Gaulish Gaming Banquet: editor

deathhound246

Since there's numerous files for each game, is there like a "utility" function to get the file contents (perhaps parsed already) depending on the selected game?

adrientd

You can get the content of the JSON files (Properties_Common.json etc.) from the Encyclopedia class

pfahli

Alternative suggestion

deathhound246

It keeps crashing when attempting to load the json file into the encyclodpedia

deathhound246

specifically on this assertion

adrientd

Maybe the file is missing.

deathhound246

i changed it back to properties common and it seems happier. now there's just the issue of if the class isn't in the json file

deathhound246

im pretty sure i had the file spelling correct though, and the file is there (perhaps it was left out of the compilation or something?)

adrientd

Yes, the file is obtained via GetResourceContent, which normally gets the file content through the resources inside the exe, if you added a new file that you might have to include it in the resource script (Resource.rc file)

adrientd

If you doesn't find the file in the resources, it will also look for the file in the "xec_resources" folder. If you run the editor from VS, that folder is in the project's folder.

deathhound246

for `g_encyclo.kclasses`, is the map keys just the class full id?

adrientd

yes, so ` | ( << 6)`

adrientd

or ` + ( * 64)` :Obelul:

deathhound246

I'm doing this already, but still seems to be coming back, either than it can't get the key, or that I'm probably not grabbing the name field correctly (latter is most likely :Obelul:

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deathhound246

It's not crashing though! Progress

deathhound246

I don't think this is right :FrogThinking:

deathhound246

(printf is bad i know, its just temporary for debuggin)

adrientd

I think you hit one of many C++ pitfalls. :Obelul:

The string you get from `classinfo.at("name").dump()` is a temporary, so it gets destroyed at the next line. Using c_str to get a pointer to the string data does not extend its lifetime.

adrientd

Do something like this: ```C++ std::string classname = classinfo.at("name").dump(); printf("Classname: %s\n", classname.c_str());```

deathhound246

i was using `.get()` (from github copilot) before dump, and it was seemingly doing the same thing :Obelul:

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