Class: avatar


API

The class only has one method parser(file), where file is
the name of the attribute file without the .avt extension.  

Misc.

The power of Unicon (the programming language used to develop the
avarcron) is shone in this class and throughout other classes in
the area of text processing.  Notice the bolded texts down below, 
where an expression sentence[i+1:*sentence+1] thrives. In
Unicron, string can be manupilated in many ways, and this is one
of them.  One can extract a part of string (i.e. substring) with
two indices.  Thus, considering a string word:="school", a substring
"choo"can be extracted by saying word[2:5].

Source Code

class avatar(
             # Avatar information
   name,     #   Name
   sex,      #   Gender
   hdchoice, #   Head Shape (1 for square;2 for egghead)
   face,     #   Name of the face picture file
   xsize,ysize,zsize, # X,Y,Z scalor factors
   height,   #   Y-axis Scalar factor (i.e. = ysize)
   color,    #   Primary color (Skin color)
   scolor,   #   Shirt color
   pcolor,   #   Pants color
   shcolor   #   Shoes color
)
   #
   # parser(File)
   # Purpose: Takes a file and parse each line and set them to their 
   #          appropriate variables 
   #
   method parser(file)
     local line, count
     count:=0
     line:= open(file||".avt") | stop("Can't open ", file||".avt")
     while sentence:=read(line) do {
        sentence:=trim(sentence,'\t')
        sentence:=trim(sentence,' ')
        if sentence[1]~=="#" then {
           i:=1
           while i < *sentence do {
             if sentence[i] == "=" then {
                break }
             i:=i+1
           } 
           
           if count == 0 then {
              name:=sentence[i+1:*sentence+1] }
           else if count == 1 then {
              sex:=sentence[i+1:*sentence+1] }
           else if count == 2 then {
              height:=sentence[i+1:*sentence+1] }
           else if count == 3 then {
              xsize:=sentence[i+1:*sentence+1] }
           else if count == 4 then {
              ysize:=sentence[i+1:*sentence+1] }
           else if count == 5 then {
              zsize:=sentence[i+1:*sentence+1] }
           else if count == 6 then {
              color:=sentence[i+1:*sentence+1] }
           else if count == 7 then {
              scolor:=sentence[i+1:*sentence+1] }
           else if count == 8 then {
              pcolor:=sentence[i+1:*sentence+1] }
           else if count == 9 then {
              shcolor:=sentence[i+1:*sentence+1] }
           else if count == 10 then {
              hdchoice:=sentence[i+1:*sentence+1] } 
           else if count == 11 then {
              face:=sentence[i+1:*sentence+1] }           
           count:=count+1
        }
     }
   end
initially() 
    i:=0
    name:="guest"
    xsize:=0
    ysize:=0
    zsize:=0
    height:=170
    origx := 0
    origy := 0
    origz := 0
    sex := "m"
    face := "smily.gif"
    hdchoice := 1
end