Two quick questions

[Dead-Inside]

Right, I'm trying to do personal racestimes per map.

I want two things; first of all I want my .ini files in a folder called records. I haven't managed to do this.

Secondly, I need custom filenames based on playernames. Every time a person finishes a map and gets a time, I want it to write in the file with his name, under the race name. I haven't managed to do this.

I even tried, failing the above, to keep it all in one file but I still failed to create headlines for playernames to keep the maps and times under.

Apart from this, I haven't found any functionlisting anywhere? gettok, iif, replace, etc, I haven't found any description of them anywhere apart from iif on wikipedia... Anyone have a linky for me?

Thanks,

Dead-Inside

[Scooby]

Right, I'm trying to do personal racestimes per map.

I want two things; first of all I want my .ini files in a folder called records. I haven't managed to do this.

Secondly, I need custom filenames based on playernames. Every time a person finishes a map and gets a time, I want it to write in the file with his name, under the race name. I haven't managed to do this.

I even tried, failing the above, to keep it all in one file but I still failed to create headlines for playernames to keep the maps and times under.

Apart from this, I haven't found any functionlisting anywhere? gettok, iif, replace, etc, I haven't found any description of them anywhere apart from iif on wikipedia... Anyone have a linky for me?

Thanks,

Dead-Inside

all u need do is save the data to the ini in the format:

nick + race name = time

u can specify the location in the line that reads and writes this:

!writeini -n " $+ $scriptdir $+ times.ini" followed by ur info

this will save all times to 1 ini, from what ur saying u want to have 1 file per map? not sure why, since u can add it all to 1 file, ur gonna end up with 100's of ini's.

if this is still a little beyond ur skills, or youre still not sure what to do, u can add my msn and i'l help u out from there.

[email protected]

[Squall]

all u need do is save the data to the ini in the format:

nick + race name = time

u can specify the location in the line that reads and writes this:

!writeini -n " $+ $scriptdir $+ times.ini" followed by ur info

actually its !writeini -n " $+ $scriptdir $+ records\$mta.nick($1,$2).ini" blah blah blah

too of wat i saw

[Dead-Inside]

Please don't tell me I just forwardslashed and it should have been backwardslash?

Because otherwise that's exactly what I did.

Anyway, if I can't get that working again I'll add you to MSN, thanks.

[Dead-Inside]

Right, so I'm probably going to get this working with a single file but that wasn't my intent.

At least I understand how the hell I can set it up to work properly now.

Anyway, when doing

!writeini -n " $+ $scriptdir $+ records\$mta.nick($1,$2).ini"

it actually types $mta.nick($1,$2).ini as the file name.

Should be a way around that I recon but I'm clueless as to how so I'm not even going to try. I am, however, going to ask if anyone knows?

[Scooby]

Right, so I'm probably going to get this working with a single file but that wasn't my intent.

At least I understand how the hell I can set it up to work properly now.

Anyway, when doing

!writeini -n " $+ $scriptdir $+ records\$mta.nick($1,$2).ini"

it actually types $mta.nick($1,$2).ini as the file name.

Should be a way around that I recon but I'm clueless as to how so I'm not even going to try. I am, however, going to ask if anyone knows?

yea u just need to add a $+ between the backslash and the $mta.nick

!writeini -n " $+ $scriptdirrecords\ $+ $mta.nick($1,$2).ini" race mapname time

that should do the trick and get u individual ini's per player in the folder named records.

[Dead-Inside]

It didn't.

And I'm not liking mIRC scripting. It's not doing what I'm telling it to because it's being stubborn so I have to work around it. I am making progress though.

[Scooby]

It didn't.

And I'm not liking mIRC scripting. It's not doing what I'm telling it to because it's being stubborn so I have to work around it. I am making progress though.

sry my bad, u need to also add a $+ between $mta.nick($1,$2) and .ini

so its:

!writeini -n " $+ $scriptdirrecords\ $+ $mta.nick($1,$2) $+ .ini" race mapname time

have fun:)

[Dead-Inside]

Doesn't matter. Already have it up and running, logging to two files though.

I have another question. How would I call to get the time of my server? I'd like a !time command that gives the server clock As I said I have no access to any lists so .

Also, would

set %i = $calc($gettok($readini($scriptdir $+ records\myfilename.ini,$mta.nick($1,$2),$replace($mta.race($1),$chr(32),-)),1,32) - $mta.time($1,$2))

work like I suppose it would? I'd like the mid-time number so that I can tell people how far away they were from the record. Last time I tried I did something completely different and it didn't work, I'm assuming the above would though?

[Scooby]

Doesn't matter. Already have it up and running, logging to two files though.

I have another question. How would I call to get the time of my server? I'd like a !time command that gives the server clock As I said I have no access to any lists so .

Also, would

set %i = $calc($gettok($readini($scriptdir $+ records\myfilename.ini,$mta.nick($1,$2),$replace($mta.race($1),$chr(32),-)),1,32) - $mta.time($1,$2))

work like I suppose it would? I'd like the mid-time number so that I can tell people how far away they were from the record. Last time I tried I did something completely different and it didn't work, I'm assuming the above would though?

u can use $time to show current time if thats what u mean

like: if ($3 == !time) mta.text $1 The Time is: $time

im not sure how ur time is stored in ur ini, im guessing its like 1min 45secs - but even if u store both time format and ticks format, i dont think theres a way of returning an exact split time unless u write an alias to do that.

u can of course return a time down to the exact second, but ur calc is wrong.

$mta.time($1,$2) will return the current ticks since the start of the race, and ur using the info in the ini which i think is stored in time format

it is possible to do what ur trying tho, but only down to the second using that format.

all u need to do is split ur stored time like u have done, but also split ur current time then work out the difference. which u could do in a seperate alias.

in my script i store all time in ticks format, so i can just calc 1 from the other, then i have my own alias that converts ticks into time down to 1/100th second. eg: u finsish a race with the time 1:30.555 and ur best ever might be 1:30.554 so it would show ur split time as +0:00:001

im not sure what info u store to ur ini, and talking like this on the forums could take u days/weeks to get it right

its all kinda hard to explain on a forum, so if u do wanna go ahead, just add my msn and i'll help u thru it or sort u out one way or another.

also, u said u have no access to any lists?

have u looked in mirc help files? also the SA-scripting.html file that came with mtama? they are the only lists we all use and u have access to both... im sure:)

[Dead-Inside]

I was just wondering if my calculation would work.

The values are correct (As in they're both the same raw format in ticks and no mins/secs or : . formatting).

For displaying I'm using an 00:00:000 setup, a la Mictech, which was the server I used to play on.

In any case, I'm assuming then that what I typed should work just fine?

[Scooby]

I was just wondering if my calculation would work.

The values are correct (As in they're both the same raw format in ticks and no mins/secs or : . formatting).

For displaying I'm using an 00:00:000 setup, a la Mictech, which was the server I used to play on.

In any case, I'm assuming then that what I typed should work just fine?

so the info u get from ur ini is in ticks?

if so then yes it would work. but u would need to convert it to a time format to display.

wouldnt it have been quicker to just try it?

[Dead-Inside]

Well it was what I was going to do next, which would be now and not then.

I'll probably have more questions later, but for now I should be alright. Thanks.

And, btw, I already have a time converter .

[Scooby]

ok good luck. also if u do have any more questions and need a quicker answer, im usually on the #mta.scripting channel on irc. (irc.multitheftauto.com)