help with code

[Leander Tyles]

integer getRefund(integer expiration)
{ return (((expiration - llGetUnixTime()) / 86400) * RENT_RATE / 7); }

this little code determines / returns...  how much to refund a person based on thier rental time left,

but i also want to deduct a 20% fee

 

can sombody help

 

 

 

 

[Ela Talaj]

Try this:

integer getRefund(integer expiration)
{

  expiration -= (llGetUnixTime() / 86400) *( RENT_RATE / 7);

  return llRound(expiration*0.8);

}

[Leander Tyles]

return llRound(expiration*0.8);

 

this line seems to cause me problems,

script error "llDialog: button labels must be 24 or fewer characters long"

 

i know i didnt provide any code involving dialogs but it only breaks when i use the GETREFUND function

 the word 'refund' comes up in the project alot but this is the only thing i see which involves the dialog

 

mainMenu(uuid,  msg + DLG_MSGd + partner + DLG_MSGe, unixExpiration,
                            [iNFO_BTN, PARTNER_BTN, DESIGN_BTN,
                            MOVE_BTN + "\t\t," + (string)getRefund(unixExpiration)]);

 

[Leander Tyles]

i done this

integer getRefund(integer expiration)
{
  expiration -= (llGetUnixTime() / 86400) * ( RENT_RATE / 7);
  llSay(0,(string)expiration);
  //return llRound(expiration*0.8);
  return expiration;
}

 

expiration is 1372158634

so * 0.8 would be 1097726907.2

i think this is whats crashing it

[Leander Tyles]

integer getRefund(integer expiration)
{
integer test = (((expiration - llGetUnixTime()) / 86400) * RENT_RATE / 7);
return llRound(test*0.8);
}

i beleive i got it working, thanks

86400 seconds in a day,

lets pretend i have 2 weeks left on my rental so:

14 days * the rental price which is 20 lindens = 280

280 / 7 = 40

which is correct if i rented a shop for 20L pw for 2 weeks it would come to L$40

so how the hell did we get from thier to -20% fee just using llround

i wish i could understand it, the only thing different is the llround line and that only multiplys the test variable which was always present in my code to begin with o well if it works it works im happy

[Ela Talaj]

your code (very bad in style btw) is only going to work if getRefund() argument, which is expiration is Unix time also (number of seconds since Epoc), which I assumed would be the case. Apparently not, otherwise you would not be getting huge numbers.