Update on mario game #4.

Oh happiness - i finally solved it!

Wait.. solved what? Well, it all started with a simple "format" (format pawn strings) native to pawn. My friend sam told me that i could use the "strformat" in amxstring.c for use in pawn script. Tried that, but it wasn't so good, specially because it blocked all code from that line onwards. I tried doing another format native, which i putted in my "natives.h" header. Now, that failed. Everything keep crashing and i tried to solve it, but whent nowhere. I was trying to solve it for 2 days - combining sam's printf / the original format / code from googled search. And, suddently, it worked! I finally cracked the big question i had in my mind, why it didn't work, what do that line do, etc. And the happiness - i finally solved it. Now format works as it should. Without any help. Well, maybe a little from sam... But, i still feel so proud of myself. Not to brag, but i do.

Any poor humane searching their ass off for the code;


// native format(dest[], size=sizeof dest, const string[], ...);
static cell AMX_NATIVE_CALL n_format(AMX *amx,const cell *params)
{
cell *cstr = NULL;
AMX_FMTINFO info;
TCHAR output[MAX_FORMATSTR];
memset(&info,0,sizeof info);
info.params=params+4;
info.numparams=(int)(params[0]/sizeof(cell))-3;
info.skip=0;
info.length=MAX_FORMATSTR;
info.f_putchar = putchar;
info.f_putstr = putstr;
info.user = output;
output[0] = 0;

amx_GetAddr(amx, params[3], &cstr);
amx_printstring(amx,cstr,&info); //info contains "user" which points to output
//also format output(user) with cstr with params from info

amx_GetAddr(amx, params[1], &cstr); //the string in pawn to save to.
amx_SetString(cstr, (char*)output, 0, 0, (int)params[2]);
return 1;
}

MAX_FORMATSTR is 256.


In other news, i recently got chinatown wars to play with on the PSP. I must say it feels like GTA IV in the PSP. Other words, it rocks.

In and out,
Leopard