Scripters cove

[Cholmondely]

Have you tried with a non-template ship too? I just checked it myself - entry with "wavefront" is displayed, with template - no.
If this still does not work, maybe something useful is in the logs?

Genius! You fixed it! Thank you...

Minor query: how would I have known that wavefront was the ship data key?

ship

The data key in shipdata.plist of this ship.

ship = "cobra3-trader";

[Massively Locked]

I vaguely remember reading somewhere about some function/method/Jedi-mind-trick that boldly declares that "YOU HAVE A DEV VER OF THIS ADD-ON INSTALLED" (or something to that effect) in the log file (I think it was the log file). If you know what I'm talking about, I'd appreciate if you could point me to it.

[Alnivel]

I vaguely remember reading somewhere about some function/method/Jedi-mind-trick that boldly declares that "YOU HAVE A DEV VER OF THIS ADD-ON INSTALLED" (or something to that effect) in the log file (I think it was the log file). If you know what I'm talking about, I'd appreciate if you could point me to it.

Can it be OXPMessages.plist? Or are you looking for a way with JS?

[Massively Locked]

Bingo- that was exactly it! Thank you!

[Redspear]

Hello. This is likely a simple question for somebody here...

I want to test if the player's scanner is empty or not. i.e. test whether anything else is within that range but WITHOUT using masslock as a check for the same.

player.ship.scannerRange with some sort of distance to nearest object test???

[Alnivel]

Hello. This is likely a simple question for somebody here...

I want to test if the player's scanner is empty or not. i.e. test whether anything else is within that range but WITHOUT using masslock as a check for the same.

player.ship.scannerRange with some sort of distance to nearest object test???

How about system.filteredEntities?

Also, by player.ship.scannerRange, did you mean player.ship.checkScanner? If you need ships closer than the scanner range, the array of ships can be filtered using JS (filter method, or via loop and push ships that too far).

[Redspear]

Also, by player.ship.scannerRange, did you mean player.ship.checkScanner?

Thanks. I'd missed that and so I was looking for a workaround...

Forgive me, I'm not really JavaScript literate, I just know a little slang...
How can I test if nothing is on the scanner?

In English rather than JavaScript, it would be:

Are there any lollipops on the player scanner right now?
If the answer is no then please do the following...

So I'm looking for a very simple true/false test rather than details.
I hope that makes sense.

[Massively Locked]

Are there any lollipops on the player scanner right now?
If the answer is no then please do the following...

So I'm looking for a very simple true/false test rather than details.

Give this a shot:

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var shpsNear = player.ship.checkScanner ()
if (shpsNear.length === 0) {…}

[Reval]

ooh useful! - I believe I'll add that facility to ET. Seeing .length there, one assumes it's an array? So listing out shipsNear in a loop will presumably display all vessels and stations(?) within scanner range?

[Redspear]

Give this a shot:

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var shpsNear = player.ship.checkScanner ()
if (shpsNear.length === 0) {…}

Will do. Thanks.

[Massively Locked]

ooh useful! - I believe I'll add that facility to ET. Seeing .length there, one assumes it's an array? So listing out shipsNear in a loop will presumably display all vessels and stations(?) within scanner range?

Yep to both

[Redspear]

Give this a shot:

It works - you're officially awesome

[Reval]

Question: is it possible to access a variable from another OXP's world-script?

If so, what is the syntax for doing this? (could someone perhaps give me an example?)

[Redspear]

Question: is it possible to access a variable from another OXP's world-script?

If so, what is the syntax for doing this? (could someone perhaps give me an example?)

If you haven't already, check out  Variables in Oolite JavaScripts

Both global and (potentailly) mission variables could be of interest.

[Reval]

Oh many thanks Redspear - I hadn't even noticed that section!