How is it possible to load a saved variation into an include when the included file is used??
Is it possible to do this?
I have tried the normal line "loadVar $i"

You can either pass the variable using:



Or you can use



The latter will be slower tho, as savevar is passed thru a file.

Thanks for that....cheers

Can't get it to work
Test Script:
# Test
#setVar $include_filename~variable "blah"
#gosub :include_filename~routine
#echo $include_filename~return_variable

:var
setVar $var 100
saveVar $var

setVar $include_Test~$vari $var
gosub :Test~routine
echo $include_Test~return_$vari
:back
echo "**" & " Back at Test " & $var "**"
halt

include "include\Test"

Include
#Test Include
:routine
echo $include_Test~return_$vari
#trying the saved one as well
echo $include_Test~return_$var
:back
Echo "**" & " Loaded Variation vari " & $vari & " " & $var & "**"
return

If you're including "Test" then it's not going not be $include_Test~vari but rather $test~vari

Notice that there's no $ after the ~, and how the name of the first part, before the ~, is the name of the include file. Also you need to include "include\test.ts" ie: have .ts after the name, too.

When referencing it from within the include, it'll be treated as the normally referenced variable, $vari. You won't have a return_var unless you set one.

So in the include called test.ts all you need to do is echo $vari

Thanks. I got it to work.....thanks for your patience and clear explanation....

Glad you got it working... here is another small example.

Say you have an include file called myincludes.ts, and in this include you have a routine called :double that takes an input $input, doubles it, and returns it as $output... then it would look something like this:
And now the include routine would look like this:

Does that make it clearer how to pass the variable to the include and run the routine in the include?

+EP+

Thanks for the examples EP and Singularity. It is clearer now. Just takes a bit to get my head around some of this programming but I do enjoy playing around with scripts and them having the joy of getting them to work.....sometimes BTW. I am playing around with an old Shipcap script of mine. Worked fine to a point. I am working on getting a second wave of figs if the first was unsucessfull.
I get an EOF when it reads the ship files for the second time so I am playing around with an include to divorce the second reading from the first........makes cense to me lol

Ah yes.

I pre-cache all of that into an array during load, personally.

For wave count, I assume 0 shields (correcting it if the combat scanner says otherwise) and just attack based on the odds and figcount off a sector scan. After the first wave, I rescan the sector, recalculate and attack again based on the new numbers.

It's a little slower that way (no way to fix that w/o a combat scanner tho), but it will keep firing waves until the ship is captured or I'm out of figs. Add in a way to not attack certain shiptypes (like gbonus stuff) and it works pretty well. Basically it's just a loop.

When I do the second scan it reads the ship file and comes up with "EOF Ship type not found" (I echo that message) even if the ship type var has been zeroed.. I was going to use an include to do a re-cap routine. I will have a look at an array.....don't understand them but I will study them and give it a go

You should consider using the ReadToarray command. If the name of your Ship-file is: ships.txt. let's pretend it has 3 Lines of text in it: Enterra; Ascian Boat; Red Rum.


$LIST is an array of ROWS (one Row for each Line of Text in the Soruce File), each continaing one line form the Text File: Ships.txt.


You should test for the file's existence before using ReadToArray, attempting to load a non-existent file will break your Script.