How to cycle through Staffcast types

Iye

I'm not good with Lua (basic stuff even doesn't work sometimes)

Just wondering the easiest way to use an alias or a keybinding to cycle through different options for a variable (in this cast stafftype...or something)

this is off the top of my head, but I would like to know if I'm close...or if there's anything else I can do:

if stafftype == dissolution then

stafftype=scintilla

cecho("<orangered> SCINTILLA / FIRE CAST")

else if stafftype == scintilla then

stafftype=lightning

cecho("<yellow> LIGHTNING / ELECTRIC CAST")

else if stafftype == lightning then

stafftype=horripilation then

cecho("<cyan> HORRIPILATION / ICE CAST")

else if stafftype == horripilation then

stafftype=dissolution

cecho("<greenyellow> DISSOLUTION / MAGIC CAST")

And my alias for staffcast would be something like:

send ("staffcast "..stafftype.." at "..target)

Any advice (or a code fix :P) would be incredible. Thanks!

Jacen

Need to put your lightning, dissolution, etc in quotes because they're strings

Antonius

I'd personally do something like this:

local staffcastTypes = {"dissolution", "scintilla", "lightning", "horripilation"}
local staffcastIndex = 1

function staffcast()
    send("staffcast " .. staffcastTypes[staffcastIndex] .. " at " .. target)
    staffIndex = (staffcastIndex == #staffcastTypes and 1) or (staffcastIndex + 1)
end

Then your alias just does:

staffcast()

Iocun

Just to make it even a tad more elegant, I'd replace

staffcastIndex = (staffcastIndex == #staffcastTypes and 1) or (staffcastIndex + 1)

with:

staffcastIndex = staffcastIndex % #staffcastTypes + 1

Give your pretty modulos a hug every day!

Antonius

@Iocun: I've gotten used to Lua not having nice things so didn't want to risk untested use of a modulo. Also changing variable names (staffIndex to staffcastIndex) after writing code is never a good idea...