Xdata file format - Revision history

Fidcal: /* Control Codes */

2008-06-20T10:48:16Z

Control Codes

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	* ^0 ~~black~~		* ^0 default
	* ^1 bright red		* ^1 bright red
	* ^2 bright green		* ^2 bright green

Fidcal: /* Control Codes */

2008-03-16T07:28:41Z

Control Codes

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	==Control Codes==		==Control Codes==

	Found precious little on this so far so needs expanding but I found the foreground colour command ineffective. Here are some colour codes that can be put in the text but unfortunately they are all bright so far and terminate at the end of the line as formatted in the game when it defaults back to ~~black~~ thereafter...		Found precious little on this so far so needs expanding but I found the foreground colour command ineffective. Here are some colour codes that can be put in the text but unfortunately they are all bright so far and terminate at the end of the line as formatted in the game when it defaults back to the gui default thereafter...

Fidcal: /* Loading Xdata Files */

2007-11-11T14:36:02Z

Loading Xdata Files

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   $bill.loadExternalData( "people/bill", "personal_info_" );
 will result in "personal_info_name" being set to "Bill" and "personal_info_occupation" being set to "guard".
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Greebo: categorised

2007-06-20T17:49:43Z

categorised

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	$bill.loadExternalData( "people/bill", "personal_info_" );		$bill.loadExternalData( "people/bill", "personal_info_" );
	will result in "personal_info_name" being set to "Bill" and "personal_info_occupation" being set to "guard".		will result in "personal_info_name" being set to "Bill" and "personal_info_occupation" being set to "guard".

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Gildoran at 18:36, 2 December 2006

2006-12-02T18:36:21Z

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	When values are stored using this format, there is an implicit newline at the end of each string.		When values are stored using this format, there is an implicit newline at the end of each string.

	== Inheritance ==		=== Inheritance ===

	It's possible to inherit key/value pairs from other xdata declarations. This is acheived with the import keyword. The simplest syntax is:		It's possible to inherit key/value pairs from other xdata declarations. This is acheived with the import keyword. The simplest syntax is:

Gildoran at 17:42, 2 December 2006

2006-12-02T17:42:43Z

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-Xdata (short for eXternal data) files provide a way for scripts to easily load settings that are stored externally. When readables were being coded, people requested that it be possible to load readable settings from an external file instead of being forced to store all readable information in the entity spawn-arguments. Since readables would need to load an arbitrary list of settings from the file, I figured I might as well make them use a general-purpose format. Xdata files were created as a result.
+Xdata (short for eXternal data) files provide a way for scripts to easily load settings that are stored externally. When readables were being coded, people requested that it be possible to load readable settings from an external file instead of being forced to store all readable information in the entity spawn-arguments. Since readables would need to load an arbitrary list of settings from a file, I figured I might as well make them use a general-purpose format. Xdata declarations were created as a result.
 --[[User:Gildoran|Gildoran]] 09:32, 2 December 2006 (CST)
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Gildoran at 15:32, 2 December 2006

2006-12-02T15:32:29Z

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Xdata (short for eXternal data) files provide a way for scripts to easily load settings that are stored externally. When readables were being coded, people requested that it be possible to load readable settings from an external file instead of being forced to store all readable information in the entity spawn-arguments. Since readables would need to load an arbitrary list of settings from the file, I figured I might as well make them use a general-purpose format. Xdata files were created as a result.

--[[User:Gildoran|Gildoran]] 09:32, 2 December 2006 (CST)

(currently under construction - check back in an hour)