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thargy
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Joined: 10 Aug 2004
Posts: 20
Location: UK, Uganda
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 Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 9:42 am
Passing commands to other windows
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OK, so if I want to execute a command in a different window i do the following:
[codemychar:#TZERO[/code]
Great, but what if (as normally happens) my main window name changes for different chars? Well I can do this
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| #VAR MainWindow %window |
To set a variable to the main window name (has to be run in the main window obviously). Followed by:
This works great, except it sometimes creates a syntax error, and sometimes doesn't. This isn't dependent on the variable value, just on where the expression appears. I think it may be a problem with the syntax checker, but unsure.
Is there a better way to do this?
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nexela
Wizard
Joined: 15 Jan 2002
Posts: 1644
Location: USA
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 12:11 pm
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| This works great, except it sometimes creates a syntax error, and sometimes doesn't. This isn't dependent on the variable value, just on where the expression appears. I think it may be a problem with the syntax checker, but unsure. |
Well when does it give an error and when doesn't it. but anyway try this
@{MainWindo}:#TZERO |
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LightBulb
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Joined: 28 Nov 2000
Posts: 4817
Location: USA
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 6:25 pm
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| #VAR MainWindow %window |
To set a variable to the main window name (has to be run in the main window obviously). Followed by:
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I must have missed something. Since you are already in the main window, obviously, then why do you need to redirect the command to the main window? That's where the command already goes, so you could just send the command.
You would only need to know the name of the main window if you were sending commands or text to it from another window. If that's a child window of a single character, then the main window is named 1. |
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thargy
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Joined: 10 Aug 2004
Posts: 20
Location: UK, Uganda
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 9:02 pm
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Sorry, I should have made it obvious, I thought by seperating the two pieces of code it made sense.
I set the variable with the main window name on initialisation (you can also set it to the character name as that is what the window defaults to)
There are many bits of code which then need to send information to the main window from other windows. For example my buttons in my conversation windows need to send tell commands, etc.
The syntax @MainWindow:<command> works fine, but does cause the pretty parser to complain of syntax errors (though the code still runs).
For example, a trigger that just has @MainWindow:#TZERO will show a syntax error in the editor, but will run fine. |
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