Solved General programming question

[Wiw3K]

Hello, last time on forum i was long time ago. Since that i have learnt some C++/C# and now after i returned i was like ok easy lets code some scripts... but after a while few questions came up.

How do you get those functions for lua scripting so easly, how you know what it returns and what methods example player class have is there any special editor with intellisence or something ?

 

[Evil Hero]

Once you get used to the patterns they resemble it's pretty easy to guess the functions and it's parameter(s)
There are also a few good documentations about it around here, the one in my scripting thread is outdated but covers most of the usefull functions http://otland.net/threads/scripting-guide.74030/#post-758231
If you have further questions feel free to ask

 

[Wiw3K]

I found Your Tutorial, it gave me a bit of knowledge but still i miss any info about what function returns and what method, parameters it has, so if there is none special editors for Lua OTS programming then i have to learn by reading other's scripts.

 

[Evil Hero]

well most things go by logic I'd say
example:

isPlayer(cid) <-- returns either true or false

Here it is a bit more tricky, if I didn't have any knowledge about the functions.

getPlayerWeaponType(cid) <-- this could return either string ex: "sword" or a number value ex: 1, by logical reasoning

But yea, checking other peoples scripts is the best way, there you can learn a lot of things and see how the patterns work.

Another good and easy way to test the returnvalue of a function is to use the print function
example:

print(getCreatureHealth(cid))

You can do that with every function aslong as you use it in the right way and see the outcome.

 

[Wiw3K]

Thanks for helping me but i found it!
Thing i was looking for is a file called "LUA_FUNCTIONS" in "doc" directory of my server.
Thanks again.