Using zones recorder in Reference Points Manager?

[vonotha]

Do you plan to allow refering Zones defined in Reference Points Manager in the other interface elements that use Reference Point? And what about referencing these zones in the scripts?

The new Reference Points Manager is an interesting organization tool, with a great potential.

Simple issue example - cannot use a zone in a trigger:

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[vonotha]

At least, it would be nice to be able to copy zone points, in order to use them elsewhere, either in another window, such as Trigger window, or in a script.

[vonotha]

..or highlight points on the map, so they can be used in other dialog using zone restriction.

[blu3s]

+1

[vonotha]

I've found out, there is a way to 'extract' managed zone for the use in script.

'Managed zones' are side's standardzones.

Below is a short managed zone extraction code (here I'm extracting a managed zone defined for 'Commercial' player):

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side = VP_GetSide({side='Commercial'})

print(side)

for i, zone in ipairs(side.standardzones) do
    print(zone)
end

zone = side:getstandardzone('C5TQUD-0HMO5L1PQ10FB') -- identified zone's ID; name should work as well

print(zone.area)

And the output:

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side {
 guid = 'C5TQUD-0HMO57O7Q80SH', 
 name = 'Commercial', 
 units = 'table', 
 contacts = 'table', 
 Chalks = 'table', 
}

zone {
 guid = 'C5TQUD-0HMO5L1PQ10FB', 
 description = 'Caspian Sea Basin', 
 isactive = 'True', 
 area = 'table', 
 type = 'Command_Core.Zone'
}

{ [1] = { name = 'RP-704', side = 'Commercial', longitude = 29.2810808866512, locked = 'Yes', guid = 'C5TQUD-0HMO5L1PQ10EO', highlighted = 'No', latitude = 41.4980152551635 }, [2] = { name = 'RP-705', side = 'Commercial', longitude = 28.2499996928011, locked = 'Yes', guid = 'C5TQUD-0HMO5L1PQ10EP', highlighted = 'No', latitude = 41.9970202899879 }, [3] = { name = 'RP-706', side = 'Commercial', longitude = 28.2252036988374, locked = 'Yes', guid = 'C5TQUD-0HMO5L1PQ10EQ', highlighted = 'No', latitude = 42.8253960571373 }, [4] = { name = 'RP-707', side = 'Commercial', longitude = 29.1665571093305, locked = 'Yes', guid = 'C5TQUD-0HMO5L1PQ10ER', highlighted = 'No', latitude = 43.6169943426325 }, [5] = { name = 'RP-708', side = 'Commercial', longitude = 29.2932146544567, locked = 'Yes', guid = 'C5TQUD-0HMO5L1PQ10ES', highlighted = 'No', latitude = 44.325809407106 }, [6] = { name = 'RP-709', side = 'Commercial', longitude = 30.0649241712034, locked = 'Yes', guid = 'C5TQUD-0HMO5L1PQ10ET', highlighted = 'No', latitude = 45.06519153102 }, [7] = { name = 'RP-710', side = 'Commercial', longitude = 30.4896720859324, locked = 'Yes', guid = 'C5TQUD-0HMO5L1PQ10EU', highlighted = 'No', latitude = 45.7547860088616 }, [8] = { name = 'RP-711', side = 'Commercial', longitude = 31.5729452287089, locked = 'Yes', guid = 'C5TQUD-0HMO5L1PQ10EV', highlighted = 'No', latitude = 45.7304968817137 }, [9] = { name = 'RP-712', side = 'Commercial', longitude = 32.2299991001035, locked = 'Yes', guid = 'C5TQUD-0HMO5L1PQ10F0', highlighted = 'No', latitude = 44.7399360020082 }, [10] = { name = 'RP-713', side = 'Commercial', longitude = 32.3180905169019, locked = 'Yes', guid = 'C5TQUD-0HMO5L1PQ10F1', highlighted = 'No', latitude = 43.8318883986565 }, [11] = { name = 'RP-714', side = 'Commercial', longitude = 35.4512817017141, locked = 'Yes', guid = 'C5TQUD-0HMO5L1PQ10F2', highlighted = 'No', latitude = 44.1424651512865 }, [12] = { name = 'RP-715', side = 'Commercial', longitude = 37.6235213462368, locked = 'Yes', guid = 'C5TQUD-0HMO5L1PQ10F3', highlighted = 'No', latitude = 44.0237269653835 }, [13] = { name = 'RP-716', side = 'Commercial', longitude = 40.4747026314371, locked = 'Yes', guid = 'C5TQUD-0HMO5L1PQ10F4', highlighted = 'No', latitude = 42.6102057237874 }, [14] = { name = 'RP-717', side = 'Commercial', longitude = 40.2979975838121, locked = 'Yes', guid = 'C5TQUD-0HMO5L1PQ10F5', highlighted = 'No', latitude = 41.6513934793672 }, [15] = { name = 'RP-718', side = 'Commercial', longitude = 38.9355781911279, locked = 'Yes', guid = 'C5TQUD-0HMO5L1PQ10F6', highlighted = 'No', latitude = 41.5072114213817 }, [16] = { name = 'RP-719', side = 'Commercial', longitude = 36.877947538288, locked = 'Yes', guid = 'C5TQUD-0HMO5L1PQ10F7', highlighted = 'No', latitude = 41.7430330226876 }, [17] = { name = 'RP-720', side = 'Commercial', longitude = 35.2711366638283, locked = 'Yes', guid = 'C5TQUD-0HMO5L1PQ10F8', highlighted = 'No', latitude = 42.2166498613831 }, [18] = { name = 'RP-721', side = 'Commercial', longitude = 33.0568682472099, locked = 'Yes', guid = 'C5TQUD-0HMO5L1PQ10F9', highlighted = 'No', latitude = 42.2021631867175 }, [19] = { name = 'RP-722', side = 'Commercial', longitude = 31.104206350506, locked = 'Yes', guid = 'C5TQUD-0HMO5L1PQ10FA', highlighted = 'No', latitude = 41.7062012233721 } }

Please let me know, whether there is another method.

[vonotha]

There is one more operation required if one needs to use "managed zone" in unit:inArea method.

Since inArea requires list of points, they should be "dig out" from zone.area structure:

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managed_area = {}

for i, wp in ipairs(zone.area) do
table.insert(managed_area, wp.name)
end

And finally you can use:

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if *unit:inArea(managed_area) then ...

I'm far from Lua expert so I hope someone will show me a better way.

I desperately needed managed area scripted control, and alternative of implementing Ray Casting algorithm (https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Ray-casting_algorithm) seemed worse.