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Ceres
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 2:36 pm   

[1.24] Sending Variables to other windows
 
I am unable to have variables send to other windows such as chat windows.

1. Open a session
2. Create a new window from command line '#WINDOW Test'
3. Create a variable from command line 'Variable="Will this work"
4. Test that the variable is set '#SAY %time @Variable'
5. Try sending the same to the Test window ':Test:#SAY %time @Variable'

The contents of the variable is not displayed even though the result of %time is!

6. From the command line typing ':Test:#SAY %time This works' works as expected

I have tried many variations of to get this to work but cannot.

Is this a Bug or is there a way to do it which I cannot fathom?
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Guinn
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 3:09 pm   
 
#EXEC {:Test:#SAY %time @Variable}

May be quirky, may be a bug, will let you pick.

May be quirky because of the way #EXEC treats variables
http://forums.zuggsoft.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=25777

May be buggy because even with #EXEC it trims spaces, but when you do
#EXEC {:Test:#SAY %time "@Variable"}
it stops the variable being expanded.
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Ceres
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 3:24 pm   
 
Thanks for the response, at least I can adapt my scripts to work now.

Personally I believe it to be a bug as #EXEC should not be necessary to accomplish the sending of a variable to another window.
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Seb
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 5:06 pm   
 
The reason the other window isn't getting the value of the variable is probably because the variable is not being expanded in the window you sent it from, but instead is trying to be expanded in the window you are sending it too. Since the variable doesn't exist there, nothing is displayed. You therefore need to ensure you expand the variable in the first window. #EXEC is one way of doing that. Alternatively you need to ensure that the variable is able to be read from the other window.
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Guinn
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 5:10 pm   
 
Problem with that is that putting #EXEC around strips the spaces from the variable
If you then do what Zugg suggested in the post I linked to and put quotes around @variable then it stops it expanding and just shows it as literally "@Variable"
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Seb
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 5:58 pm   
 
How about if the variable is in a published package? Then it should be visible to both windows...
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Ceres
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 6:04 pm   
 
Settings (variables) in the main Mud window are not 'published'?
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Seb
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 6:09 pm   
 
Correct.
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