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CrayZXP
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 19:40
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How exactly does a script work? How is one loaded in DBP? Does anyone have any small examples? I've used the search option BTW.
I'm confused... please help...

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dark donkey
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 20:04
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Say i have two files one is empty and one has the fuction:

Print "Example"

And i call that fuction EXAMPLE()

Now in the empty one write
#Include "Were ever the other file is"

EXAMPLE()

now you will see the program is using the fuction from the other code file.

Hope this helped
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CrayZXP
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 20:17 Edited at: 4th Sep 2007 20:18
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Just saw an example that explains what I'm talking about.


Does this involve a lot of "READ" commands?

Edit:
BTW it's an external file...

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dark donkey
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 20:36
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I dont realy get you again. I think you mean how do i load a variable into my program. Im no expert with this bit i can tell you this:

Using open to write and open to read you can open a file to write or to open. I think tehre is another comand to get a variable out of the comand but im not sure.
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 22:54
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That looks like Lua. It's not made in DBP, so you dont have to worry about how it works really. But basically, it involves reading it all line by line, splitting it up into little chunks, called "tokens", that being compiled to very simplified code called "bytecode", and that code being interpreted by a "virtual machine".

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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 23:30
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Should I get Unity? I'm guessing that I could run my programs faster with it.

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Get Unity, or Barnski's, which is free. Either-or.

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