[Cache] Any Particular Reason?

[naturesfury]

is there any particular reason JJCP And Fai's CP uses gamecaches instead of variables?
from what i understand, caches work like variables except they can carry stuff outside of the single game instance to load things from another map.......

but keybindings don't need to be carried over.........do they? o.o

[owner123]

I think the gamecache is to identify the cheatpack/version.
I'm not 100% sure though.

[naturesfury]

O.O?
it can do that?
weird.......didnt notice anything about that....
all it did was store/get strings from the cache
(on both Fai's and JJCP)
for fai i guess the name of the cache (blahblah.w3v) could be the version....but JJCP just has keybindings.w3v
and well, the keybindings dont even carry over (if u -binddown -gold 500 one game, u cant use the bind hotkey for another) ><
sooooooooo i rly dont see a point.......
-confused-

[X3n0nX]

I'm not so sure about this but, here's what I got.

The gamecache you see in the very first line is called "CACHE",

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gamecache CACHE=InitGameCache("KeyBindings.w3v")

If you knew simple JASS, you should know what this global variable do. First of all, it creates a variable called "CACHE" and a gamecache which is "KeyBindings.w3v".
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I just skimmed the CP and not so entirely sure about this but, it seems that the CACHE is used for the key bindings to work. When you set a command into a key, it saves the command in the CACHE, which is a string. And just calls the stored string in the CACHE when you press "that" key.

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call Cheatz(GetTriggerPlayer(),GetStoredString(CACHE,I2S(GetPlayerId(GetTriggerPlayer())),"up"))

When you press the "up" arrow key, it gets the stored string in CACHE which is the command.
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Please note that I'm not sure about what I had mentioned above, I just skimmed the CP. I would read the whole CP but, I just won't for the meantime, I lack time. , I'll check FAI for you, if there's a chance.

EDIT: And yes, you can use gamecaches from other maps when the maps are using the same gamecache, but I think JJ didn't made it that way, It could cause bugs.

[naturesfury]

LOL ummmmmmmm yea.......i alrdy knew that >.>
im saying.........that a variable would work the same (an integer/string array)
and JJ doesnt use gamecache to tranfer data from map to map
so....why does he use a cache instead of a variable
if only JJ did that, i woulda dismissed it as his random choice of doing things
but FAI did that too, so i was wondering if theres a particular reason a cache is used for keybindings instead of a variable

[X3n0nX]

If you would use a variable, then, you will need a variable for each of the arrow key. You don't want to overwrite the binded command on the right arrow key when you bind another key to the up arrow key. That would mean you can only bind one command at a time, but if you use 4 variables. It would work, but using gamecaches are much more efficient. You only need one gamecache, it saves memory. And much easier to use than using 4 variables. Besides variables, you can also use hashtables, which works similar to a variable. Instead, hashtables can save hashes, which variables can't. Also hashtables can save decimals, which variables can't. Hashtables can also save what variables can save, they just can do more than variables and are much more efficient than variables.

Also, I never replaced the hashtable to a variable, hashtables works. And I'll be sticking to that,

[UndeadxAssassin]

http://forum.wc3edit.net/fulfilled-requ ... ml#p121114

Another use of gamecache.

[naturesfury]

erm.......u do no that arrays exist o.o
and....real saves decimals....

and @undead
ill pm what i was gonna post cause u might still not want the act revealed

[X3n0nX]

You do know that arrays actually is another variable. So 4 arrays = 4 variables. What do you prefer? Using 1 gamecache for all the key bind functions, or creating 4 variables for each of the key bind functions. Gamecache is more accurate, more efficient, and easier to use.

@Undead, yes, it works the same thing, you store the string in the gamecache.

[naturesfury]

huh????
u only need one array........?
u no...that varname[number 0-8982]