Perhaps I should have mentioned that, my mistake :P Anyway, with the quine that I defined here, you can omit an argument and have it behave like the quine that is defined in stdlib.cfg (echoing its own definition) or you can add an argument to have it echo the definition of the command you use it on.

I'm going to link you to the same thing that I have linked RaZgRiZ to, since I know that the quine function came from him: Quine.
The stdlib.cfg quine is a quine. Your/Raz's quine is not a quine.

srbs

Details, details..

Yes of course :) They're marked as public domain.

hmm yea good points, ill try to address them in the near future.

?: ? cond A B -- If cond is true, return A; otherwise return B (e.g. (? (= 1 1) "yes" "no") would return "yes")

if: if cond true false -- Executes A if cond is true, otherwise it executes B (e.g. /if (= 3 5) [result "what?"] [result "nope"])

OH, NICE !!! It's an internal command or a script function ???

But you have not answered, how do you to know all this ??? What documentation do you have about the scripts and where I can find it ???
And about the "abs" function also...

I have a lot of problem with the alias and arguments returns. I have also not yet understood what is exactly the "@"...
An example :
alias lang setlang
setlang = [ if (> $numargs 0) [ result (xxxfunction @arg1) ] ]

Here, the "lang" alias not work ! If I write "/lang 2" the argument isn't transfered to the "xxxfunction" !!! I don't understand a lot of things and I tear out the few hairs I have left on my head...

For example, the difference between :
a = [ makethat ; result this ]
and
a = ( dothis ; result that )
In this case, what it is, how use it and what about $args ???

How creat a "read only" var, like a "property" but usable like a var (with $name) ???

I have so many question...

Internal command it is.

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Most of what we know, we learned ourselves. Only the most basic stuff lies in the documentation, and the few advanced functions explained in there are disregarded by newbies anyway.

Regarding the '@', think of square brackets as levels. Example: [level_1 [level_2 [level_3]]]
The '@' can be used to retrieve the value of a variable from a previous level. Most of the time it's not necessary to use it, since a variable's value remains consistent throughout, but for the few cases it doesn't, '@' is necessary.

Take for example a sleeping loop. [loop i 10 [sleep (* $i 200) [say @i]]]
The loop itself is the first level. The sleep is the second level and 'say' is the third level. Due to the sleep, the value of 'i' is inconsistent throughout the whole example. The value of 'i' in the first level is likely a stable integer. The loop changes that, so the value of 'i' on the second level is define by the loop itself. However, in the third level, 'i' is once more stable, and so using $i wouldn't reflect the value the loop is forcing 'i' to be, and that's where '@' comes to use.

However, '@' is a bit quirky and may cause problems in a script if used where it is not really needed. 'if' operators should for no reason require variables of subsequent levels to use '@' unless a loop or sleep, or any other command that may offset things takes place. I call value inconsistency "offset", just to be clear. :P

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Square brackets are meant for executing commands, while round brackets practically process their content before the rest of the commands take place. Do not be mistaken however, square brackets are also containers, and may be used to act as a list, whether for an array of strings or a single value, it's all valid. A few examples:

clampval = [max $arg2 (min $arg3 $arg1)]

To use it, you'd have to do (clampval VARIABLE MIN MAX). if you did $clampval you'd just get a result of the contents, which isn't what you want.

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Another sample function for the round brackets now:

client_auth = (? (= (&& (isconnected) (hasauthkey))) "^f4")

To use it, you'd simply do $client_auth, since it's MADE to process the given data before hand, so you just grab the value it "contains". This does not imply that the function aliases itself to a value. It merely acts as a "relay" to the code it is aliased to.

Ok, i thanks you for your answer. I think I begin to understand some of my mistakes... Indeed, I discovered that the variable arguments ($ argX) are global !!! It is true that the reactions of the "@" are, for me, very strange sometimes !

But now, I would like someone to explain how to do that without crashing Sauer :
i = 1 ; while [ (< $i 10) ] [ sleep 10 [ i = (+ @i 1) ; echo @i ] ]
I test it with $, @ and @@, with "sleep 10 ( ... )" but, it crash all time and I dont really understand why if $i is global and sleep is a function.
I try also to put the decrementation of "i" in a global function but no...

I still have a question that has nothing to do with the subject : who develops RedEclipse now and do you think that I can import into Sauer theirs textures without them upset ???

Red Eclipse uses the same set up for textures as Sauerbraten does. It even uses the same stdshader.cfg (as I noticed).
If you want to import a map from Sauerbraten to Red Eclipse, just rename the ".ogz" format into ".mpz" (I'm not sure but it's recommended to try this on a map of the trooper- or justice-edition).

Good news ^^

But now I fear that my super giant package takes even further behind ! I hope to find time to finish it and publish it one day, but nothing is less sure! In fact, I currently looking for a sponsor to support it (seriously ! I'm maybe a bit crazy, but who does not try, have nothing !). I would like to "merge" all the mods and forks in a "Ultimate" version of CubeEngine2...

The sleep is offsetting the value of 'i' and thus it always remains the same in the level of 'while'. We all know that a 'while' function that never ends tends to crash the game.

There are things I really do not understand in the internal functioning of this scripting language !

What would you like to know? I can lend some help, but there are things that I do not know.

"Indeed, I discovered that the variable arguments ($ argX)"
Here are two main concepts of cubescript:
1) EVERYTHING is global.
2) EVERYTHING is a string.

The reason your code crashes is because there is only 1 script thread, everything is sequential and every stored sleep body must wait for all previously scheduled scripts to execute. So in your while loop, those sleeps will not execute until the while is finished (which is never, since i doesn't change in the body outside of the sleeps)

The reason sleep 10 (...) doesn't work is because of the @, the @ will be taken at the time of parsing the while loop and it's arguments @ it will always be 1. So therefore, the body of the while loop would be: [ sleep 10 (i = (+ 1 1); echo 1) ] at all times, and the while loop will never end because i will always be 2 (< 10).

Hope this helps,
srbs

Edit: Fixed truncated post: Thanks FrenchBadPing, forgot about that.

I think your post was truncated (you must use & lt; for the sign "lower" and & gt; for the sign "greater" in html ... small default of the Quadro parser).

So, how should we do, since "i" is global, to transmit its value to the sleep function at the good time ??? We must creat a temporary var or we can be that differently ???

i = 0 ; while [ (< $i 10) ] [ sleep 1000 [ echo $i ] ; i = (+ $i 1) ]
done : 10 10 10 10...

The only way I found is :
myfunc = [ vara = $arg1 ; sleep 1000 [ echo @vara ] ]
i = 0 ; while [ (< $i 10) ] [ myfunc $i ; i = (+ $i 1) ]

I really haven't usually to complicate as many my life for do some so basic things, it's amazing !!!

There really isn't any sense in complicating your life unless you have to actually, so why bother doing something like this? Start simple, some GUI perhaps, buttons and such. You can move on to the more complex stuff by reading what other scripts have been written.

Just do what you did in myfunc (with the @):
i = 0; while [ < $i 10 ] [ sleep 1000 [ echo @i ]; i = (+ $i 1) ]

Although if you only want to loop from 0->10 use:
loop i 10 [ sleep 1000 [ echo @i ] ]
Since it will automatically increment i.

srbs

Hum... good ! I think I begin to understand :))
TY

The swap value function I gave you should have been copied as is. It MUST NOT have the spaces you added. This is because cubescript will keep the spaces when swapping the values.

If you do:

t = 5; y = 6;
swapvalues t y


you will have these value pairs:
"t" = "5"
"y" = "6"
" t " = " 6 "
" y " = " 5 "

You can test this by doing:

echo (format "t's: %1 ^"%2^" $t (getalias " t "))
echo (format "y's: %1 ^"%2^" $y (getalias " y "))


Please fix quickly.
srbs

Couple more:

On your 'rnds' you use (rnd 25) remember that is 0->24, you'll never hit that z. Also, why not use substr? :P

I'm not sure (and I highly doubt it) if the extra spaces in the 'for' command would have any issues as stated above. But if the for loops 100 times, youll have 200 extra spaces in the args. xD

srbs

I've used something similar to this for another project, but I tend to stick to the same programming model that all of the other functions are in.
However, if you were curious, mine would be "(!=f $arg1 (+ $arg1))" instead of "(!=f (modf $arg1 1))"

One other thing to note: abs & absf are already built-in functions in SVN.

Oh yeah, well done. This proves that one can always do more effective ;-)

"built-in"... hardcoded or scripted, because, here, "absf" is useless no !?

What other great functions like that are new in SVN ?????

What about getting it :P?

A link to what has been changed is just right here. I notify, this is NOT the history change log which is on the main website of Sauerbraten.

Oh, great, ty :) I'll go study that carefully...

that is because the sauerbraten.org history file is going to be update with the svn one upon release.

Not impressed. I've already made a clock function, similar to yours but way smaller, that is also portable. Doesn't have to be inside a GUI to work.

Your crazy text is just a normal guitext which spazzes with colors in a speed too great you to even realize what is happening. A very lazy form of your 'funtext' if you ask me.

Your funtext is like an extended version of my blink command that is used to input different colors and have them cycle at user given intervals, only way more random and with no way to define its looping speed.

All this java must have given you a headache, this is not good. =P

These additions should be perceived as instructional devices intended to edify the average cubescript enthusiast, as opposed to the more "practical" implementations that you seem to be expecting. In other words, I'm trying, through the additions on which you commented, to demonstrate just how a certain aspect of cubescript can be employed; I leave it to the user to expand upon this to the extent of their liking, similar to what you are currently doing, according to your comment.

Instructional or not, i expected better than that.
The instructions i'm used to are comments, maybe that's why.

Also, get on irc, what are you doing here? =P