"Random Wisecrack" Marco?

Okay, so here's the story...

One of my characters is supposed to be a chatty wisecracker. Think Deadpool or Spider-man. Point is, I want to set up a keybind to have him spout random wisecracks with a single button, from a set list.

I know it's possible to set up a cycling bind through /bindloadfile, so I could go through several phrases in a preset order. What I want to do is set up a randomized version, pulling a random phrase from the list each time. So, the question is: Is that possible, and how can I do it?

Only way I can think would be to use an external program to rewrite the bindloadfile. A simple batch file would probably do it. The random function in batch -- in win2000/NT/XP anyway, I'm not sure about Vista/Win7 -- generates a number from 1-32768. Just do *random*/1024 to get a random number from 1-32, then assign a witty statement to each number and write the appropriate bind file.

Final application is left as an assignment for the reader.

Not without using an external program of some sort. I do recall someone creating something to do this long time ago, but no clue where it might be.

Bah, easy enough, it was right there in the Guide to Guides

Linky

Marco is a pretty random wisecrack, yes.

Oh, that's cute. It isn't technically random, but it rotates the phrase every second. So unless you use the bind on an exact schedule it is effectively random. If there were 30 phrases and you used the bind exactly every 30 seconds it wouldn't work, but no one would do that. Very clever.

It seems the original batch file code written in the linked thread is borked.

If you're seeing this in the first post:

Code:

Target.bat contents (the "for" line is all one line):

@echo off

:TOP

for /f "delims=zzz" %%i in (phrases.txt) do (echo space "local %%i$$unselect$$toggle_enemy$$bind_load_fileC:\kb\target.txt">target.txt)&&sleep 1&&echo %%i

GOTO TOP

...then, replace the parts in red with the ones below in yellow:

Code:

Target.bat contents (the "for" line is all one line):

@echo off

:TOP

for /f "delims=zzz" %%i in (phrases.txt) do (echo space "local %%i$$unselect$$toggle_enemy$$bind_loadfile C:\kb\target.txt">target.txt)&&sleep 1&&echo %%i

GOTO TOP

I'm using it right now, modified according to taste, and it's fine on Vista (x86)

I never realized how much fun I was missing without this.

My first home computer was an Apple II - or was that Apple ][? Could never keep it straight.

Lode runner sounds fun Haven't played it in a loooong time.

My first computer was a Tandy... ;-;

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

My first computer was a stick and a rock!

LEGION OF VALOR - Be a part of the Legend!

I miss my C-64. I had a lot of fun with that thing.

I have a set of 53 insult taunt binds for my tanks -- some are modified Dangerfield lines, a couple of obligatory Python lines, a few "your Momma" jokes, and a few stupid ones -- well, ok, most of them are stupid. I just set them up to cycle, but there are so many of them, I have to be teamed with the same team for a while before they see repeats.

My first computer (in Grad School) was an Atari 800 -- it was my word processor for years. Better sound and graphics than the Apple ][ or the later C-64, and the original 800 was built solid. $899 got me 16K of RAM, and an extra $199 for a Cassette drive. I taught myself how to program in Assembler on that machine. Eventually I got a single-sided, single density 5 1/4 floppy drive, where we would use a hole punch to notch an edge of the disk to flip it over and use the other side. Those disks held 88K of data -- 76K after you put on DOS.

And a 300 baud Acoustic Modem (as in Wargames, where you put the phone handset in the black cups -- "Trimline" phones didn't fit) calling BBS's . . .

I tried this... and discovered that most of the random statements were inappropriate to most situations or just not that funny. What I want is a guide to WRITING them.

I have used that macro for a while and it is good. The only issue I have with it is that you can't use 'z's in the text or the saying is truncated and the macro gets locked into just that saying. I had to go thru all the text and replace the 'z' with 's' in order to get around the problem.