I remember seeing a thread like this on SA-MP forums so it'd be nice to share with each other little tricks to making our lives easier with pawn, I'll start:

Actually don't know what this is formally called, but you can use it to skip parts of code when needed (good in a situation where the ending part of code is always the same but you don't need to copy/paste that code in every if/switch statement)

I believe I've read somewhere that go-to statements (loops?) are actually slower. Not sure but I'll let others comment about that.

I'd rather use function than a go-to

I didn't post it to say "this is faster than blah blah", its there because others might not know about it and maybe could get a use out of it.

I prefer more a while loop, then the go-to way. Since you can also achieve this in a while loop.

I remember spending many hours manually getting all of these component prices.
https://gist.github.com/thecodeah/354a67c603bdd8eb6956aeadaa947591

Animations data:

• Library
  
• Name
  
• Index
  

I find that really useful to determine if player uses specific animation with GetPlayerAnimationIndex function (better than using string comparison for animation names).
Additionally useful for FCNPC_SetAnimation function from FCNPC (which requires animation index).

Data:
https://pastebin.com/raw/eqrJX5KD

(2019-04-14, 11:04 PM)DTV Wrote: I remember seeing a thread like this on SA-MP forums so it'd be nice to share with each other little tricks to making our lives easier with pawn, I'll start:

Actually don't know what this is formally called, but you can use it to skip parts of code when needed (good in a situation where the ending part of code is always the same but you don't need to copy/paste that code in every if/switch statement)

Code:

someFunc(params) {

    if(params) {

        SendClientMessage(playerid,-1,"Not skipped!");
        return 1;
    }

    else { goto skipBlock; } //this is how you'd call for the code to skip to `skipBlock`

    skipBlock: //this is how you'd create it

    SendClientMessage(playerid,-1,"Skipped!");
    return 1;
}

I'm not quite sure why this is trying to do. It would be exactly the same without the majority of this code:


The "return" ends the function early, so only code that passes your first check prints "Skipped".

a function i use to return the current time like: 2019-04-16 16:13:28

Something I wrote for TommyB for getting the world positions of vehicle components. Does not take X and Y rotations into account.

(2019-04-16, 11:23 AM)Y_Less Wrote:

(2019-04-14, 11:04 PM)DTV Wrote: I remember seeing a thread like this on SA-MP forums so it'd be nice to share with each other little tricks to making our lives easier with pawn, I'll start:

Actually don't know what this is formally called, but you can use it to skip parts of code when needed (good in a situation where the ending part of code is always the same but you don't need to copy/paste that code in every if/switch statement)

Code:

-snip-

I'm not quite sure why this is trying to do.  It would be exactly the same without the majority of this code:

Code:

-snip-

The "return" ends the function early, so only code that passes your first check prints "Skipped".

I couldn't come up with a better example off the top of my head without pulling out code that I can't show to everyone here.  The code I made wouldn't (hopefully) be a real life example of how you'd use but it was just to show "this is how you create it, this is how you use it, etc." rather than "this is a example of how you'd use it practically".

(2019-04-14, 11:04 PM)DTV Wrote: snip

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_code

Simple snippet that will make a M4 leave an explosion wherever its last shot lands:

Simple way to do basic chance based outcomes:

(2020-01-03, 06:33 PM)DTV Wrote: Simple way to do basic chance based outcomes:

PHP Code:

if(!random(2)) //50%
if(!random(4)) //25%
if(random(4)) //75%
if(!random(10)) //10%
if(random(10)) //90%
//etc 


These are pretty nice!

(2019-04-16, 11:23 AM)Y_Less Wrote:

(2019-04-14, 11:04 PM)DTV Wrote: I remember seeing a thread like this on SA-MP forums so it'd be nice to share with each other little tricks to making our lives easier with pawn, I'll start:

Actually don't know what this is formally called, but you can use it to skip parts of code when needed (good in a situation where the ending part of code is always the same but you don't need to copy/paste that code in every if/switch statement)

Code:

someFunc(params) {

    if(params) {

        SendClientMessage(playerid,-1,"Not skipped!");
        return 1;
    }

    else { goto skipBlock; } //this is how you'd call for the code to skip to `skipBlock`

    skipBlock: //this is how you'd create it

    SendClientMessage(playerid,-1,"Skipped!");
    return 1;
}

I'm not quite sure why this is trying to do.  It would be exactly the same without the majority of this code:

Code:

someFunc(params) {

    if(params) {

        SendClientMessage(playerid,-1,"Not skipped!");
        return 1;
    }

    SendClientMessage(playerid,-1,"Skipped!");
    return 1;
}

The "return" ends the function early, so only code that passes your first check prints "Skipped".

removed

As far as i can remember use of goto is considered to be a bad practise, because it can lead to "spaghetti" code.

One useful way to use it is to get out of nested loops.

Also it's naming convention is Ex: skip_loop_block. ? ( with _     after_each_word )


I'm not sure if that is correct, i never had a need to use it or learn how to use it so...

SetPlayerFacePlayer function. Function was not created by me. I think it was created by a mad german scientist whose name I can't remember.

IsValidRoleplayName without regex.


IsValidRoleplayName with regex (PawnPlus)



No Colors/Remove color format