Gearswap Help Thread!

[Byrthnoth]

sets.WS = {}
sets.WS.Exenterator = {}
sets.WS.Exenterator[1] = { ... stuff ... }
sets.WS.Exenterator[2] = { ... stuff ... }

You can't assign values to a table until you've declared that table. So, in english:

sets.WS (key string "WS" inside the sets table) = new empty table
sets.WS.Exenterator (key string "Exenterator" inside the sets.WS table) = new empty table
sets.WS.Exenterator[1] (key numerical 1 inside the Exenterator table) = new table with stuff in it
sets.WS.Exenterator[2] (key numerical 2 inside the Exenterator table) = new table with stuff in it

It could all be condensed into one declaration to avoid empty table declarations, but it's harder to read imop:

sets.WS = { Exenterator = { [1] = new table with stuff in it, [2] = new table with stuff in it } }

[TSFFXI]

Ok, that makes sense. Thanks!

Edit: Er, well, maybe it does. I went through my Lua console printing the various tables at different points in the script.

sets.WS = {}

At this point Lua knows that sets is a table (printing sets will give some random table identifier like 0x113c78), and WS is simply a string serving as a key to which there is no value assigned.

sets.WS.Exenterator = {}

Now sets.WS is a table (printing confirms) and Exenterator is simply a string serving as a key.

sets.WS.Exenterator[1] = stuff
sets.WS.Exenterator[2] = stuff

Now sets.WS.Exenterator is a table with two key/value pairs. (1 and 2 are keys, stuff and stuff are values). Exenterator is still a string serving as a key in the sets.WS table (printing Exenterator doesn't give a table identifier) with no associated value.

But if I look at this

sets.WS = { Exenterator = { [1] = new table with stuff in it, [2] = new table with stuff in it }}

it looks like sets is a table with key WS (still a string) and value Exenterator. Exenterator is a table with keys 1 and 2, and values new table with stuff in it, new table with stuff in it.

Exenterator can't simultaneously be a string and a table, though.

[Martel]

Was Augment handling for delve gear(Mikinaak) ever worked out? I'm not sure if I'm doing this wrong, or it just doesn't work for those.

[Byrthnoth]

Was Augment handling for delve gear(Mikinaak) ever worked out? I'm not sure if I'm doing this wrong, or it just doesn't work for those.

I worked out the system and implemented it, but didn't have any duplicate pieces of armor to test with so I couldn't really debug it. I opened an issue and will probably get to it . . . at some point.

[Martel]

Well, I have r15 dex and str mikinaak greaves if there's anything you'd like me to test for you.

[Orestes]

Hey guys, probably something I've overlooked, but how do you get verbose output to log files for gearswap? The instructions mention logging is enabled by default near the top of gearswap, but I don't have any logs being created. I'm assuming that is rererring to gearswap.lua, which has some mention of debugging being on/off, depending on whether or not a "bootstrap.lua" exists. (it does not)

Just having some trouble finding information.

Thanks!

[Byrthnoth]

That's actually a debugging option (for me) that I leave in there because I'm too lazy to delete it each time. My logging shouldn't really be anything that you want to see. It's going to mostly be incredibly spammy.

To answer your question, you enable it by making a file named bootstrap.lua and dropping it into your data folder. Again, though, it's not a useful option for users. Heck, I haven't even used it myself to debug stuff in a few versions.

[TSFFXI]

Is there a command for changing the value of variables directly from the chat line?

[Byrthnoth]

No, use self command.

[TSFFXI]

Thanks, I didn't want to make a command for it if there already was one. I guess you could do something like this to mimic spellcast's "sc set variable value" command.

function self_command(command)

   if string.find(command, "set ") == 1 then

      splitCommand = {}

      _ = 1

      for i in string.gmatch (command, "%S+") do
         splitCommand[_]= i
         _ = _ +1
      end

   if string.find(command, "first_var") == 5 then first_var = splitCommand[3]
   elseif string.find(command, "second_var") then second_var = splitCommand[3] end
   ...

   end
end

[Byrthnoth]

Or something like:

function self_command(command)
    if command:sub(1,4) == 'set ' then
        split_command = string.split(command,' ')
        _G[split_command[2]] = tonumber(split_command[3]) or split_command[3]
    end
end

[TSFFXI]

Oh, cool. That's way better. >.<

I looked all over on the Reference Manual and didn't see the string.split() function.

[Byrthnoth]

string.split is a function from stringhelper, Arcon's string manipulation library.

[Multiabuse]

Having trouble getting gs to recognize any of the newest gear (from Feb 2014 patch). Things like reforged relic/+1, Skirmish +1 gear, and Skirmish +2 weapons are simply ignored.

Trying to investigate, I didn't find any of these items in the windower resources file... would adding them fix this or is that totally irrelevant? If they are needed, how would one manually add the items (item IDs etc) to resources? I think gearswap amazing, but I have no clue what I'm doing.

To workaround, I've put a lot of the items in macros but that is far from ideal.

(To give you an idea of my understanding of gearswap: I followed "Gearswap for Dummies" and applied it to my WHM. For now, most of it is beyond me but the file does work (yay) . . .minus the new items).

[Byrthnoth]

It sounds like your resources aren't updating for whatever reason. Try doing //updateresources. If that doesn't work . . . I don't know, post back.

[arshesney]

Using mote scripts, as blm/sch can't cast Sleepga 2/Sleepga, what could the issue be?

[Multiabuse]

It sounds like your resources aren't updating for whatever reason. Try doing //updateresources. If that doesn't work . . . I don't know, post back.

Wonder why they aren't updating automatically. . . in any case, thanks. Several files updated and I imagine things will work fine now.

[Haborym]

I keep getting the error: "attempt to call global 'ear1' (a nil value)."

Any help with this?

[Martel]

Looks like its reading ear1 as a variable, rather than an equip slot. And ear1 isn't set to anything, so it returns nil. Kinda hard to say what's actually causing that without seeing the file though.

[Byrthnoth]

It means that you have ear1() somewhere.