Notice: Any messages purporting to come from this site telling you that your password has expired, or that you need to verify your details, confirm your email, resolve issues, making threats, or asking for money, are
spam. We do not email users with any such messages. If you have lost your password you can obtain a new one by using the
password reset link.
Due to spam on this forum, all posts now need moderator approval.
Entire forum
➜ MUSHclient
➜ General
➜ Evaluating client variables in script
|
Evaluating client variables in script
|
It is now over 60 days since the last post. This thread is closed.
Refresh page
| Posted by
| Cosine_Omerta
USA (17 posts) Bio
|
| Date
| Fri 02 Jan 2015 01:07 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| I've been scouring the forum for a few hours, I've watched a few videos, and I can't find a solution to what I'm sure is a simple problem. I'm sorry if this is the 300th time it's been posted.
I have created a miniwindow, with a rectangle, with a hotspot mapped to that rectangle, with a simple mouseup function that sends some text to the mud. I want a client variable to be evaluated against a condition, and depending on that send various text to the mud.
Everything seems to be fine, but I cannot get the conditional statement to evaluate to anything but false.
I have a variable on the client called char_name, which is set via trigger. This works fine. I click on the variables button on the client, it says "char_name Bob", no problems there.
When I try to evaluate this in my script (which is in an xml file and added via plugins) its always false. This is the exact format I've been using in the client, and it evaluates properly there. I'm sure I'm missing some little something.
if (GetVariable("char_name") == "Bob") then
name = "Bob"
else
name = "Dick"
end
function mouseup (flags, hs1)
print(name)
end --mouseup
It always prints "Dick" even though the variable is set to "Bob". | | Top |
|
| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,173 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #1 on Fri 02 Jan 2015 02:18 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| Variables in plug-ins and the main world are in different spaces.
|
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
|
| Posted by
| Cosine_Omerta
USA (17 posts) Bio
|
| Date
| Reply #2 on Fri 02 Jan 2015 02:34 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| Thank you.
How do you go back the other way? Use a call in the script to set a client variable? I don't see a SetPluginVariable type function. SetVariable doesn't work. | | Top |
|
| Posted by
| Cosine_Omerta
USA (17 posts) Bio
|
| Date
| Reply #3 on Tue 06 Jan 2015 09:55 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| | Maybe a different question then. When one wants to share variables between scripts and the client (to have triggers and aliases in the client, and outside scripts or plugins all using the same variable), what is the preferred method? | | Top |
|
| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,173 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #4 on Wed 07 Jan 2015 02:25 AM (UTC) |
| Message
|
Cosine_Omerta said:
Thank you.
How do you go back the other way? Use a call in the script to set a client variable? I don't see a SetPluginVariable type function. SetVariable doesn't work.
Plugins are intended to be independent of each other and the main script file. Having plugins set each others variables does not work with that design concept. So there is no SetPluginVariable function, by design.
However you can work around this by having a plugin "Execute" some thing which an alias in the main world file picks up and changes a variable. I think someone else came up with a more sophisticated method a while back as well, can't remember what it was. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
|
| Posted by
| Cosine_Omerta
USA (17 posts) Bio
|
| Date
| Reply #5 on Wed 07 Jan 2015 03:36 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| | Surely people do this though. Do they just keep any associated variables/triggers/aliases in the plugin file? Then just use multiple aliases that do the same thing for different plugins? | | Top |
|
| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,173 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #6 on Wed 07 Jan 2015 05:32 AM (UTC) Amended on Wed 07 Jan 2015 05:34 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon
|
| Message
| I seem to have answered your original question. Is this new question (setting variables rather than reading them) mere curiosity, or do you have an application in mind?
If so, what is it?
http://xyproblem.info/ |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
|
| Posted by
| Cosine_Omerta
USA (17 posts) Bio
|
| Date
| Reply #7 on Wed 07 Jan 2015 09:20 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| | Sorry. Just new to mushclient and trying to figure it out. Didn't mean to be a pest. | | Top |
|
The dates and times for posts above are shown in Universal Co-ordinated Time (UTC).
To show them in your local time you can join the forum, and then set the 'time correction' field in your profile to the number of hours difference between your location and UTC time.
27,280 views.
It is now over 60 days since the last post. This thread is closed.
Refresh page
![[Go to top]](/images/gototop.gif)
top
