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Editing overlay text of miniwindow gauges
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| Posted by
| Xinefus
(106 posts) Bio
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| Tue 10 Nov 2020 09:30 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| Hey folks,
I have been working with Fiendish's health_bars_gmcp plugin and modified it for my own mud. I'm coding/working on that rare breed dragonball mud (based on smaug) and they have some pretty large numbers in some of their attributes.
The problem I am trying to get around is that when I show the overlay numbers it many times just runs off into the next or previous gauge unless I make the whole set of gauges wider. Not an ideal solution.
I was wondering if there is a way for me to 'truncate' the numbers from lets say 10000 to 10K or 10.0K? I assume I could use something like string.format but I'm not sure how this would work in the case of this plugin while using DoNextSimpleBar().
Any bit of help in this would be appreciated.
Thanks! | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Xinefus
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| Date
| Reply #1 on Tue 10 Nov 2020 09:40 PM (UTC) |
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| | I just realised I put this in the wrong sub-forum. It probably should be in the miniwindows sub-forum. Sorry guys. :( | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Xinefus
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| Reply #2 on Wed 11 Nov 2020 01:20 AM (UTC) |
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| Well, I was a bit premature in asking this question!
I was able to figure it out quite easily once I actually started to read more about DoNextSimpleBar()
I added thisfunction shorten(val)
if val >= 10^18 then
return string.format("%.2fQt", val / 1000000000000000000 )
elseif val >= 10^15 then
return string.format("%.2fQu", val / 1000000000000000 )
elseif val >= 10^12 then
return string.format("%.2fT", val / 1000000000000 )
elseif val >= 10^9 then
return string.format("%.2fB", val / 1000000000 )
elseif val >= 10^6 then
return string.format("%.2fM", val / 1000000 )
elseif val >= 10^3 then
return string.format("%.2fK", val / 1000 )
else
return tostring(val)
end
end
I then just changed the line in DoNextSimpleBar() to this: txt = string.lpad(shorten(num_val), maxlen, ' ').."/"..string.rpad(shorten(num_maxval),maxlen,' ')
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| Posted by
| Fiendish
USA (2,533 posts) Bio
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| Reply #3 on Wed 11 Nov 2020 03:07 AM (UTC) |
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| | You could also just string.format the number into scientific notation with %e without looking at it. |
https://github.com/fiendish/aardwolfclientpackage | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,070 posts) Bio
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| Reply #4 on Wed 11 Nov 2020 06:58 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| Lua probably pre-calculates constants, but you could change:
to
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- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Xinefus
(106 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #5 on Wed 11 Nov 2020 06:06 PM (UTC) |
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| Thank you!
It's working so far the way I intend it.
Have a great week. | | Top |
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