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Quote from: Putnam on June 13, 2013, 09:25:14 pm

dfhack.getline()?

Now I get an error about an "attempt to call field 'getline' (a nil value)".

EDIT:
An online lua reference suggests io.read(). This initially appears to work, but the script causes df to become unresponsive and frozen until you provide input, so I can't move the cursor.

That is wrong way to do anyway. I was thinking about making a series of overlays for e.g. unit selection (including multiple, from list, by some filter), item selection, generic cursor, etc...
They would be like gui.dialogs. this https://github.com/warmist/OpusArcania/blob/master/buildings.lua actually uses an overlay to show mana in world and has movable cursor. movie how it looks

remind me to wake up tomorrow and make this more coherent:

i'm in a bit of a bind because I just remembered that Fortbent still uses separate creatures for all of the citizens (when they get a COMBATHARDNESS of 100) and I haven't tested that far yet but Sparking shows me that that probably means that they'll be "too injured" to work but they can still be ordered around militarily. The problem is that I first included DFHack in Fortbent for friendship for this situation but friendship is no longer in fortbent but fortbent relies on the latest version of DFHack for other things and I for the life of me can't figure out friendship so...

It's quite easy to use friendship, but only on windows and only from lua (due to me not getting around to make gui and allow reconfiguration - now it needs a full df restart to change what species are in the friendship list). This should work (use it in save specific script file - "raw/init.lua" - for best effect):
plug=require"plugins.dfusion.friendship"
plug.Friendship:install{"DWARF","ELF","GOBLIN"}
same for embark
plug=require"plugins.dfusion.embark"
plug.Embark:install{{"DWARF",0},{"ELF",0},{"GOBLIN",1},{"DWARF",1},{"DWARF",1},{"DWARF",1},{"GOBLIN",1}}

EDIT: just noticed that there is a bug that ignores the first entry in Friendship, so to workaround:
plug=require"plugins.dfusion.friendship"
plug.Friendship:install{"DWARF","ELF","GOBLIN","DWARF"}


@warmist: So dfhack would slap jobs on them, instead of just having them choose themselves, acording to their skills?

Yes. It would do that. Adding skill checks is possible, but this mimics more of the "vanilla" df behaviour. Meaning that any dwarf will do any job (if it's enabled). Feel free to improve though (like adding check for enabled jobs).

Another random idea: make gui scriptlets for selecting units, items, buildings, etc... and then sort-of standartize scripts to accept parameters from them. Sort of like you have a script that makes a creature immortal then using gui would be as simple as gui.dialogs.unitSelect(immortal) (ofc it will have more parameters, like what is acceptable what is not...), also some chaining to allow selecting two units (e.g. makes one unit follow/ride the other), maybe a unit and a few items?

The script itself could accept some generic parameter pack (e.g. selected={units={unit1,unit2,...}, items={item1,item2,...}, syndromes={},...} and then the rest parameters.
This way it would be more modular, and gui friendly.

Quote from: scriver on May 16, 2013, 04:20:02 am

Quote from: Warmist on May 13, 2013, 02:22:24 pm

or use this: https://github.com/jjyg/dfhack/blob/master/scripts/startdwarf.rb
(paste it into startdwarf.rb in scripts dir)

Thanks, I'll try that.

Got it working fine, so thanks again. Is there ant particular reason this isn't already in the... Program, or whatever you call it? And would anyone mind if I added this information to the wiki page so more people can see it?

It's in the next release of it (i think).

Quote from: Bludragon on May 03, 2013, 12:47:15 am

I would like to see a way to edit the number of dwarves you can have on embark, please

The weird thing is, dfusion has a script that should do this... it just isn't exposed, as far as I can tell.

It got lost during the rewriting. There will be a ruby script that does this in the next release.

Not sure why this is but maybe it helps someone else.

Recently someone came back into the dfhack irc channel with an odd problem. Just can't mine. Sure before he had a messed up hand and that probably got in the way of things checking out properly. This time fresh healthy adventurer with a pick in each hand. Still couldn't mine.

having had some very minor success with lua I decided to try looking at his problem... and the Predicate check in advfort specifically. But not being an adventurer person I checked a random actually mining miner in fortmode first.

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:lua unit=dfhack.gui.getSelectedUnit() print(dfhack.TranslateName(unit.name,true)) for k,v in pairs(unit.inventory) do print(k,v.mode) if df.item_weaponst:is_instance(v.item) then if v.item.subtype.skill_melee==df.job_skill.MINING then if unit.body.weapon_bp==v.body_part_id print("yay") end end end end


Ending up with that bit of commandline above. All was golden. So having puzzled out all the pieces to make the above line I took the plunge (maybe my third adventurer ever) gave myself some mining skill... and via the console a pick. Puzzled out making sure it was equipped, and tried the script. No "yay". Curious I tried mining a wall anyway. Nope hated my adventurers limbs -or something as that was the part that refused to "yay" when rebuilt from scratch.

so I go to line 195 and I change it to:

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if v.item.subtype.skill_melee==item_skill then --and args.unit.body.weapon_bp==v.body_part_id then


and then escape out the the advfort gui before I hit save in UltraEdit. Restarting the gui I found chopping trees, and mining now worked.

I mean it's still doing a skillcheck, and still requiring it equipped to FIND it to check the skill so... it should be helpful... *ramble ramble ramble* In any event... Surely the adventuremode body isn't that different? I hope this helps narrow down any issues or is helpful in any way.

Hmm that is strange. That check is for item to be equipped in your weapon hand (or body part). Because if you equip a shield in your weapon hand and pick in the other one than mining/cutting trees does not work and DF says nothing. Anyway at least that is what it's supposed to do...

ptw