Plugin variable scope

I tried looking around for this but couldn't find anything specifically addressing it.

I'm just trying to figure out if the variables in a plugin and my script file, or even the command line, are all in the same script space. Can I do

in a plugin and then

in a script file function/CLI or vice versa and have it act as I'd expect?

They aren't.



You can try it and find out.

Since plugins can be written in different languages (eg. Lua, Python, VBscript) it would be impossible for them to share the same variables.

Also the main world has its own script space, as Fiendish said.

Well then my next question is, how do I pass values or arrays between them, then?

You can use CallPlugin:



Or you can retrieve client variables (not script variables) using GetPluginVariable:



CallPlugin is more interactive, you actively call a function in another plugin, passing a value (or multiple values). GetPluginVariable lets you retrieve a variable from another plugin, assuming you realize you need to do that.

You can also "Execute" an alias, which another plugin can pick up. eg.



So then you make an alias in the target plugin which matches "somerandomstring *" and the number 666 then gets passed to that plugin.

You could send tables by serializing them into a string.