Originally Posted by
HylianGlaceon
I don't know how many people use counters on such a high value, but it'd be very nice to be able to use this for my Bank.
I wouldn't even consider this a bug in ZC. 65,xxx isn't a far cry away from 30,000 compared to a number such as 654,654,679,249,284,264,219,249 or something.
Anyway, if you take a look at some of the things I've done in the Zim's Debugger program that's floating around somewhere, you could get an idea of how to make counters pretty much indefinitely bigger, and I will describe the method of how to do so for you here as well, it's very simple:
Every time said number gets to 1,000, make a different counter, best to do so as an array, add plus 1, and subtract the 999 from the last digit.
Code:
int MYCOUNTER[100]; //This would give you an array of 100 numbers, that's 100 000,000,000,000,000's place values, which is a fairly large number.
if(MYCOUNTER[0]>=1000)//This statement says that the first three place values have been exceeded, and that the first triple digit counter has went beyond a thousand.
{
MYCOUNTER[1]+=(MYCOUNTER[0]%1000-MYCOUNTER[0]%100)/1000; //The next three digit place values are increased by the amount that the first three digit counter
//has exceeded three digits with this statement, which is an easy way to do this as long as the counter doesn't go over the next place value digit more than 999,999 at a
//time. If that happens you'd just need to make sure that there's some way to compensate for that instead.
//So this says: The thousands place value is increased by how much the ones - hundreds place values have exceeded the hundreds place.
MYCOUNTER[0]-=MYCOUNTER[0]%1000-MYCOUNTER[0]%100;}
//This next line says that the original ones, tens, hundreds place values have the thousands place values subtracted from them, since the goal
//is to add onto the next place values in the thousands and keep the every place values equal to or below 999, and add to or borrow from the next 999 place value
//just like elementary school mathematics.
}
//This system works for any amount of numbers until ZC runs out of array space, so technically one could make a counter that would actually fill up the whole entire screen
//with tiny digits.
https://skydrive.live.com/embed?cid=...BJfF_1zCHN1Msw
This file has scripting that you might like to check out.
Instead of using the tiles when it says DrawTile(yada, yada, etc. 65180, etc.) for the various displaying of the counter digits, you could also use a DrawInteger instead for your counters, because when I made those counters I wasn't even aware there was such thing as a drawinteger function.
