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Escort missions - 8/3/2018 11:49:49 AM

Gunner98

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Hay guys

This should be a simple one but I'm doing something wrong with it.

for i=1,18 do
if ScenEdit_GetUnit({Side='WP', Name="582nd IAP #"..i,}) ~= nil then
ScenEdit_AssignUnitToMission("582nd IAP #"..i, "Laage AB", escort=True)
end
end

Everything is working except for assigning the units as escort. Assigning to the base mission is fine, so its probably a syntax issue with the Boolean statement for assigning to escort. Have tried various combinations of ' & } to no effect.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

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RE: Escort missions - 8/3/2018 2:28:55 PM

stilesw

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Gunnar98,

Think I found it. The syntax does not want the word "escort" (go figure). I tested this and it worked:

ScenEdit_AssignUnitToMission ("F-15I-1", "Strike-Baghdad", true)

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RE: Escort missions - 8/3/2018 2:48:00 PM

Gunner98

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Thanks Wayne

Weird - also had an issue with using a capital 'T'! So true has to be all lower case.

Thanks

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RE: Escort missions - 8/3/2018 4:37:57 PM

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I found that also. Also several cases where the Lua documentation names do not match what's needed such as in the unit wrapper - the example provided uses unit.class where you actually must use unit.classname. Just shows that the more complex the system the more "minor" glitches can occur.

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RE: Escort missions - 8/3/2018 11:18:56 PM

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quote:

ScenEdit_AssignUnitToMission("582nd IAP #"..i, "Laage AB", escort=True)

The 'xxx=yyy' as a parameter is really only relevant to Lua tables. The core Lua interpreter usually works on specific keywords and is mainly case sensitive.
Where possible, table parameters are treated as case insenitive

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RE: Escort missions - 8/4/2018 1:16:19 PM

stilesw

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Thanks for the explanation. That helps.

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RE: Escort missions - 8/4/2018 7:29:23 PM

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