ACS Get level name and level lump name

[Nash]

Just ran into a situation where I need this. An ACS function that returns the level name, and the level lump name, as a string.

Currently hacking my way through this by assigning LevelNums to the levels in MAPINFO and just checking against that, but that won't work in the long run!

[KeksDose]

strParam appears to be able to do what you are requesting, doesn't it?

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str nicename = strParam(n:PRINTNAME_LEVELNAME);
str lumpname = strParam(n:PRINTNAME_LEVEL);

This only goes for the active map, though. I'm guessing your request goes for any level number?

[Nash]

Ah, didn't know that was already readable but... I can't get it to work!

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script "Script_StartGameInstance" Open
{
    str lumpname = StrParam(n: PRINTNAME_LEVEL);
    while (!GameInstanceCount)
    {
        if (lumpname != "TITLEMAP") // this condition is never met
        {
            ACS_NamedExecute("Script_WorldSetup", 0);
            Delay(1); // wait 1 more tic to let the initialization complete
            GameInstanceCount = 1;
        }
        Delay(1);
    }
}
 

EDIT: Nevermind, got it to work! Had to use a handy string compare function from ACSNet and change the condition to this:

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if (!StringCompare(lumpname, StrParam(s: "TITLEMAP")))
 

[Gez]

The whole "strings are really integer indices to a string array" thing strikes again! I don't think any mathematical comparison of a StrParam with a constant would ever work as intended.

[Nash]

Yeah! Honestly it still confuses me to this day, I don't think I can fully wrap my head around it.

[ibm5155]

the way zdoom string Works is really weird, a char atribute would be really welcome.
but from what I understand, is like each string is stored into a single global matrix pointer, so the given number will be just the position of the script on that vector

like
strings[0] = "YES";
strings[1] = "NO;
strings[2[] = "E1M1".

if I remember if you do something like x = string[0]+string[1], x would have the result "YESNO" and it would add a new pointer with the name "YESNO"

[Xaser]

The issue is the opposite: Without use of StrParam, trying to do strings[0]+strings[1] in the example above would yield "E1M1", not "YESNO", because internally you're adding two integers together.

[ibm5155]

weird, I remember that doing that in skulltag would result in a yesno string, but if you subtract it, it would Always be " "
but, this is not skulltag