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Problem storing Tagz in a variable

I'm having a problem putting "%_time_elapsed_seconds%,%_time_total_seconds%" into a variable and using them later on.  Maybe a bug, normal behavior, or me.

Here's my sad story

I wanted to display a progress bar in the status bar using variables

This version works:

//Store Progress Bar
$progress(%_time_elapsed_seconds%,%_time_total_seconds%,20,|,'—')

So, I wanted to store %_time_elapsed_seconds% and %_time_total_seconds% in a variable

I did this:

//Store Time in Seconds
$puts(time_secs,%_time_elapsed_seconds%[,%_time_total_seconds%])


Using the $Get below, the times stored above display correctly

//Display Time
$get(time_secs)

Then I put the progress bar into a variable (without the time_secs variable) and tried to display that

// Store progress bar
$puts(progress_bar, $progress(%_time_elapsed_seconds%,%_time_total_seconds%,20,|,'—'))

//Display progress bar
$get(progress_bar)

and that worked just fine

Finally I put the variable into the progress_bar variable

//Store Progress Bar
$puts(progress_bar,$progress($get(time_secs),20,|,'—'))

And tried to display the entire thing

//Display Progress Bar
$get(progress_bar)

But it won't display.  It just returns a null.

Can anyone else repeat this or did I screw up somewhere?
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Problem storing Tagz in a variable

Reply #1 –
I think the problem is the same thing that prevents someone from creating a true function with $puts/$get.

The issue is that strings which are put into variables are only evaluated once, at creation time.

So when you put the $progress() function into a variable, it is only storing the string outputted by $progress, not the actually code itself.  Thus, every time you call the variable with $get, you get that exact same string that $progress evaluated when your PROGRESS_BAR variable was created.  This means that even though the time elapsed tags are changing, only the very first value is being used each time you call $get.

I'm not 100% sure of this because I don't know how the status bar tagz display is setup internally, but I'm fairly certain this is the cause.

Edit:  Just reread your post and what I said must not be the case actually since you were able to get

Code: [Select]
$puts(progress_bar, $progress(%_time_elapsed_seconds%,%_time_total_seconds%,20,|,'—'))


... to work.

It seems maybe the problem is that with:

Code: [Select]
$puts(progress_bar,$progress($get(time_secs),20,|,'—'))


... you are only passing 4 parameters to $progress when is expecting 5.  I don't think that your comma seperating in creating the time_secs variable is actually being evaluated as two parameters.  Try breakign it up into two seperate variables and it should work.

Problem storing Tagz in a variable

Reply #2 –
I think you may be right about the number of parameters it's seeing.  But....

If you do:

Quote
//Store Time in Seconds
$puts(time_secs,%_time_elapsed_seconds%[,%_time_total_seconds%])

//Display Time
$get(time_secs)

It'll display as 'nnn,nnn' i.e. the comma is there.


Anyway, doing it this way does work
Quote
$puts(tes, %_time_elapsed_seconds%)

$puts(tts, %_time_total_seconds%)

$puts(progress_bar,$progress($get(tes),$get(tts),20,<$get(color_red)$get(time_percent)'%'$get(color_black)>,'—'))


Unfortunately, you're not really buying anything this way
Master of Fate. By Fate Mastered