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| Posted by
| Kevnuke
USA (145 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Sat 30 Mar 2019 08:00 AM (UTC) |
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| I tried looking around for this but couldn't find anything specifically addressing it.
I'm just trying to figure out if the variables in a plugin and my script file, or even the command line, are all in the same script space. Can I do
_G["testvariable"] = "foo"
in a plugin and then
print (testvariable)
-> foo
in a script file function/CLI or vice versa and have it act as I'd expect? | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Fiendish
USA (2,537 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #1 on Sat 30 Mar 2019 02:27 PM (UTC) |
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|
Quote:
I'm just trying to figure out if the variables in a plugin and my script file, or even the command line, are all in the same script space
They aren't.
Quote:
Can I do...
You can try it and find out. |
https://github.com/fiendish/aardwolfclientpackage | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,158 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #2 on Sun 31 Mar 2019 06:43 AM (UTC) |
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| Since plugins can be written in different languages (eg. Lua, Python, VBscript) it would be impossible for them to share the same variables.
Also the main world has its own script space, as Fiendish said. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Kevnuke
USA (145 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #3 on Sun 31 Mar 2019 08:32 AM (UTC) |
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| | Well then my next question is, how do I pass values or arrays between them, then? | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,158 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
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| Reply #4 on Sun 31 Mar 2019 08:42 AM (UTC) Amended on Sun 31 Mar 2019 08:43 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon
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| Message
| You can use CallPlugin:
Or you can retrieve client variables (not script variables) using GetPluginVariable:
CallPlugin is more interactive, you actively call a function in another plugin, passing a value (or multiple values). GetPluginVariable lets you retrieve a variable from another plugin, assuming you realize you need to do that.
You can also "Execute" an alias, which another plugin can pick up. eg.
Execute "somerandomstring 666"
So then you make an alias in the target plugin which matches "somerandomstring *" and the number 666 then gets passed to that plugin. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,158 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #5 on Sun 31 Mar 2019 08:47 AM (UTC) |
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| | You could send tables by serializing them into a string. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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