Script not working

[Stubbsy]

Slowly but surely getting there, but needing some help.

I've created this:

addMessageCallback("MsgCtfLlamaGrab", foo);

function foo (%msgType, %msgString, %a1, %a2) {
    echo($a2 + " Llama grabbed " + %a1 + "'s flag");
    echo("%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%");
}

It's displaying "0"...

 

[57thEnryu]

so you are making a script that says "foo" every time you llama the flag?

ok then....

 

[Stubbsy]

so you are making a script that says "foo" every time you llama the flag?

ok then....

Clearly not...

 

[Belberith]

echo($a2

Should be %a2

 

[Stubbsy]

echo($a2

Should be %a2

Yeah, I changed that. It's still displaying 0 for some reason..

 

[57thEnryu]

Clearly not...

oh I see, nvm (not the best with code...)

 

[Stubbsy]

oh I see, nvm (not the best with code...)

Lol no worries!

 

[Belberith]

Oh right, I'd forgotten that TorqueScript deals with strings differently than an actual programming language.
%a2 + " Llama grabbed " + %a1 + "'s flag"
This will literally add the values of the numbers or strings converted to numbers, and any string in TS is numerically equivalent to 0. The concatenate symbol is @, so it should look like this:
%a2 @ " Llama grabbed " @ %a1 @ "'s flag"
SPC and TAB are other concatenation keywords, inserting a space or a tab respectively.

 

[Stubbsy]

Oh right, I'd forgotten that TorqueScript deals with strings differently than an actual programming language.
%a2 + " Llama grabbed " + %a1 + "'s flag"
This will literally add the values of the numbers or strings converted to numbers, and any string in TS is numerically equivalent to 0. The concatenate symbol is @, so it should look like this:
%a2 @ " Llama grabbed " @ %a1 @ "'s flag"
SPC and TAB are other concatenation keywords, inserting a space or a tab respectively.

Thanks for that, but, now it's not echoing out anything at all in the console.

addMessageCallback("MsgLlamaCtfGrab", foo);

function foo (%msgType, %msgString, %a1, %a2) {
echo(%a1 @ " flag has been Llama'd by " @ %a2);
echo("%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%");
}

I also tried concatenating with a comma, using detag and stripping color, but it still doesn't display anything.

addMessageCallback("MsgLlamaCtfGrab", foo);

function foo (%msgType, %msgString, %a1, %a2) {

%teamName = textFormat(%a1);

echo(%teamName @ " flag has been Llama'd");
echo("%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%");
}

function textFormat (%a1) {
return stripColorCodes(replaceTeamStrings(detag(%a1)));
}

 

[Belberith]

Your exact code prints stuff fine for me (you'll want to use detag and replaceTeamStrings though). I put it in client/scripts/message.cs.

 

[Stubbsy]

Your exact code prints stuff fine for me (you'll want to use detag and replaceTeamStrings though). I put it in client/scripts/message.cs.

Thanks for your help. I was writing the script in "autoexec" folder all along. But why didn't it work anyway in the autoexec folder?

 

[Belberith]

No prob. It didn't work there because the client/scripts path is executed after the mods/autoexec path, so the addMessageCallback functionality doesn't exist yet when called in a mods/autoexec file.

 

[Stubbsy]

No prob. It didn't work there because the client/scripts path is executed after the mods/autoexec path, so the addMessageCallback functionality doesn't exist yet when called in a mods/autoexec file.

Got you. Thanks!