Hi,

I'm having a problem with one struct affecting another one. I can't figure out why this is happening. This involves my character classes (whitemage, blackmage, paladin, fighter, etc) and my actual characters used to fill my party.

First I define my class struct:

struct classTypes
{
string className;
int isWhite; // 0 if can't use White Magic, 1 if can
int isBlack; // 0 if can't use Black Magic, 1 if can
}

Next I define my character struct:

struct userChar
{
string name;
int level; // Current Level
int exp; // Total Experience
int toNext; // Total EXP needed for next level
int maxHP; // Max HP
int maxMP; // Max MP
int hp; // Hit Points
int mp; // Magic Points
int atk; // Attack Power
int def; // Defense
int agi; // Agility
int wis; // Wisdom
int eva; // Evade
int RHand; // Weapon in Right Hand
int LHand; // Weapon in Left Hand
int Head; // Armor for Head
int Body; // Armor for Body
int Misc; // Miscellaneous slot
int esper; // Esper assigned, etc
int spells[100]; // Spell slots
string chrFile; // Actual chr filename
string BattleChrFile; // Actual chr filename for battle
string FacePicFile; // Filename for char's portrait
int row; // 1 for Front, 2 for Back
int dead; // 0 if alive, 1 if dead
int isRes; // 1 if Life3'd, 0 if not
int class; // Use above #defines
}

Now I actually define my classes:

#define FIGHTER 1 // no magic
#define WHITEMAGE 2 // only white magic
#define BLACKMAGE 3 // only black magic
#define MAGE 4 // both magics
#define PALADIN 5 // only white magic


void setupClasses()
{
classes[FIGHTER].className = 'Fighter';
classes[FIGHTER].isWhite = 0;
classes[FIGHTER].isBlack = 0;

classes[WHITEMAGE].className = 'White Mage';
classes[WHITEMAGE].isWhite = 1;
classes[WHITEMAGE].isBlack = 0;


classes[BLACKMAGE].className = 'Black Mage';
classes[BLACKMAGE].isWhite = 0;
classes[BLACKMAGE].isBlack = 1;


classes[MAGE].className = 'Wizard';
classes[MAGE].isWhite = 1;
classes[MAGE].isBlack = 1;


classes[PALADIN].className = 'Paladin';
classes[PALADIN].isWhite = 1;
classes[PALADIN].isBlack = 0;
}

And finally, I define my characters - I'm only including the one here that shows the problem:

#define EDRICK 0
#define CHAR2 1
#define CHAR3 2

void setupChars()
{
// Setup Edrick
TBox(0,fb_font,classes[PALADIN].className);
Chars[EDRICK].name = 'Edrick';
// classes[PALADIN].className = 'Paladin';
TBox(0,fb_font,classes[PALADIN].className);
Chars[EDRICK].level = 1;
Chars[EDRICK].exp = 0;
Chars[EDRICK].toNext = determineNext(0);
Chars[EDRICK].maxHP = 30;
Chars[EDRICK].maxMP = 0;
Chars[EDRICK].hp = 30;
Chars[EDRICK].mp = 0;
Chars[EDRICK].atk = 2;
Chars[EDRICK].def = 2;
Chars[EDRICK].agi = 3;
Chars[EDRICK].wis = 1;
Chars[EDRICK].eva = 1;
Chars[EDRICK].RHand = EMPTYHANDED;
Chars[EDRICK].LHand = EMPTYHANDED;
Chars[EDRICK].Head = EMPTYHANDED;
Chars[EDRICK].Body = EMPTYHANDED;
Chars[EDRICK].Misc = EMPTYHANDED;
Chars[EDRICK].Esper = 0;
Chars[EDRICK].isRes = 0;
Chars[EDRICK].class = PALADIN;

int ticker;
for (ticker=0;ticker<100;ticker++)
{
Chars[EDRICK].Spells[ticker] = 0;
}

Chars[EDRICK].chrFile = 'plCecil.chr';
Chars[EDRICK].BattleChrFile = 'plCecil_Fight.chr';
Chars[EDRICK].FacePicFile = 'plCecil_Portrait.png';
Chars[EDRICK].Row = 1;
Chars[EDRICK].Dead = 0;
}


Now here's the kicker - in the above, note these lines of code:

// Setup Edrick
TBox(0,fb_font,classes[PALADIN].className);
Chars[EDRICK].name = 'Edrick';
// classes[PALADIN].className = 'Paladin';
TBox(0,fb_font,classes[PALADIN].className);

TBox prints a textbox with the third parameter as text to the screen. When I run this, here's the two printouts I get back to back:

'Paladin'
'Edrick'

At this point in time, classes[PALADIN].className = 'Edrick'.

Now what's also disturbing is that if I uncomment the next line down and reset classes[PALADIN].className = 'Paladin' again, then at that moment in time, Chars[EDRICK].name = 'Paladin' as well. I can't keep the two separate - classes[PALADIN].className is insisting on being equal to Party[EDRICK].name and vice versa.

This is absolutely blowing my mind. Is there a massive bug in Verge that could explain this? Am I doing something wrong? WTF?

Thanks!

Gleznov

I don't know much about what causes a V3 struct error, but I've run into one once or twice before...

In my case, I simply started over. I mean, I didn't recode everything, but I opened a new VC project, and slowly reinserted all the code. Starting with the 'broken'/'suspicious' code first, so I can make sure whether or not it's Verge for messing up all the struct data, or me for forgetting something simple. Putting just the suspicious code in helps to simplify.

Then reinsert the other code. Strangely, one or two errors I find tend to simply disappear after such testing, and I never have the same problem again.

Try recreating the two classes with just the classname property and then running the string tests. Maybe you'll find out something interesting and useful.

V3 used to have some really fucky struct errors, but I thought they had been fixed. Hrm, looks like there were more problems lurking around! Weird.