problems with variable-assigned ships...

[Switeck]

Yes, there was a naming discontinuity between:
worldScripts['nullgates'].nullgate
and
this.name = "NullGate";

So I renamed them both to just use "nullgate", and that clears up most of my confusion.

Seems you can't set or check variables in nonexistent worldScripts.

Btw, what is the difference between this:
worldScripts['nullgate'].nullgate
and this:
worldScripts["nullgate"].nullgate
...if any.

[Capt. Murphy]

worldScripts['nullgate'].nullgate

Invalid syntax - you are looking for string value which is by definition enclosed in "string"

edit - fair enough learn something new and all of that....

worldScripts["nullgate"].nullgate

Valid syntax.

[cim]

worldScripts['nullgate'].nullgate

Invalid syntax - you are looking for string value which is by definition enclosed in "string"

'string' (in single quotes) also works for defining string values in Javascript. So that should work too.

[Thargoid]

Indeed, the two are equivalent.

You could also use worldScripts.nullgate.nullgate where the first nullgate is the script name and the second is the function name within it. That method does have the disadvantage though that it can't cope with spaces in the script name.

[Eric Walch]

Btw, what is the difference between this:
worldScripts['nullgate'].nullgate
and this:
worldScripts["nullgate"].nullgate
...if any.

It's the same, but you can also have:
worldScripts["nullgate's"].nullgate
but not:
worldScripts['nullgate's'].nullgate

So a ' inside a string of double quotes is accepted as part of the string and not as starting/ending point of a string.

[Switeck]

Which is probably also why this works:
log(this.name,"worldScripts['nullgate'].nullgate is not null!");
...but this does not:
log(this.name,"worldScripts["nullgate"].nullgate is not null!");

[Capt. Murphy]

Which is probably also why this works:
log(this.name,"worldScripts['nullgate'].nullgate is not null!");
...but this does not:
log(this.name,"worldScripts["nullgate"].nullgate is not null!");

Notepad++ should give you a clue when this is going to be a problem. When editing a recognised JS script it automatically greys out the text that is part of a recognised string...

log(this.name,"worldScripts['nullgate'].nullgate is not null!")
log(this.name,"worldScripts["nullgate"].nullgate is not null!")