Set getPDL properties from message window?

[Andrew Morton]

W2000, D8.5.1

I have script which has an on getPropertyDescriptionList handler to set three
properties. I can see what they are set to in the message window like this:-

put sprite(19).scriptList[2][2]
-- "[#nHoriz: 3, #nVert: 3, #tFactor: 0.8800]"

However, I don't seem to be able to set those properties:-

sprite(19).scriptList[2][2]="[#nHoriz: 3, #nVert: 3, #tFactor: 0.7000]"

does nothing (with or without the quotes, while playing or stopped) even though
it doesn't give an error.
Although I'll have changed them in the property inspector in a few minutes from
now, is it possible to set them from the message window?

Andrew Morton

[Christoffer Enedahl]

From scriptList docs: This property may only be set by using
setScriptList().
If you set all scripts on the sprite this might be doable.
sprite(19).setScriptList( [ [script, props] , [scriptMember, [#nHoriz: 3,
#nVert: 3, #tFactor: 0.8800] ] ] )

/Christoffer

"Andrew Morton" <akm@in-press.co.uk.invalid> skrev i meddelandet
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> W2000, D8.5.1
>
> I have script which has an on getPropertyDescriptionList handler to set

three

> properties. I can see what they are set to in the message window like

this:-

>
> put sprite(19).scriptList[2][2]
> -- "[#nHoriz: 3, #nVert: 3, #tFactor: 0.8800]"
>
> However, I don't seem to be able to set those properties:-
>
> sprite(19).scriptList[2][2]="[#nHoriz: 3, #nVert: 3, #tFactor: 0.7000]"
>
> does nothing (with or without the quotes, while playing or stopped) even

though

> it doesn't give an error.
> Although I'll have changed them in the property inspector in a few minutes

from

> now, is it possible to set them from the message window?
>
> Andrew Morton
>

[Andrew Morton]

> From scriptList docs:

D'oh!

> If you set all scripts on the sprite this might be doable.
> sprite(19).setScriptList( [ [script, props] , [scriptMember, [#nHoriz: 3,
> #nVert: 3, #tFactor: 0.8800] ] ] )

Not my idea of fun :-)

Cheers,

Andrew

[Luke]

> If you set all scripts on the sprite this might be doable.

> > sprite(19).setScriptList( [ [script, props] , [scriptMember, [#nHoriz:

3,

> > #nVert: 3, #tFactor: 0.8800] ] ] )

>
> Not my idea of fun :-)

Especially when you realise these 'lists' need to be strings and the getPDL
is just storing a list as a string and then doing a value() on the string to
convert it back to a list when it goes and assigns the specified values to
their properties (so watch out for quoted characters, return characters,
VOIDs, Nulls, Nans and all the other types that fall over in the
'value<->string' conversion)

:)

[Robert Tweed]

"Andrew Morton" <akm@in-press.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
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>
> sprite(19).scriptList[2][2]="[#nHoriz: 3, #nVert: 3, #tFactor: 0.7000]"

How about:

sprite(19).scriptInstanceList[2].nHoriz = 3
sprite(19).scriptInstanceList[2].nVert = 3
sprite(19).scriptInstanceList[2].tFactor = 0.7

- Robert

[Robert Tweed]

"Robert Tweed" <robert@killingmoon.com> wrote in message
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>
> sprite(19).scriptInstanceList[2].nHoriz = 3
> sprite(19).scriptInstanceList[2].nVert = 3
> sprite(19).scriptInstanceList[2].tFactor = 0.7

Actually, I think I may have misunderstood your problem - if so, just ignore
me :)

- Robert

[Andrew Morton]

I had ~15 of them which needed changing and it would have been easier to step to
the appropriate frames and re-execute the same single instruction in the message
window. Not enough of them to make it worth doing programmatically. Done by hand
now, anyway.
Incidentally, I noticed that in the property inspector the range slider is not
quite wide enough to show the last decimal place. Has that bug been fixed in MX,
or maybe it only shows up on my W2000SP4 GFX5200 DirectX9.0b?

Andrew