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LUA frustration! Help needed! - 6/3/2017 11:45:33 AM   
MasterStomper

 

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Status: offline 		Hello!

I´m working on a big scenarion which includes forward basing of USN and USAF fighters at allied airfields. I´m trying (to no avail) to use the new ScenEdit_FillMagsForLoadout script to have the bases magazines armed with the relevant loadouts. However i try i keep getting error messages like below:

ScenEdit_FillMagsForLoadout('{unit='RAF Lakenheath', loadoutid=4795, quantity=12}') (trying to load F-22 loadouts to RAF Lakenheath, mission trigger is a C-5 galaxy landing there)

Keep getting this error message:

"Lua script execution error: [string "test"]:1: `)`expected near `RAF`"

I´m sure its got something to do with my syntaxing but i´ve tried variations ad nauseam.

Any input?

MasterStomper


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RE: LUA frustration! Help needed! - 6/3/2017 12:06:42 PM   
User2

 

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Status: offline 		Never tried to write lua scripts in this game. But here is my guess:
String shenanigans issue. How do you think lua interpreter should understand that second ' is the start of another string, not the end of the first one? Try using "" in ''

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RE: LUA frustration! Help needed! - 6/3/2017 12:12:38 PM   
MasterStomper

 

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Status: offline 		Thx for help, not an avid coder as you see. How would you type that string then?

ScenEdit_FillMagsForLoadout('{unit="RAF Lakenheath", loadoutid=4795, quantity=12}')

?

thx

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RE: LUA frustration! Help needed! - 6/3/2017 12:41:13 PM   
User2

 

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Status: offline 		I would have tried all the variants I could.

ScenEdit_FillMagsForLoadout('{unit="RAF Lakenheath", loadoutid=4795, quantity=12}')
and
ScenEdit_FillMagsForLoadout("{unit='RAF Lakenheath', loadoutid=4795, quantity=12}")
and
ScenEdit_FillMagsForLoadout('{unit=\'RAF Lakenheath\', loadoutid=4795, quantity=12}')
and
ScenEdit_FillMagsForLoadout("{unit=\"RAF Lakenheath\", loadoutid=4795, quantity=12}")

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RE: LUA frustration! Help needed! - 6/3/2017 12:54:13 PM   
MasterStomper

 

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Status: offline 		alternatives:

1: Lua script execution error: [string "test"]:1:invalid arguments to method call

2: Same

3: Same

4: Same

Funny. New error msg...

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RE: LUA frustration! Help needed! - 6/3/2017 1:02:53 PM   
Owllord


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From: Tokyo, Japan
Status: offline 		Did you try:

ScenEdit_FillMagsForLoadout({unit="RAF Lakenheath", loadoutid=4795, quantity=12})?

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RE: LUA frustration! Help needed! - 6/3/2017 1:48:10 PM   
MasterStomper

 

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Status: offline 		That worked Owl!

What did i do wrong?

Stomp

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RE: LUA frustration! Help needed! - 6/3/2017 2:44:36 PM   
Owllord


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From: Tokyo, Japan
Status: offline 		Hi MasterStomper,

Great to hear it worked! :)
You don't need ' around tables in LUA scripts, just the values in {} separated by , will do the trick!

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RE: LUA frustration! Help needed! - 6/5/2017 12:08:51 PM   
Primarchx


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Status: offline 		Lua syntax is a bit strange for me coming from the C world.

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