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Adept Joined: 18 Jun 2019 Posts: 279

I have a bunch of vars, each has a unique number. They relate to mud portal tokens. Holds the token, enter the portal.

One portal token ID for area 'goldrush' is 2219436672 and, when I look at the value in the editor I see this number. However, when I use my script to use it it fails as the script seems to be looking for 2465638708.

I searched everywhere in editor and could not find this value. Yet, when I look at the XML for this class (Portal_VARS), I see:

Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2021 5:44 pm

Without knowing how you assign the numbers in the first place, I could only offer bad speculation.

Adept Joined: 18 Jun 2019 Posts: 279

I checked my equipment dbvars after getting the XML into a text editor and 2465638708 exists nowhere.

This is certainly perplexing. I can find no scripts which write to the above vars which specify that series of digits and no vars which contain that series of digits.

I grabbed the XML from ALL my code and those two values I pasted in the code are the ONLY place where that number exists...and they exist only after being modified by something.

Adept Joined: 18 Jun 2019 Posts: 279

OK. So I re-ran my script to write the portals vars and the editor value was correct but the json value did not change when I viewed the XML.

Then, I changed so that both values were correct and closed client. Opened client again and both values (XML) changed back to the incorrect one...and I still have nowhere which actually writes that number.

Then I changed the value and closed the client. After restarting client I checked the value in the editor and it was correct but when I looked at the XML, both values were incorrect.

HOW is it possible that the value shown in the editor does not match those shown when viewing the XML? I actually have 3 values: 1 correct and 2 incorrect for the same VAR.

Finally, I saved the 'script' for this one var usi9ng the little DISK icon in editor and it saved 2219436672 but exporting that same var as XML gives me

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<cmud>
<var name="goldrush">
<value>2465638708</value>
<json>2465638708</json>
</var>
</cmud>

Does this seem like rational and normal behaviour to ANYONE?

Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 12:50 am

It's possible you might have two copies of the variable.

Adept Joined: 18 Jun 2019 Posts: 279

No. I searched everywhere. In the end I deleted it and recreated it. I shall see how that goes.

Adept Joined: 18 Jun 2019 Posts: 279

Recreating the variable has fixed that problem.

No need to express my frustration at the client.

Apprentice Joined: 23 Aug 2013 Posts: 175

THere is something with cmud saving the client to the specific session in xml that simply wont change, so you may have changed the values but it overwrites that changew when you save the session, delete the .xly and .zg settings in the root folder for your cmud directories/session.. sometimes this will allow changes to the .xml of your session. Some i've imported simply will NOT change