Widget that show how many units left to MAX-Unit...

[R-TEAM]

Hi,

if i play in LAN with my little bit old second-PC i set the max units
variable low enough to deal with the cpu power he have ...

But found it is a bit frustrating if you build a large army and then -
nothing more - stop - no go .... have reached the max ...

It would be nice show a widget the units left (or the actual number)
to planing this better ...

Like ->
I have set max 500 Units - if i have 450 the widget show a message:
"Only 50 units left !" ...
By a max of 1000 units the border should hit at 100 left...
(if the number bigger - the number of fabrics that build units is bigger too imho - so the amount of planed/in production units is higher)

Regards
R-TEAM

[hoijui]

Ctrl-A

[manolo_]

nice widget hoijui^^

[Pendrokar]

Ctrl-A

What if you forgot how many there could still be?

[MelTraX]

Alt-Tab

[KDR_11k]

ctrl-shift-escape

[MelTraX]

OK, I feel bad for giving you a stupid answer:

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function widget:GetInfo()
  return {
    name    = "Max Units Warning",
    desc    = "Outputs a warning in the console if you use 90% of the max units.",
    author  = "MelTraX",
    date    = "2009-09-16",
    license = "Public Domain",
    layer   = 1,
    enabled = false
  }
end

function widget:UnitCreated()
  local max = Spring.GetModOptions()['maxunits'] or 500
  local current = #Spring.GetTeamUnits(Spring.GetMyTeamID())
  if max * 0.9 == current then
    Spring.Echo(string.format('You have %d units. The maximum unit count is set to %d.', current, max))
  end
end

Yes, it's not pretty but it's better than nothing.

[R-TEAM]

Hi,

Thanks MelTraX

And Thanks hoijui, but if you have a slow cpu and many,many Units and hit ctrl-alt .........


Regards
R-TEAM

[lurker]

doesn't tell you max units?

[hoijui]

i have s slow CPU too.. but as i dont check num-units every few secs, it is ok.
The problem with Ctrl-Alt is rather, that you have to be very carefull to not accidentialy issue an order :D
happend to me once; big @#%@$%@#$ moment!