[Question]NPC Dialogue from Ini

[Arcо]

Originally Posted by -Fáng-

Kinda like what I did with the SaveCharacter problem I guess.
Well I'll look into it more I guess as an option. Thanks =]

And my response to that?
FileShare.Read
Learn it.

[Ian*]

MySQL works fine to read it, actually any method really works just fine.

p4n's .npc files assuming it's just plain text he's parsing, so it's pretty much the equivalent to an ini file.

As long as you read it once and store it in a variable somewhere they're all the same.
Don't read it each time the npc is accessed :P

[_tao4229_]

Originally Posted by Ian*

MySQL works fine to read it, actually any method really works just fine.

p4n's .npc files assuming it's just plain text he's parsing, so it's pretty much the equivalent to an ini file.

As long as you read it once and store it in a variable somewhere they're all the same.
Don't read it each time the npc is accessed :P

Defeats an advantage of having an inline system (modify scripts while running).

You need some way to check whether the script has been modified before you reload it (or just have a command to manually reload the script into said variable).

[_DreadNought_]

Originally Posted by pro4never

My server is using full C# syntax stored as .npc files which are debugged and executed at runtime when requested (that way if there are errors it's not executed which would cause crashing/issues)

I'm using the .npc file idea I will have it like 12111.npc 12111 = npc id
the structure inside is just

case 0:
{
Text("Testing..");
Link("Hi", 255);
break;
}

Then I still need to write the hardest part which is read the npc dialog for now I will have npc dialog in database as follows:

case 12111:
{
switch(npcRequest.optionID)
{
File.FindAndRead(12111);
}
break;
}

then eventually ill change the whole system so all of it is in the .npc file.
so when clicking an npc it does

File.FindAndRead(npcrequest.ID);

=]
However I need abit of help in the FindAndRead void will post problems later.

btw .npc is just text file.
#edit
Need help!
So my void is as follows

public static void FindAndRead(uint NpcID, GameState client)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("NPC Being accessed: {0}", NpcID);
            string DialogPath = Constants.NpcDialogs + NpcID;
            if (File.Exists(DialogPath))
            {
                Dialogs dialog = new Dialogs();
                dialog.Client = client;
                dialog.Replies = new List<NpcReply>();

                File.Open(DialogPath, FileMode.Open);
                string[] Dialog = File.ReadAllLines(DialogPath);
                if (Dialog.Contains("case 0:"))
                {
                }
            }
        }

But have NO idea how to read a file like this:

switch(NpcRequest.OptionID)
{
case 0:
{
Text("Testing..");
Link("Hi", 255);
break;
}
}

I just need to read a line and take action

File.ReadLine("switch(Npcrequest.optionID))
{" { ((Npc.Add "switch(Npcrequest.optionID))"{)) 
int case;
if case = 0 { if File.Contains("case " + case") Npc.Add "case 0:");

something like that but have no idea. ;s

[Ian*]

Originally Posted by _tao4229_

Defeats an advantage of having an inline system (modify scripts while running).

You need some way to check whether the script has been modified before you reload it (or just have a command to manually reload the script into said variable).

Yeah, could just make a reload button on your server gui ;P