something about that... since the texttag 98 and 99 don't work (if I remember well, Anachron explain it in some thread at the hive)

 

[AoW_Hun7312]

Does this limit not reset? I have way less than 100 per player, but this still happens.

 

[Sgqvur]

Are you destroying/recycling them properly?

 

[Laiev]

Does this limit not reset? I have way less than 100 per player, but this still happens.

Are you destroying/recycling them properly?

if u're destroying/recycling like Sggvur said, the limit always reset...


I suggest u show the text of the damage just to the owner of the source and for other things, use Image instead of TextTag

 

[AoW_Hun7312]

The pastebin has the code in it.

 

[Laiev]

- Unknown paste ID, it may have expired or been deleted!

post the code here... not in other site

 

[tooltiperror]

Then the page won't load, so he has to link off site.

 

[Ashlebede]

(Off-topic) AoW, I suggest that you get your own sub-domain on pastebin.com. That makes it easier for us to keep track of the codes on there and makes them easier to retrieve if we "lose" them.

 

[AoW_Hun7312]

Here it is again: http://pastebin.com/tepNd9CK

 

[Ashlebede]

(More off-topic) You don't nullify the [ljass]local player p[/ljass].

(On-topic) Try symplifying the whole thing. Un-comment what's inside the if and replace it with a texttag creation with no settings other than text. Then, try step-by-step debugging by adding one thing at a time and always testing.

(More off-topic) Maybe you could recycle texttags in some way (just like some recycle timers, you could set a texttag's visibility to [ljass]false[/ljass] and re-use it later...)

 

[AoW_Hun7312]

(More off-topic) You don't nullify the [ljass]local player p[/ljass].

(On-topic) Try symplifying the whole thing. Un-comment what's inside the if and replace it with a texttag creation with no settings other than text. Then, try step-by-step debugging by adding one thing at a time and always testing.

(More off-topic) Maybe you could recycle texttags in some way (just like some recycle timers, you could set a texttag's visibility to [ljass]false[/ljass] and re-use it later...)

I thought that players didn't need to be nulled?

 

[Ashlebede]

Possible, I never checked. But my guess'd be every type of handle needs to be nullified. Ask Dr. Ho.

 

[AoW_Hun7312]

Updated: http://pastebin.com/EWYPxKtz

I added in a BJDebugMsg, and the handle count still reaches zero eventually.

 

[Laiev]

//==============================================================================
//  TEXT TAG - Floating text system by Cohadar - v5.0
//==============================================================================
//
//  PURPOUSE:
//       * Displaying floating text - the easy way
//       * Has a set of useful and commonly needed texttag functions
//  
//  CREDITS:
//       * DioD - for extracting proper color, fadepoint and lifespan parameters
//         for default warcraft texttags (from miscdata.txt)
//
//  HOW TO IMPORT:
//       * Just create a trigger named TextTag
//         convert it to text and replace the whole trigger text with this one
//==============================================================================

library TextTag

globals    
    // for custom centered texttags
    private constant real MEAN_CHAR_WIDTH = 5.5
    private constant real MAX_TEXT_SHIFT = 200.0
    private constant real DEFAULT_HEIGHT = 16.0

    // for default texttags
    private constant real   SIGN_SHIFT = 16.0
    private constant real   FONT_SIZE = 0.024
    private constant string MISS = "miss"
endglobals

//===========================================================================
//   Custom centered texttag on (x,y) position
//   color is in default wc3 format, for example "|cFFFFCC00"
//===========================================================================
public function XY takes real x, real y, string text, string color returns nothing
    local texttag tt = CreateTextTag()
    local real shift = RMinBJ(StringLength(text)*MEAN_CHAR_WIDTH, MAX_TEXT_SHIFT)
    call SetTextTagText(tt, color+text, FONT_SIZE)
    call SetTextTagPos(tt, x-shift, y, DEFAULT_HEIGHT)
    call SetTextTagVelocity(tt, 0.0, 0.04)
    call SetTextTagVisibility(tt, true)
    call SetTextTagFadepoint(tt, 2.5)
    call SetTextTagLifespan(tt, 4.0)
    call SetTextTagPermanent(tt, false)
    set tt = null
endfunction

//===========================================================================
//   Custom centered texttag above unit
//===========================================================================
public function Unit takes unit whichUnit, string text, string color returns nothing
    local texttag tt = CreateTextTag()
    local real shift = RMinBJ(StringLength(text)*MEAN_CHAR_WIDTH, MAX_TEXT_SHIFT)
    call SetTextTagText(tt, color+text, FONT_SIZE)
    call SetTextTagPos(tt, GetUnitX(whichUnit)-shift, GetUnitY(whichUnit), DEFAULT_HEIGHT)
    call SetTextTagVelocity(tt, 0.0, 0.04)
    call SetTextTagVisibility(tt, true)
    call SetTextTagFadepoint(tt, 2.5)
    call SetTextTagLifespan(tt, 4.0)
    call SetTextTagPermanent(tt, false)    
    set tt = null
endfunction

//===========================================================================
//  Standard wc3 gold bounty texttag, displayed only to killing player 
//===========================================================================
public function GoldBounty takes unit whichUnit, integer bounty, player killer returns nothing
    local texttag tt = CreateTextTag()
    local string text = "+" + I2S(bounty)
    call SetTextTagText(tt, text, FONT_SIZE)
    call SetTextTagPos(tt, GetUnitX(whichUnit)-SIGN_SHIFT, GetUnitY(whichUnit), 0.0)
    call SetTextTagColor(tt, 255, 220, 0, 255)
    call SetTextTagVelocity(tt, 0.0, 0.03)
    call SetTextTagVisibility(tt, GetLocalPlayer()==killer)
    call SetTextTagFadepoint(tt, 2.0)
    call SetTextTagLifespan(tt, 3.0)
    call SetTextTagPermanent(tt, false)
    set text = null
    set tt = null
endfunction

//==============================================================================
public function LumberBounty takes unit whichUnit, integer bounty, player killer returns nothing
    local texttag tt = CreateTextTag()
    local string text = "+" + I2S(bounty)
    call SetTextTagText(tt, text, FONT_SIZE)
    call SetTextTagPos(tt, GetUnitX(whichUnit)-SIGN_SHIFT, GetUnitY(whichUnit), 0.0)
    call SetTextTagColor(tt, 0, 200, 80, 255)
    call SetTextTagVelocity(tt, 0.0, 0.03)
    call SetTextTagVisibility(tt, GetLocalPlayer()==killer)
    call SetTextTagFadepoint(tt, 2.0)
    call SetTextTagLifespan(tt, 3.0)
    call SetTextTagPermanent(tt, false)
    set text = null
    set tt = null
endfunction

//===========================================================================
public function ManaBurn takes unit whichUnit, integer dmg returns nothing
    local texttag tt = CreateTextTag()
    local string text = "-" + I2S(dmg)
    call SetTextTagText(tt, text, FONT_SIZE)
    call SetTextTagPos(tt, GetUnitX(whichUnit)-SIGN_SHIFT, GetUnitY(whichUnit), 0.0)
    call SetTextTagColor(tt, 82, 82 ,255 ,255)
    call SetTextTagVelocity(tt, 0.0, 0.04)
    call SetTextTagVisibility(tt, true)
    call SetTextTagFadepoint(tt, 2.0)
    call SetTextTagLifespan(tt, 5.0)
    call SetTextTagPermanent(tt, false)    
    set text = null
    set tt = null
endfunction

//===========================================================================
public function Miss takes unit whichUnit returns nothing
    local texttag tt = CreateTextTag()
    call SetTextTagText(tt, MISS, FONT_SIZE)
    call SetTextTagPos(tt, GetUnitX(whichUnit), GetUnitY(whichUnit), 0.0)
    call SetTextTagColor(tt, 255, 0, 0, 255)
    call SetTextTagVelocity(tt, 0.0, 0.03)
    call SetTextTagVisibility(tt, true)
    call SetTextTagFadepoint(tt, 1.0)
    call SetTextTagLifespan(tt, 3.0)
    call SetTextTagPermanent(tt, false)
    set tt = null
endfunction

//===========================================================================
public function CriticalStrike takes unit whichUnit, integer dmg returns nothing
    local texttag tt = CreateTextTag()
    local string text = I2S(dmg) + "!"
    call SetTextTagText(tt, text, FONT_SIZE)
    call SetTextTagPos(tt, GetUnitX(whichUnit), GetUnitY(whichUnit), 0.0)
    call SetTextTagColor(tt, 255, 0, 0, 255)
    call SetTextTagVelocity(tt, 0.0, 0.04)
    call SetTextTagVisibility(tt, true)
    call SetTextTagFadepoint(tt, 2.0)
    call SetTextTagLifespan(tt, 5.0)
    call SetTextTagPermanent(tt, false)
    set text = null
    set tt = null    
endfunction

//===========================================================================
public function ShadowStrike takes unit whichUnit, integer dmg, boolean initialDamage returns nothing
    local texttag tt = CreateTextTag()
    local string text = I2S(dmg)
    if initialDamage then
        set text = text + "!"
    endif
    call SetTextTagText(tt, text, FONT_SIZE)
    call SetTextTagPos(tt, GetUnitX(whichUnit), GetUnitY(whichUnit), 0.0)
    call SetTextTagColor(tt, 160, 255, 0, 255)
    call SetTextTagVelocity(tt, 0.0, 0.04)
    call SetTextTagVisibility(tt, true)
    call SetTextTagFadepoint(tt, 2.0)
    call SetTextTagLifespan(tt, 5.0)
    call SetTextTagPermanent(tt, false)    
    set text = null
    set tt = null
endfunction


endlibrary

have fun

 

[Ashlebede]

PURPOUSE: (purpose)
MEAN_CHAR_WIDTH (min_char_width)

I'd say if a system has major grammar or spelling mistakes in it, it ain't very reliable... just my opinion, though...

And how does it increase the max number of texttags per player ? This just seems to be funcs to create Blizzard-like texttags... >>D:

 

[Laiev]

not only... and this don't increase the max number of texttags per player... is just a library that help people with texttag since lots of people forget some function of texttag which is vital...

also with this u can create the tt and clear it without anything else...

and it's approved at wc3c.. so it's leakless and work fine

 

[Ashlebede]

But it doesn't solve the problem... >>D:

 

[Laiev]

what is your problem?

- you reach the limit of texttag fast?
--- you should display the texttag just for that player instead all player

- you want to increase the limite of texttag?
--- sorry but it's impossible since the game warcraft3 is already finished lol

- other ways?
--- you can use TextSplat