Display information

[substance]

So I have a 'callvote system' that allows players to kick other players in a democratic fasion. Once a player initiates a vote I want to display that information to all the players. What I want to display is:

name of player being kicked
time left untill vote ends
how many votes for 'yes'
how many votes for 'no'

Getting that information isnt the problem, displaying it is. I figure I have 3 options in displaying the information:

Timer Dialog - I had one setup with the info in the title but there were a few problems. The title was being cut off due to it being too long and the timer itself was in the ugly '00:00:00' format. If there is a way to extend the timerdialog so i can show more information then i'd gladly go back to this method.

Multiboard - Since the timerdialog didnt work I tried a multiboard since I'm more experience with them and there is a lot mroe control in displaying the information exactly how I want it. However when I created the mutliboard it destroyed my other multiboard so I'm guessing you can only have one at a time?

Leaderboard - Well the other 2 methods failed so I thought I'd try a leaderboard. I've never used these before (not even in GUI) but It might work for what I need, however, I dont really know how to get one working. There's pretty much no JASS examples available so I just wing'd it and ended up with this

             set VotingLeaderBoard = CreateLeaderboard()
             call LeaderboardSetStyle(VotingLeaderBoard,true,true,true,false)
             call LeaderboardSetLabel(VotingLeaderBoard, "test")
             loop
                exitwhen i2 == 12
                call PlayerSetLeaderboard(Player(i),VotingLeaderBoard)
                set i2 = i2 + 1
             endloop
             call LeaderboardAddItem(VotingLeaderBoard,"lol",1,Player(0))
             call LeaderboardDisplay(VotingLeaderBoard, true)

Doesnt work though.

So I guess what my question is, am I stuck using a leaderboard? and if so, how can I get this thing to display .

 

[Nestharus]

Er....

the multiboard should have worked fine ^_^

Here's what I'd personally do

I'd display the timer on the top right corner, the name of the player on the next row below it, then multiple rows below that with a list of the player names in grey ^_^, if they vote green, that's a good vote, if red, that means a vote to kick

Now, I'm not in the mood to program this, but... you should easily be able to do this in a multiboard

Just make the rows wide, only need one multiboard to do this

And, you can have multiple multiboards anyways... lol, so er, just make sure to name them differently.

Honestly, I'd do my idea above. Right now I'm poofed out on JASSing so I just dont' want to code atm, lol ;p

I'm sure you'll get it ^_^, I developed an autoupdating multiboard that sorted the players based on player number, color coded their names, and updated it so that there weren't empty rows when somebody died or left ^)^

If I can do that, I'm sure you can do what you're doing, kk ^_^, what might even be better:

Player Being Kicked                        Timer
-----------------------------------------
Player1(grey/red/green)                 kick/keep    (kick would be red, name
Player2                                       kick/keep         turns red too)
Player3                                       kick/keep
Player4                                       kick/keep
Player5                                       kick/keep
Player6                                       kick/keep
Player7                                       kick/keep
Player8                                       kick/keep
Player10                                     kick/keep
Player11                                     kick/keep
Player12                                     kick/keep
-------------------------------------------

this is assuming Player 9 is the one being kicked ^_^
hmm.... well, as you see, my version has 1 multiboard with 2 columns ^_^
Try that, kk

 

[substance]

hah, thanks for the idea (though, thats a bit more info than what i want to display).

I'll try making 2 multiboards again.. maybe i fuxed something up.

edit** tried having 2 multiboard displaying again, it didnt work. I did, however, get the leaderboard working. It looks ok.. kinda sucks that the title can be but only so long and that the second colum can only have integers.

edit2** It isnt possible to get the leaderboard to display ABOVE my already exisiting multiboard without destroying it is there? Picture

 

[Sooda]

No there isn' t any way that makes leaderboard appear above multiboard or something similar. Just wild idea what even might work is to use "\n" to get on new lane. Maybe by doing so your info will be displayed in many rows but still in one timer window ?