Zugg Software :: View topic - case or if statements to organize attacks?

Wanderer Joined: 03 Aug 2004 Posts: 79

I have a skill that will allow me to view my opponents defences in order to find a weakness.
However, it is very hard to keep up with it in the heat of battle.
What I want to do is the following:
check defences: You look carefully at Someone.
I have about 8 attacks that I need to do quickly if my opponent has been so foolish as to not have the proper protection up when comming to face me.
The attacks have a priority though. #1 attack is better than #8 attack.
These are the attacks, and the things I need to look for to make my efforts successful.
#1 attack: freezing
You are surrounded by a protective pentacle. (defence)
You have limited immunity to cold attack. (defence)
You have limited immunity to fire attack. (makes you vulnerable if you have no cold resistance)
#2 attack: hypnotize
You are surrounded by a protective pentacle. (defence)
You are ignoring by reflex hostile runes and bedazzling. (defence)
#3 attack: sleep
You are surrounded by a protective pentacle. (defence)
You have enhanced the power of your adrenalin. (defence)
#4 attack: cursing
You are deaf and are immune to Songs and the Voice. (defence)
#5 attack: poisoining (general)
You are surrounded by an aura of divine light. (defence)
#6 attack: poisoning (fatal)
You are surrounded by a protective pentacle. (defence)
You are immune to most fatal poisons. (defence)
#7 attack: throwing daggers
You are surrounded by a protective pentacle. (defence)
You are dodgning incomming projectiles. (defence)
#8 attack: sword
You are surrounded by a protective pentacle. (defence)
Weapon attacks will be turned back upon the offender. (defence)
What I want to do is play a specific sound for the available attacks.
If there happens to be more that one available it could get very confusing. So I would like for the client to determine the top most priority attack and play its sound only, the others should remain silent. Im thinking a case statement may be the way but, Im open to suggestions if someone thinks there may be a simpler way to manage this.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5187

I would likely set this up with a list and a record variable. Roughly the trigger that starts receipt of the person's defenses would establish the list. I believe that would be "You look carefully at Someone." in your case. The list would be set to contain all the attack names in order of priority "freezing|hypnotize|sleep|cursing|poisoning general|poisoning fatal|throwing daggers|sword".

Next establish a record variable with all the different defense lines as keys and which attacks they defend against as values. For example:
#ADDKEY DefRec {You are surrounded by a protective pentacle.} {freezing|hypnotize|sleep|poisoning fatal|throwing daggers|sword}

Then by triggering directly off your record variable and removing from the list all those that are defended you have a short value to work with to select a sound:
#TR {({@DefRec})} {#FORALL {%db(@DefRec,"%1")} {#DELITEM ListVar {%i}}}

Finally whatever triggers the end of the person's defenses report would check the list using %item(@ListVar,1) and play the right sound or simply take the appropiate action. Since this could forseeably eliminate all your attacks I would suggest you build in a default action by checking %numitems(@ListVar) for 0.