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Captain_Wrathbow
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Lua question

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The following code is taken from the 1.7 addon "Wesnoth Lua Pack", published by Melinath. In case you don't know, this was a collection of useful snippets of lua code for people to use.
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I want to be able to use these two tags in my campaign, but unfortunately I don't know the first thing about lua, how it works, syntax, or how to embed it in my WML. I'm really not that interested in learning lua right now, (although I's like to get around to it sometime) I just want to be able to use this code. What do I have to do to make those two tags usable in my campaign? Do I have to put that code in a certain place in my campaign's files? Do I need to put it within some other WML tags? Do I need to add anything to my _main.cfg file?
Forgive my ignorance, but I know absolutely nothing about lua... any help is appreciated. Thanks. :)
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Re: Lua question

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You need to place them in a preload event, like this:

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[event]
  name=preload
  first_time_only=no
  [lua]
    code=<<

        -- The lua snippets here.

    >>
  [/lua]
[/event]
Of course, the event must be in a place that will launch anywhere the new tags are used. So, an [era], or maybe in all your scenarios (if it's a campaign), or an ever-present [unit_type]. You can also make a macro out of the whole event so it's easier to call in all scenarios or something. Anyway, I think you know how that works at that point :)
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Re: Lua question

Post by Captain_Wrathbow »

And then I can use [store_shroud] and [set_shroud] as if they were normal WML tags?
Huh, that's more simple than I was expecting... :o
Neat, thanks! :D


Also, just out of curiosity, why does it have to be first_time_only=no? If it's "preload", wouldn't it only happen once no matter what? :hmm:
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Re: Lua question

Post by Pentarctagon »

wiki wrote:Note: Unlike prestart and start, the preload event must be able to fire more than once! This is because it is triggered each time a savegame is loaded in addition to the initial time when it loads before the scenario 'prestart'. This means that it is effectively mandatory to have the first_time_only=no key value in a preload event.
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Re: Lua question

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A better strategy would be to put the above lua code in a file named (e.g.) wml_tags.lua and to load it like this (untested):

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[event]
  name=preload
  first_time_only=no
  [lua]
    code=<<
    helper = wesnoth.require("lua/helper.lua")--you'll also need to load this since those lua functions use it
    wesnoth.dofile("~add-ons/Your_Addon_Directory_Name/lua/wml_tags.lua")
    >>
  [/lua]
[/event]
This has the (absolutely fantastic!!!) advantage that the lua code is not loaded during wml preprocessing time meaning that when you (may) want to start editing lua you don't need to go back to the mainscreen to test changes and a lot more goodies. (syntax highlight, wesnoth-independant stack traceback,...)
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Re: Lua question

Post by Captain_Wrathbow »

@Pentarctagon: Ah ha. I see.

@Anonymissimus: Interesting. I'll have to try that too.

Thanks, everyone! :)
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