renaming the built-in mission scripts

[Commander McLane]

I discovered that JS has a problem with recognizing the hyphen (-) in script names. It just doesn't.

As a result of this it is not possible to interact with any world scripts that contain a hyphen in their name, for instance if you want to check for their existence with

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if(worldScripts.that-particular-script)
{
     do stuff
}

or something else. However

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if(worldScripts.that_particular_script)
{
     do stuff
}

or

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if(worldScripts.thatParticularScript)
{
     do stuff
}

works fine.

This concerns all scripts which have a hyphen in their name property, the most outstanding examples of which are the built-in missions (oolite-cloaking-device, oolite-constrictor-hunt, oolite-nova, oolite-thargoid-plans and oolite-trumbles). So I suggest to rename them, in order not to set a bad example for OXPers, who might just copy what they find in the game.

[Eric Walch]

I discovered that JS has a problem with recognizing the hyphen (-) in script names. It just doesn't.

As a result of this it is not possible to interact with any world scripts that contain a hyphen in their name, for instance if you want to check for their existence with

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if(worldScripts.that-particular-script)
{
     do stuff
}

In those instances you need to use:

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if(worldScripts["that-particular-script"])
{
     do stuff
}

Without the point and the text between quotes. That way you can use any text including space symbols.

[Commander McLane]

Ah! Good to know.