[SOLVED]Need help with events in RGSS =/

[Ares]

I wanted to make a script that goes through all events in all maps, and checks if it's name is equal to a specific string.
And if it ís equal, store the x, y and map of that event in an Array in a Hash.
Something like this (I guess):
[rgss]module Database
begin
for i in 0..ALL_EVENTS
 if i.name == "String"
  @hash = [x, y, map]
 end
end
@hash.compact
end
 
def Database.events
 return @hash
end 
end
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But I didn't find a way to iterate through all events on all maps...

Note: I am aware of the fact that, if you want to check 200 events on 999 maps it will take a long time and cause great lag, but that is not a problem at this point.
I don't know whether this is even possible. Please help me out here!

Thanks in advance

 

[Racheal]

To go through every event in every map, you'd want something along these lines:

  MATCH = "String"

  def setup

    @data = []

    for map_id in 0...999

      filename = sprintf("Data/Map%03d.rxdata", @map_id)

      if FileTest.exist?(filename)

        map = load_data(filename)

        for i in map.events.keys

          if @map.events[i].name == MATCH

            @data.push([map_id, @map.events[i].x, @map.events[i].y])

          end

        end

      end

    end

  end

Obviously I wasn't sure what you wanted to use as a key for the hash, so I just pushed it all into an array. And as far as I could tell, there's no easy way to get a list of all the maps in the game, so I just had to check maps 001 thru 999 and see if they exist.

Didn't really test it outside of making sure it compiles (once I put it in a class), but should work in theory.

 

[Brewmeister]

Rach, you could probably do a .size on the array in MapInfos.rxdata, or loop through the array indexing all the non-nil objects.
(probably more work than it's worth...)

I'm guessing this is a development tool, not part of a working game. ??
although I can imagine how it could be used to cast some sort of 'akasha' spell, or to display a bunch of 'somethings' on a world map...

It occurred to me to quit looping after FileTest returns false, but then it would quit if he had deleted a map...

Be Well

 

[Ares]

Yeah it's more of an development tool...
But it works fine now, so thanks!