Basic Marble Blast Coding Q&A

[Aayrl]

I felt silly posting replies onto member's coding tutorials. My alternative is to create a thread where users can post their coding questions, and hopefully get them answered. Please post here if you have any questions referring to the Marble Blast coding language and we'll see what feedback we can present to you.

~Aayrl

[Stal]

Ah! I have SOO many questions!
how do you create a line in the prefs.cs file? Like when you pick up an item? (in itemdata datablock)

[Aayrl]

I'm not sure what you're looking for, you've given me two seperate coding files to work with here (inventory.cs and prefs.cs). One operates the powerups and your current inventory status, whilst the other controls your times and settings.

Please clarify the question more for me

~Aayrl

[blazeryo]

Yeah I gotta question for you, why do you always put ~Aayrl after every post you make? it's a serious question

[Aayrl]

It's my signature before my forum signature..

..just a habit

~Aayrl

[Stal]

ok.
prefs in client
like adding a high score line.
pref::usedtimetravel[blah.mis]?=1;
abit like that

[Aayrl]

From my understanding, the prefs.cs file in the client folder is merely a saved data recall station. Your game saves your settings and scores here, and recalls them later as written in various other coding. MainMenuGUI for example recalls data from this file to display your best times.

Per se, there is no way to 'add' lines into here manually, it's all done automatically by the marbleblast.exe program.

~Aayrl

[Stal]

no, like make a new kind of high-score

[Aayrl]

Such...as...a new level genre...like Expert levels?

Again, this is attained not through the prefs.cs file, but another technique. If you create and title a new subfolder under your levels folder, name it, and give the playmenugui a place to access it (Another button), the game then calls upon level data stored into that folder, and saves it into the prefs.cs as a different level genre.

If you're talking more along the lines of a new 'time' for high scores, such as Platinum and Ultra, this is also done in several other bits and pieces of coding inside each level file and the game.cs. Again, the game calls upon the data stored here, and uses the prefs.cs as a place of memory/storage.

~Aayrl

[MarbleDuck]

That *twitch* ~Aayrl thing is *twitch* going to be the *twitch* death of you...

[Stal]

ok thx

[Hi Guy]

How do I change the prefs.cs file name, like how MBF and MBP both have their own prefs.cs, how would I get it to make my own?

~HiGuy
EAT IT!

[Perishingflames]

marble/main.cs, change all (3?) instances of prefs.cs to ___prefs.cs

and may want to do that for common/main.cs as well.

[Hi Guy]

Thank you PF! It worked!

[IsraeliRD]

Loc--wait, what?

[Stal]

I meant like how in MBP they have an easter egg high score line in the MBPprefs.cs.

[Hi Guy]

BUMP! How would you get the current value of a GuiTextEditCtrl (after the user has entered text)?

(Figured the bump was o.k. since it's a Q&A thread...)

HiGuy

[Seizure22 (Witty Title)]

I think it's this:

(object name).getValue();

[Marblemaster1 (Frosty)]

I have a question:

Where is the code that controls the powerup functions?

[IsraeliRD]

Powerups.cs, but the engine contains superjump, superspeed, superbounce and shockabsorber values and those we cannot decrypt, so no one knows how to modify these.

[Hi Guy]

How do you get the selected level number?
Also, which file would PM_MissionList be in?

[Seizure22 (Witty Title)]

PM_MissionList.getSelectedId();
PlayMissionGui

[Hi Guy]

Thanks seizure!
One more: Edit: Figured out the Yes/No. Edit 2: Got the mission type. How can I compare it to a string e.g.

if ($MissionType == "Advanced") {
...
}

so that it will only return "Yes" for what it's equal to?

[ShadowMarble]

if ($MissionType $= "Advanced") {
...
}

$= will compare strings. You can use !$= to test if two strings are NOT equal.

[Hi Guy]

OMG Thank you!

[Hi Guy]

How would I run a string as a script?

I've tried
"ececute("blah");"
"run("blah");"
"runCommand("blah);"
(replace "blah" with a real command)

HiGuy

[Seizure22 (Witty Title)]

eval("blah();");

Syntax is tricky, post again if you're having trouble.

[Hi Guy]

Thanks seizure22!

[Stal]

How do I get the main.cs (server) to exec new .cs files? Or do I need some special formatting in the new files? >_< (exec(etc.cs); isn't working)

[Seizure22 (Witty Title)]

for root folder files

exec("./etc.cs");

for other folder files

exec("marble/server/scripts/blah.cs");