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Getting edict from name

I'd like to be able to get the edict of a client when they send a radio message, but all I have access to is the name of the sending client. Is there a command in the SDK that will let me do this?
FIND_ENTITY_BY_STRING

sounds like it would do the trick, but I don't know where to find a listing of available fieldnames... can anyone fill me in?

Thanks again- this forum has been a great help!

-JB

Re: Getting edict from name

There is no facility available in the SDK that will do what you want that I know of. However, you can simply find the edict_t of a particular client given his name, if you cycle through all of them and compare their netname with the supplied one.

Code:

int iClientIndex;

edict_t *pClient;

 

pClient = NULL; // initialize

 

// cycle through all clients...

for (iClientIndex = 1; iClientIndex < gpGlobals->maxClients; iClientIndex++)

{

   pClient = INDEXENT (iClientIndex);

 

   if (FNullEnt (pClient))

          continue; // discard invalid client slots

 

   if (strcmp ("two_masks", STRING (pClient->v.netname)) == 0)

          break; // it's this client !

}

 

// have we finally found a client ?

if (!FNullEnt (pClient))

{

   DoSomeStuffWithClient (pClient);

   DoSomeOtherStuffWithClient (pClient);

   SlapClientAroundABit (pClient);

   MakeClientJumpUpAndDown (pClient);

   ClientWriteALoveLetterToYourMomma (pClient);

   // etc...

}