Quest dialogue

[JagexPlease 0]

Okay, so I've figured out how to do this. But it's really hacky and pretty inefficient, so I was wondering if someone else has a better suggestion on how to go through dialogue

 

Basically I have a array with all the possible dialogue options with that character, then it clicks through the dialogue if it can space/click to continue then while options are available a while loop just cycles through and checks if anything in the array matches the dialogue options.

 

Avert your gaze if you are faint of heart

int i = 0;
String[] possibleChoices = {"DIALOGUE TEXT", "MORE DIALOGUE TEXT"};


if (!getDialogues().canContinue() && getDialogues().inDialogue()) {
            log("!getDialogues = true");
            while (i < possibleChoices.length) {
                getDialogues().chooseOption(possibleChoices[i]);
                log("i = " + i);
                i++;
            }
            if(i >= possibleChoices.length - 1){
                i = 0;
            }
        }

I guess I could just hard code it so it just follows a set path of dialogue, but that seems a bit lame.

 

Any help appreciated, thanks!

 

EDIT : 

 

Also is there a way to maybe tell what the bot has selected, so that when a certain option is set I can change a variable to something else

 

basically

If(textChosen == "example answer"){
     state = 2;
}

[Koschei 147]

 

Okay, so I've figured out how to do this. But it's really hacky and pretty inefficient, so I was wondering if someone else has a better suggestion on how to go through dialogue

 

Basically I have a array with all the possible dialogue options with that character, then it clicks through the dialogue if it can space/click to continue then while options are available a while loop just cycles through and checks if anything in the array matches the dialogue options.

 

Avert your gaze if you are faint of heart

int i = 0;
String[] possibleChoices = {"DIALOGUE TEXT", "MORE DIALOGUE TEXT"};


if (!getDialogues().canContinue() && getDialogues().inDialogue()) {
            log("!getDialogues = true");
            while (i < possibleChoices.length) {
                getDialogues().chooseOption(possibleChoices[i]);
                log("i = " + i);
                i++;
            }
            if(i >= possibleChoices.length - 1){
                i = 0;
            }
        }

I guess I could just hard code it so it just follows a set path of dialogue, but that seems a bit lame.

 

Any help appreciated, thanks!

 

EDIT : 

 

Also is there a way to maybe tell what the bot has selected, so that when a certain option is set I can change a variable to something else

 

basically

If(textChosen == "example answer"){
     state = 2;
}

Ermm you would you want to use .equals() for comparing strings btw. 

 

Then you would also want to check to make sure that option is available. 

 

By either converting getDialogues().getOptions() to String and seeing if it contains it, looping through the options, or what I prefer to do is just check if the option index contains a String like so: getDialogues().getOptionIndex(aDialogue) > 0.

 

Also to check if you can choose an option I would use getDialogues().getOptions() != null instead of using !getDialogues().canContinue().

 

Furthermore, you can use a break to stop the loop once it chooses the correct option and for readability sake, I would also recommend a for loop over a while loop (doesn't really make much of a difference though).

 

Then if you're using this for more than one dialogue you can also make a method out of it then just have it either return an int (to sleep) or just have it set as a void. 

private void dialogueThingy (String[] dialogue){

    //Continue dialogue if should continue

    //Choose option if it should choose an option

}

 

Then you can just put a different array when you're talking to a different person or something. 

 

Now just wait for another scripter to point out a better method*

[dQw4w9WgXcQ 184]

gurl noooo

[Hashtag 8707]

I use something like this myself.

final String[] OPTIONS = {"Hey, you look worried.", "How can I help?", "Yes."};

if (getDialogues().inDialogue() && !getDialogues().continueDialogue()) {
  for(String option : OPTIONS) {
    if (getDialogues().chooseOption(option)) {
      break;
    }
  }
}

[Articron 738]

Best achievable with a recursive solution:
 

public boolean solveDialogue(String... options) {
        if (!getDialogues().inDialogue())
            return true;
        if (getDialogues().canContinue()) {
            return getDialogues().spaceToContinue() && solveDialogue(options);
        }
        for (String option : options) {
            for (String chatOption : getDialogues().getOptions()) {
                if (option.equals(chatOption)) {
                    return getDialogues().clickOption(option) && solveDialogue(options);
                }
            }
        }
        return solveDialogue(options);
    }

Use:

solveDialogue("hey there", "Nah");

This will press enter for regular dialogue and pick the dialogues you left in the parameters when its supposed to do so.

Should probably put in some sleeping in there though.

[Hashtag 8707]

Best achievable with a recursive solution:

 

public boolean solveDialogue(String... options) {
        if (!getDialogues().inDialogue() || getDialogues().canContinue())
            return true;
        if (getDialogues().canContinue()) {
            return getDialogues().spaceToContinue() && solveDialogue(options);
        }
        for (String option : options) {
            for (String chatOption : getDialogues().getOptions()) {
                if (option.equals(chatOption)) {
                    return getDialogues().clickOption(option) && solveDialogue(options);
                }
            }
        }
        return solveDialogue(options);
    }

Use:

solveDialogue("hey there", "Nah");

This will press enter for regular dialogue and pick the dialogues you left in the parameters when its supposed to do so.

Should probably put in some sleeping in there though.

Why not make use of the API's boolean return types (see my post above). No need to loop through the available options and compare if they're the ones you need to click.

[Articron 738]

Why not make use of the API's boolean return types (see my post above). No need to loop through the available options and compare if they're the ones you need to click.

 

It assumes the possibility that he may type a certain option wrong, but you're definitely right xd

[JagexPlease 0]

Thanks guys, so many good solutions (as always)! 

[dQw4w9WgXcQ 184]

Should probably do a check for isDialogueContinuing(), unfortunately theres no method in dreambot for this.

 

This also does 1 action per loop, which is how i prefer to do it, but you could put this method in a loop in another method if you want to handle dialogue in 1 call.  You would probably want to change the return values though.  

 

usage: 

if(getDialogue.inDialogue()){
   doDialogue(CHOOSE_OPTIONS)
}

    public boolean doDialogue(String ... chooseOptions){
        if(getDialogues().canContinue()){
            getDialogues().continueDialogue();
            return true;
        }

        String options[] = getDialogues().getOptions();

        if(options == null){
            return false;
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < options.length; i++) {
            for (String chooseOption : chooseOptions) {
                if(options[i].contains(chooseOption)){
                    getDialogues().chooseOption(i+1);
                    return true;
                }
            }
        }

        return false;
    }