How do I access M()MBot variables from another script?

saveVar to save the variable in the .cfg file in twxproxy\data

loadVar to load the variable in the .cfg file in twxproxy\data

$PLANET is a M()MBOT Variable. I don't seem to be able to access it with loadVar.

I haven't done any TWX scripting in a LONG time, but I'm pretty sure if you want to use variables from another script, you'd have to include the source script into your own script and reference them that way.

I don't know anything about mombot either - so that's all I can help with.

saveVar $Planet

loadVar $Planet

saveVar $Planet

loadVar $Planet

echo "-" $Planet "-"

results:

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This is information I can not obtain, unless I had a script running when you landed on a planet. Since M()MBOT is always running, it maintains this information and stores it in the $Planet variable.

You'd have to modify mombot's source code to run the saveVar command, then run loadVar from your script.

It turns out that M()MBOT is already saving the variable with saveVar. I have discovered that I can access it from the main file, but not from a Gosub inside an included file where I need it. So, in the main file:

loadVar $Planet
setVar $MyPlanet $Planet

...and then I can access $MyPlanet in the included gosub.

What actually happens is that the include file gets slapped into your main script when it is compiled, and all the names for variables and labels that were inside the include file get transformed to avoid collisions with other variables and labels.

So when you have in your include file, and say you reference that include file from your main script using , then becomes

Astro hit it on the head, you have to reference the script that has the variable you want to save and have actually saved it prior to loading it. If memory serves you can reference the variable specifically and individually if needed.

Now that I look at it again, I don't see how the above works any better, and if it does work it means there's something I'm not understanding and I'd like to see the code. If you try to reference $MyPlanet, which is defined in the main script, from an included file, then when the main script is compiled, the included file gets pasted into the main script, and any $MyPlanet used in the included file becomes $includeFileName~MyPlanet.

The following should work.

in bot:


In your script's main file:


in scripts/includeFileName.ts:

I haven't carefully read this thread, so forgive me if this post is off-topic. I wanted to add that an include can reference a variable in the calling script. I believe the syntax is $~callingscriptvariable
So if the main script has a variable $version, I believe an include can reference $~version.

Oh shoot that's useful! I did not know that, thanks EP!

Thanks, That all makes sense now...