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[mstram]

Is there a way in DfHack 43.05 to list all the Notes (location and contents) from a Dwarf Fortress world ?

I searched through all the script files, and found some "NotesPoints" references that looked like they were just for building the GUI.

[mifki]

Is there a way in DfHack 43.05 to list all the Notes (location and contents) from a Dwarf Fortress world ?

I searched through all the script files, and found some "NotesPoints" references that looked like they were just for building the GUI.

This?

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df.global.ui.waypoints.points

[Quietust]

Be aware that this will only include the Notes left in the context of the current fortress - notes left on the Embark Map aren't yet known to DFHack (I'm in the process of adding them right now).

[mstram]

Is there a way in DfHack 43.05 to list all the Notes (location and contents) from a Dwarf Fortress world ?

I searched through all the script files, and found some "NotesPoints" references that looked like they were just for building the GUI.

This?

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df.global.ui.waypoints.points

Thanks !

That works pasting in to gui\gm-editor.

I'm guessing ? there must be some lua syntax to "pretty print" the structure(s) for "text" output ?


I tried modifying the "position.lua" script:

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print(df.global.ui.waypoints.points[0])
got:

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<vector<ui.T_waypoints.T_points*>[2]: 00000001413565F0>

I'm not fluent in Lua, but it seems ?  <vector> is not a native Lua type ?

[mifki]

I'm not fluent in Lua, but it seems ?  <vector> is not a native Lua type ?

Use printall() instead, or just "~", as in

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~df.global.ui.waypoints.points
vector is a C++ type but you can use it as a Lua table, e.g. iterate with ipairs() and index

[mstram]

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printall(df.global.ui.waypoints.points)
gives :

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0                        = <ui.T_waypoints.T_points: 00000000346E0550>
1                        = <ui.T_waypoints.T_points: 00000000346E0730>

Not quite as "pretty" as I'm hoping for

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print (~df.global.ui.waypoints.points)

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.scripts/p.lua:56: attempt to perform bitwise operation on a user data value (field 'points')

[mstram]

Ok, found the code in gm-editor.lua / function GmEditorUi:pushTarget

Thanks for the hints on what to look for.

[Warmist]

Ok, found the code in gm-editor.lua / function GmEditorUi:pushTarget

Thanks for the hints on what to look for.

Oh wow... I'll give you kudos for that. That file is unreadable :|

[mstram]

Ok, found the code in gm-editor.lua / function GmEditorUi:pushTarget

Thanks for the hints on what to look for.

Oh wow... I'll give you kudos for that. That file is unreadable :|

Heh, trial and errror  .... every now and then a "blind animal finds ...."

I know a tiny bit of Lua, the rest I "google".

While using gm-editor works for producing text output, I still have to interactively "pick" / edit an entry for it to be "dumped" to the console.

There should be a way to just iterate over all the notes in a script and dump them out.  Well that IS, sorta what the interactive editor is doing (one at a time).

It looks like the

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df.global.ui.waypoints.points "thing" (native C++ structure) needs to be transformed into a lua table, for the data to be extracted ?

I've copied the

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pushTarget function to a new file, and I'm trying to get it work "non-interactively", but I'm still "groping in the dark"

[Warmist]

Ok, found the code in gm-editor.lua / function GmEditorUi:pushTarget

Thanks for the hints on what to look for.

Oh wow... I'll give you kudos for that. That file is unreadable :|

Heh, trial and errror  .... every now and then a "blind animal finds ...."

I know a tiny bit of Lua, the rest I "google".

While using gm-editor works for producing text output, I still have to interactively "pick" / edit an entry for it to be "dumped" to the console.

There should be a way to just iterate over all the notes in a script and dump them out.  Well that IS, sorta what the interactive editor is doing (one at a time).

It looks like the

Code: [Select]

df.global.ui.waypoints.points "thing" (native C++ structure) needs to be transformed into a lua table, for the data to be extracted ?

I've copied the

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pushTarget function to a new file, and I'm trying to get it work "non-interactively", but I'm still "groping in the dark"

Although the thing is a native c++ structure, the lua bindings are so flexible that usually you don't care. Depends on what you want to print, but it can be as simple as:

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for i,point in ipairs(df.global.ui.waypoints.points) do
    print(point.id,point.name,point.comment)
end


[mstram]

Where are these Lua bindings documented ?

Or whee are they in the source code ?

A google for "dfhack lua bindings" gives  The Lua API,, (with nothing specific there to this topic of "notes"
https://github.com/DFHack/dfhack/blob/master/docs/Lua%20API.rst

[mstram]

Although the thing is a native c++ structure, the lua bindings are so flexible that usually you don't care. Depends on what you want to print, but it can be as simple as:

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for i,point in ipairs(df.global.ui.waypoints.points) do
    print(point.id,point.name,point.comment)
end


Thanks, that's just (about) what I needed.

I was able to guess at 

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point.pos.x,point.pos.y,point.pos.z from your code