File Reader

File Reader

I need a JASS Trigger that will read an imported text document, starting with the first record, assign that record to a string, text message that string to all players, and then move on to the next record, I want this loop to continue until it has text messaged all of the records in the text document with a 5 second delay between each message

I then also need a trigger that does the same thing, but with fields

Is this possible and how would I do it ?

Import the txt file as war3map.wts, then do things like

TRIGSTR_101
{
"hello"
}

or something like that. The only problem with this is that it will overwrite all the strings attached to the objects you have with these strings >.>

why cant I just add a new mpq file to keep all of the strings in ?

this map has no other purpose than to read text to people, but I don’t want to have to write 5,000 text message triggers, I would rather just insert all of the text into a file for it to read

if youre not displaying ANYTHING else using custom strings, just look at the format of the war3map.wts file and write it out like that.

but that means I would have to put 70 pages of text into that format, it would be allot easier to get a trigger that reads it for me

Well, if you want to do anything, you'll have to do it that way or the standard way.

There is no "have to"

if a map's mpq files can get informatio from each other in WCIII, then then it shold be posibe to have a trigger that extracts text from an imported mpq file and puts it into a string varible

If the MPQ was read by JASS, of course.

Ah, do not forget: JASS is a script language.
Many things you can do with a real language like C++ are not possible with JASS.
FileReader is a class of Java... Using it with an InputStreamReader allows you to read text out of files... But this is not Java - and so maybe there is a "have to".

That is the charme of script languages - try to do something without having the right tools to do it.

There may be ways to do it:
First, try what happens if you simply rename your textfile without changing the format.
Does it work? Good. Does it do not? Well... That means hard work.
But hey - I do not know what you need a map for, which just displays seventy pages of text to the player, but if it is not just something stupid, I guess, it will be worth the work.
... Or it may not be important enough for that... But is it important anyway then?

so, JASS can not connect to an imported file and process it sequentially ?

and it does not matter to me what the name of the file is, I am willing to name my file anything that will work and sacrifice any other files in the process