Check all vars?

ID:168491
 
Oct 8 2005, 11:25 am
Hmm, not really sure how to make a command to check all your vars that are active without having to make multiple lines. Any Ideas?
Oct 8 2005, 11:27 am
What do you mean by "checking all your vars that are active"? Can you please explain it a little better?

~~>Dragon Lord
Oct 8 2005, 10:12 pm
 
#define islist(L) (if(istype(/list,L)))

mob/verb/CheckVars()
    var/t="<font size=+2>[src]:</font>"
    for(var/a in vars)
        if(islist(a))
            t += "List: [a] = <br>"
            for(var/b in vars[a]) t += "    [b]<br>"
        else
            src << "[a] = [vars[a]]<br>"


I think that should work. References to atoms won't work out too well, but beyond that it is workable. The islist() define may be wrong, too. I can never get the order of arguments in istype() right...
Oct 8 2005, 10:45 pm
In response to Jp
Swap the /list with L for the define.
Oct 8 2005, 10:46 pm
In response to Jp
Won't work. Your macro will expand to have two if()s, and the arguments to istype() are the wrong way around. =)

Corrected version:

> #define islist(L) (istype(L,/list))
> 
> mob/verb/CheckVars()
>     var/t="<font size=+2>[src]:</font>"
>     for(var/a in vars)
>         if(islist(a))
>             t += "List: [a] = <br>"
>             for(var/b in vars[a]) t += "    [b]<br>"
>         else
>             src << "[a] = [vars[a]]<br>"
>


You can get a lot more complex with this kind of thing; supporting atoms, nested lists, and all kinds of things. There are libraries that do all the work for you already; http://developer.byond.com/hub/Gazoot/var_dump, for example. (I've never used it - I have my own personal unreleased library that includes these kind of things - but Gazoot's looks pretty good.) Deadron also has one (http://developer.byond.com/hub/Deadron/Debug).