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kendric
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Joined: 09 Dec 2009
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 Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 5:02 am
How does session xml work? What is it?
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So i have a large library of cmud aliases, triggers etc that I use when I mud. I recently wanted to make some global lua functions and saw somewhere about having a session xml and people putting functions in there. Is there some way to make a function that all of my lua triggers\aliases can use? I cannot use the cmud function object and set type to lua as there is a bug currently making it impossible to pass params to functions from lua.
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Rahab
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Joined: 22 Mar 2007
Posts: 2320
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Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 1:44 pm
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I'm not sure what you mean by "a session xml." What you probably heard people talking about is the fact that Cmud packages are stored as xml. You can see the xml version by opening the Package Editor. Highlight any class, module, trigger, or whatever. At the bottom of the window displaying the code or options for whatever you highlighted is a tab labeled 'xml'. Click that tab to see the xml code for it. You can directly edit the xml if you know what you are doing, but it is easy to corrupt your entire package by not closing fields, or making some other error. Direct editing of the xml is discouraged, and you can't do anything in the xml that you couldn't do with straight cmud code. The main use of the xml display is that you can see the code for an entire class or module together, and you can cut and paste it.
In summary, unless I am misunderstanding what you mean by "a session xml", you can't do anything special with it. |
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kendric
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Joined: 09 Dec 2009
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Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 8:27 pm
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Ok. Thanks. Do you know how to create lua global functions basically, or reusable blocks of code between aliases\triggers.
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MattLofton
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Joined: 23 Dec 2000
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Location: USA
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Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:07 pm
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Ok. Thanks. Do you know how to create lua global functions basically, or reusable blocks of code between aliases\triggers.
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#FUNCTION. Alternatively, there's the #VARFUNC for doing it the older ZMud way. #ALIAS has been used to simulate a function call prior to #FUNCTION, but #ALIAS doesn't return anything back to the caller.
By the way, what is a lua global function? |
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kendric
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Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:48 pm
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In the first post, I mentioned I cannot use cmud functions. This is a LUA related question not a zscript question if that was the confusion. I did have one idea though. In lua a function is a variable. I am not at home to try this now but I am thinking i can just store my functions in cmud variables. So like do:
zs.var.myfunctions.trim=function trim(str) do stuff.... end
Then I can use the trim function from anywhere. I will post if that works. It all depends on if they handle storing lua bytecode in cmud vars. |
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