Well... trying to learn jass...

[12sea21]

I am trying to learn jass but i dont know where to start.... i know some functions... e.g.

    Call CreateNUnitsAtLoc( 1, 'hfoo', Player(0) CenterRect,

somthing like that...

Where to Continue/Start learning jass?:banghead:

 

[Kenny]

Try some tutorials, such as this, this, this, this, this and this.

And these are only from the first two pages of the tutorials section of thehelper.

I recommend the one by vexorian (the second one i think), i've heard its quite good. And maybe the last one as well.

 

[12sea21]

thanks! xD how do hyperlink a word?

 

[Kenny]

Use the button that looks like a little globe with something in front of it, lol not really sure what it is. But it's on the right hand side of the font colour button.

Good luck with your jass'ing.

 

[12sea21]

Thanks.... i +Repped you.
I need some more help though... with this:

call TriggerRegisterTimerEventperiodic( gg_trg_UnitCreate, 2 )

it says : Expected a function name... ??!!?!?

 

[TriggerHappy]

call TriggerRegisterTimerEventperiodic( gg_trg_UnitCreate, 2 )

Is not a function

call TriggerRegisterTimerEvent(gg_trg_UnitCreate, 2, true)

Should work.

 

[SerraAvenger]

Thanks.... i +Repped you.
I need some more help though... with this:

call TriggerRegisterTimerEventperiodic( gg_trg_UnitCreate, 2 )

it says : Expected a function name... ??!!?!?

JASS is case sensitive.

try TriggerRegisterTimerEventPeriodic instead.
Also, the function you call is a so called BJ - it is in Blizzards expansion for the Common API. When you look it up in the API, you see the following:

function TriggerRegisterTimerEventPeriodic takes trigger trig, real timeout returns event
    return TriggerRegisterTimerEvent(trig, timeout, true)
endfunction

So you see all it does is calling a Common.j function with an additional parameter. This behaviour is typical for BJs. As every aditional function call will need more CPU time, this behaviour will slow down your map - so it is best to avoid it and call the native directly with the additional parameter:

call TriggerRegisterTimerEvent( gg_trg_UnitCreate, 2, true)

PS:
BJ = abbrev. for Blizzard JASS
native = a function that talks with the game engine directly, not using any helper functions. You can't code these yourself without modding the engine. All of them are located in the Common.j

 

[12sea21]

cool ill try that, thanks... the Periodic thing was an accident

 

[Sevion]

When you're coding in JASS, you always want to check the spelling and casing. If you type even one thing wrong, you ERROR. :O JASS is that way. You can use JASSCraft. It will automatically capitalize everything etc. And it has function browser.

 

[12sea21]

i do use JC and now i use JassNewGen, i finally made my own trigger!! YES!!! and it didnt work... because of a ' , '. Then i fixed it xD only because of a ',' it didnt work.. gahh

 

[Sevion]

I screwed up my entire system with a missing param once. >_> I took five days trying to figure it out.

 

[12sea21]

woah... what was the parameter?

 

[Sevion]

call GroupEnumUnitsInRect(g, GetWorldBounds(), Condition(Conditions))

Instead of

call GroupEnumUnitsInRect(g, GetWorldBounds(), Condition(function Conditions))

(The "function" part.)

 

[12sea21]

ouch.... 5 days you went over the system... i think Jass is a bit harder to deal with.. *cracks knuckles*

 

[Sevion]

Well, once you get used to it, you start to find errors quicker.

 

[TriggerHappy]

JassHelper finds most of them.

 

[12sea21]

okay.. but i wont need JassHelper yet since i dont write stuff like 20 lines long/big..

 

[TriggerHappy]

20 lines long

Is a bit short.

i wont need JassHelper

If your using newgen , you have JassHelper.

 

[12sea21]

oh... didnt know that.. okay.. cool!! thanks.
@Trigger... go to mapz