pass info to pop-up?

[Lutefisk Mafia]

I have a python generated popup message that pops up when a unit qualifies for a certain status on a doTurn() iteration.

How might I pass the name of the unit to the TXT entry for the popup?

I think that I can grab the name by using a pUnit.getName() function, but don't know how to get my popup text to use this.

Anyone know how this is done?

Thanks!

 

[xienwolf]

Would have to see the code really to say precisely how to handle it, but I assume this is all in python? If so, after your "TXT_KEY_BLAHBLAH" you have a , (), you can place data in the () which is then useable in the TXT_KEY as %s, %d, %D or whatever.

So the trick here would be that either you are building the popup IN doTurn(), so the variable should be handy to use right away, or you are calling a function FROM doTurn(), in which case if the function is JUST for building your popup, you'll add a variable to pass into the function.

 

[Lutefisk Mafia]

Here is the base code:

cf.addPlayerPopup(CyTranslator().getText("TXT_KEY_EVENT_WB_DUNGEON_ADVENTURE_FOUND_SECRET_DOOR",()), iPlayer)

appears as a line in the onTurn(self): function

and the TXT entry looks like this:

    <TEXT>
        <Tag>TXT_KEY_EVENT_WB_DUNGEON_ADVENTURE_FOUND_SECRET_DOOR</Tag>
        <English>You found a secret door!</English>
        <French>Add text</French>
        <German>Add text</German>
        <Italian>Add text</Italian>
        <Spanish>Add text</Spanish>
    </TEXT>

This works fine. But I want to take a PUnit.getName() string pulled from a pUnit that appears earlier in the loop that leads up to the popup -- and add it as a part of the popup.

So right now the popup box just contains:

You found a secret door!

I want it to add the name of the unit that found it, so it would look like:

Spongebob (Myconid) found a secret door!

 

[xienwolf]

cf.addPlayerPopup(CyTranslator().getText("TXT_KEY_EVENT_WB_DUNGEON_ADVENTURE_FOUND_SECRET_DOOR",([COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]pUnit.getName()[/COLOR])), iPlayer)

    <TEXT>
        <Tag>TXT_KEY_EVENT_WB_DUNGEON_ADVENTURE_FOUND_SECRET_DOOR</Tag>
        <English>[COLOR="#00bfff"]%s [/COLOR]found a secret door!</English>
        <French>Add text</French>
        <German>Add text</German>
        <Italian>Add text</Italian>
        <Spanish>Add text</Spanish>
    </TEXT>

 

[Lutefisk Mafia]

If I put a %s in the TXT field it actually shows up as "%s" no matter what.

If I put a %s1, like I see in other TXT entries, it shows up as "???" in the popup message.

But no matter what I put in the python popup call, it causes errors that make the entire mechanism not work.

Here is what is in doTurn:

		iPlayer = 0 #Kandros
		pPlayer = gc.getPlayer(iPlayer)
		py = PyPlayer(iPlayer)
		for pUnit in py.getUnitList():
			iX = pUnit.getX()
			iY = pUnit.getY()
			for iiX in range(iX-1, iX+2, 1):
				for iiY in range(iY-1, iY+2, 1):
					p2Plot = CyMap().plot(iiX,iiY)
					for i in range(p2Plot.getNumUnits()):
						p2Unit = p2Plot.getUnit(i)
						if p2Unit.getUnitClassType() == gc.getInfoTypeForString('UNITCLASS_SLAVE') and p2Plot.getFeatureType() == gc.getInfoTypeForString('FEATURE_WALLS'):
							p2Unit.kill(False,0)
							p2Plot.setFeatureType(-1, -1)
							cf.addPlayerPopup(CyTranslator().getText("TXT_KEY_EVENT_WB_DUNGEON_ADVENTURE_FOUND_SECRET_DOOR", (pUnit.getName())), iPlayer)

what am I missing here?

The code is supposed to look at all of the player's units when it advances to the next turn (this is okay -- it is a scenario and there will never be very many units).

For each unit, it looks at the adjacent plots. If any of those plots contains both Walls and a Slave unit, the Slave is killed, the Wall disappears, and the popup triggers. (I am using Slaves in a special way instead of warning posts and jungle altars, which I can't stand.)

This mechanism works -- I have tested it extensively. But I just want to pass the name of the unit that triggered the secret door to the text of the Popup message. I have messed around with this for over an hour and a half, trying different permutations and it is driving me nuts.

Any insight you can offer would be welcome.

 

[EmperorFool]

If I put a %s in the TXT field it actually shows up as "%s" no matter what.

If I put a %s1, like I see in other TXT entries, it shows up as "???" in the popup message.

The %s1 is correct. I do this all the time in XML as when doing the same thing in Python, you don't put the numbers after the %s, %d, et al codes.

The one thing missing is that you need a , to force the second parameter to getText() to be a tuple rather than a single value:

cf.addPlayerPopup(CyTranslator().getText("TXT_KEY_EVENT_WB_DUNGEON_ADVENTURE_FOUND_SECRET_DOOR", (pUnit.getName()[B][COLOR="YellowGreen"],[/COLOR][/B])), iPlayer)

To make sure you can spot it, the comma goes after the getName() call:

. . . (pUnit.getName()[B][COLOR="YellowGreen"],[/COLOR][/B]) . . .

Python needs this whenever a tuple contains a single element.

 

[Lutefisk Mafia]

Thank you! That little comma was all that was missing!

These functions now work perfectly, and I think that they will add quite a bit of flavor to the scenario I am working on.

Once, again, thanks to you both for the advice.

Cheers!