world.icon_width and world.icon_height in Feature Requests

ID:320340
 
Feb 20 2012, 3:00 pm
Applies to:DM Language
Status: Open
Issue hasn't been assigned a status value.
Create variables to store the separate components of the world's icon size. For example:

world
    icon_size = "18x24"

mob
    Login()
        src << world.icon_width // outputs 18
        src << world.icon_height // outputs 24

You could also create similar vars for world.view and client.view.
#1 Feb 20 2012, 5:03 pm
I'd like to see this as well. This would really help me in some of my developments so I don't have to manually take apart the world.icon_size variable at the "x".
#2 Feb 20 2012, 5:32 pm
I think they didn't do this initially because it is more likely that people will be using square sizes (also goes for the view-type procs).
I also find it strange that they use bound_width and bound_height but didn't document the "bounds" variable.

It's still pretty easy to convert the text string to the two numbers with code, as you know, but more consistency in the syntax wouldn't hurt.

Of course, these _x/y variables would all be better off declared as vectors...
#3 Feb 23 2012, 7:35 am
This doesn't seem like that big of an issue. world.icon_size is only set a single time for the entire game. You could easily create and/or determine those 2 variables yourself.

I see something like this being more necessary with variables like screen_loc, since it supports awkwardly inconsistent formatting.