scripting?

[Orchard]

Current Quest: is there a round() function? (So that when I do a LEVEL/2, I can chop off the .5 at the end of odd levels.)

Nevermind - I found it.

there is also a floor() function, which you may prefer...it always rounds down, which is more appropriate for D&D style stuff...since it follows the rules of rounding for D&D.

[syntruth]

Sorta off-topic, but maybe something the devs could some day look into us using LuaJava to include an actual scripting language. Maybe for the some day 1.4 branch. An actual language (and Lua is easy to learn/use) could open up so many possibilities.

[Orchard]

Sorta off-topic, but maybe something the devs could some day look into us using LuaJava to include an actual scripting language. Maybe for the some day 1.4 branch. An actual language (and Lua is easy to learn/use) could open up so many possibilities.

There's been talk of a number of scripting languages, but I think the default choice will probably be javascript.

I keep hounding on multisupport, with python, javascript and others making the regular mention. But lua sounds good to me.

Essentially anything that has a free java plugin has a pretty good chance of making it.

It will happen someday, but 1.4 is a good timeline.

[ltwally]

Yeah, I've been using FLOOR().

Having a hard time with EVAL(), though.

Here is some sample code for a healing spell. I think it's pretty obvious:

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Myself or one ally can spend a healing surge plus [eval(floor(LEVEL/5), "d6")] hp.

It doesn't work though. Not at all. Not when LEVEL is 5, or 6, or 200.

I've tried replacing the comma in EVAL with a +. That did nothing to fix it.

Any ideas?

[Mr. Pokeylope]

Yeah, I've been using FLOOR().

Having a hard time with EVAL(), though.

Here is some sample code for a healing spell. I think it's pretty obvious:

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Myself or one ally can spend a healing surge plus [eval(floor(LEVEL/5), "d6")] hp.

It doesn't work though. Not at all. Not when LEVEL is 5, or 6, or 200.

I've tried replacing the comma in EVAL with a +. That did nothing to fix it.

Any ideas?

Try [eval("" + floor(LEVEL/5) + "d6")]. By starting with a string, you force it to interpret + as concatenation instead of addition. (Of course, I'm at work at the moment and can't test it, but I think that should work.)

You don't actually need eval in this case, though; you can use [roll(floor(LEVEL/5), 6)].

[ltwally]

I ended up giving up on EVAL(). Turns out it wasn't really necessary.

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<br>Myself or one ally can spend a healing surge plus <b>{roll(min(floor((LEVEL-1)/5),5)+1,6)}</b> hp.

It's not super-pretty... but it works.

[BigO]

I ended up giving up on EVAL(). Turns out it wasn't really necessary.

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<br>Myself or one ally can spend a healing surge plus <b>{roll(min(floor((LEVEL-1)/5),5)+1,6)}</b> hp.

It's not super-pretty... but it works.

Yeah, that's what I was going to suggest. eval is mostly used when storing dice rolls in properties. If you have a propterty called FOO with a value of d6 and you have this macro:

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You did {FOO} damage

You will get:

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You did d6 damage

So you have to use eval:

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You did {eval(FOO)} damage

Which might get you:

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You did 4 damage

Of course some people don't like using eval, so your other option is to store the brackets in the property like {d6} then it will parse it when run and you don't have to use eval.

[loogie]

as for more scripting logic don't expect must for 1.3... build 1.3 is in its polishing stages, so no new updates will be made... trevor will be starting 1.4 in the near future (near as in whenever people stop finding bugs for 1.3) and with 1.4 there are a lot of new additions trevor plans... from what i've heard, he wants to allow much more then just scripting, but building of modules and such to create addons... of course everything is subject to when he actually starts working on it... but with the extra help he's been getting recently... we can expect great things from rptools... a hazzah to the new devs, and the head dev trevor!

[ltwally]

Another scripting question:

Does anyone know of a way to do some math and have the results stored in a variable without it being displayed in the chat window??

In some of my macros, I have really long damage rolls. I store them in variables so I can display the result in multiple places, and show things like half-damage on a miss and such. But that huge ugly roll at the top... undesirable.

If you have any ideas: Thanks!!

[BigO]

Another scripting question:

Does anyone know of a way to do some math and have the results stored in a variable without it being displayed in the chat window??

In some of my macros, I have really long damage rolls. I store them in variables so I can display the result in multiple places, and show things like half-damage on a miss and such. But that huge ugly roll at the top... undesirable.

If you have any ideas: Thanks!!

Before build b41 I liked to use html comments:

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<!-- [MyRoll=d20] -->You do {MyRoll} damage!

But after b41 (actually I think this was in b40 as well) you can do this:

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[H:MyRoll=d20]You do {MyRoll} damage!

The H: option hides the output.

[ltwally]

That does the trick. And it even leaves the output in the history logs (and if everyone knows that up front, no one will be tempted to be naughty boys or girls).

Thanks!