ZScript and its impact on SBARINFO

[Major Cooke]

Graf, would it be possible to introduce scaling? Having to readjust the sizes via textures can become quite a drag... Not to mention TEXTURES has a limit of *4 and /4.

And perhaps the ability to read doubles/floats too?

[Blzut3]

virtually unmaintainable state

I'm not sure if unmaintainable is the correct word here since it's at least not fragile, well at least to me it isn't. There is definitely a lot that could have been done better if it was designed from the start to be a real solution instead of a collection of adhoc addons which eventually grew powerful enough to replace most of the internal status bars.

One thing I am happy about in regards to SBarInfo is that it never grew into a turing complete language. I know a lot of mod authors would disagree about this, but I felt this was important since it meant among other things that it would have been fairly reasonable to make a GUI editor although one never happened (and I can think of several reasons why). I also think it would have theoretically allowed for a vanilla dirty rects system to exist automatically, but by the time I rewrote the internals to even have a chance of doing that there were already problems in the language making that non trivial.

Indeed -- I'd be quite content to start with DrawTexture+DrawText and build the rest up from there. A good library of useful shortcuts can follow afterward.

Hey that's how SBarInfo started to grow. Jokes aside, this really does seem like the best way to go.

[Graf Zahl]

virtually unmaintainable state

I'm not sure if unmaintainable is the correct word here since it's at least not fragile, well at least to me it isn't. There is definitely a lot that could have been done better if it was designed from the start to be a real solution instead of a collection of adhoc addons which eventually grew powerful enough to replace most of the internal status bars.

I didn't say 'fragile', I said 'unmaintainable'. The old menu was in a similar state where the code at some point just got too convoluted to comfortably work with it - but was still doing its job.
I am still trying to make sense out of large parts of SBARINFO, it is quite hard to follow. No surprise that it's easier for you, but I just can't get into it all and still need to decide how to start a working framework for ZScript based status bars. I am hoping to at least salvaging the two Draw functions because they seem better suited than what's in DBaseStatusBar. That code looks way too limited to me.

[Graf Zahl]

I just want to announce that this just got pushed back because a far more seroous issue has surfaced:

http://forum.drdteam.org/viewtopic.php? ... 838#p63838

I knew it was necessary to fix the type system but if such a simple thing can bring it down it needs to be done immediately.

[SanyaWaffles]

Graf, would it be possible to introduce scaling?

This is something I second.

Take care of the far more serious issue at first.

[Graf Zahl]

Actually, scaling is the main reason why this hasn't gone forward yet. I still need to figure out how the various modes in SBARINFO work so that I can do something that can do the same thing but with less limitations.

[Major Cooke]

I somehow felt that would be the big show pauser. Resolutions need to be handled first and foremost, it would appear.

[Major Cooke]

So I opened up D4D's sbarinfo for like the third time ever and was looking around for a few variables...

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// Counter
      // Crosshair is at 510,380
      InInventory Counter,52 { drawimage "cnt52",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,51 { drawimage "cnt51",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,50 { drawimage "cnt50",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,49 { drawimage "cnt49",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,48 { drawimage "cnt48",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,47 { drawimage "cnt47",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,46 { drawimage "cnt46",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,45 { drawimage "cnt45",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,44 { drawimage "cnt44",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,43 { drawimage "cnt43",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,42 { drawimage "cnt42",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,41 { drawimage "cnt41",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,40 { drawimage "cnt40",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,39 { drawimage "cnt39",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,38 { drawimage "cnt38",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,37 { drawimage "cnt37",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,36 { drawimage "cnt36",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,35 { drawimage "cnt35",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,34 { drawimage "cnt34",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,33 { drawimage "cnt33",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,32 { drawimage "cnt32",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,31 { drawimage "cnt31",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,30 { drawimage "cnt30",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,29 { drawimage "cnt29",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,28 { drawimage "cnt28",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,27 { drawimage "cnt27",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,26 { drawimage "cnt26",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,25 { drawimage "cnt25",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,24 { drawimage "cnt24",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,23 { drawimage "cnt23",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,22 { drawimage "cnt22",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,21 { drawimage "cnt21",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,20 { drawimage "cnt20",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,19 { drawimage "cnt19",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,18 { drawimage "cnt18",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,17 { drawimage "cnt17",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,16 { drawimage "cnt16",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,15 { drawimage "cnt15",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,14 { drawimage "cnt14",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,13 { drawimage "cnt13",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,12 { drawimage "cnt12",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,11 { drawimage "cnt11",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter,10 { drawimage "cnt10",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter, 9 { drawimage "cnt09",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter, 8 { drawimage "cnt08",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter, 7 { drawimage "cnt07",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter, 6 { drawimage "cnt06",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter, 5 { drawimage "cnt05",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter, 4 { drawimage "cnt04",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter, 3 { drawimage "cnt03",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter, 2 { drawimage "cnt02",  465,337; } else {
      InInventory Counter, 1 { drawimage "cnt01",  465,337; } else {
                         drawimage "cnt00",  465,337;
      }}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} // 52 braces

...52 braces. This is ridiculous. I will be glad when zscript has zbarinfo of it's own, if we're calling it that.

[ibm5155]

Just wondering, can I do this kind of animated hud with zscript?
https://youtu.be/kdvvYWudDXo?t=42m32s

[Graf Zahl]

You can't do any kind of HUD with ZScript right now. Once the functionality is in place you can program anything you like and draw it.

[Major Cooke]

Another question, will it be possible to also do alpha transparency much like ACS's hud message?

[Blue Shadow]

Running before we learn to walk, are we?

[NeuralStunner]

Running before we learn to walk, are we?

Hey MC, that's motto material there.

[Major Cooke]

I meant via sbarinfo itself. Not through the graphics.

[Major Cooke]

Anyway, according to ZZYZX, This means once in, the road to doing the sbarinfo will be much more straight forward. I'll let him comment on that, though.