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[PeridexisErrant]

Do you have any recommended resources for learning lua? I have some programming experience, mostly Javascript, with bits of other languages.

I just started writing DFHack scripts, and it seems to have worked out OK.  There's plenty of work on the issue tracker if you want to try a similar route.

[Putnam]

yeah, DFHack scripts is how I learned, uh, programming actually, my first one was taking a snippet of Quietust's code and replacing some enums

[Rose]

I learned programming from Stonesense.

[Rallor]

We use protobuf and basically you write stuff you need from dfhack to your program. This way you have way more control and can even program in any language you want.

Does the latest version of stonesense use protobuf? I'm trying to find a working example and can not get the addressbook one google themselves provide to work.

[lethosor]

No. Armok Vision does (with the remotefortressreader plugin), and a couple other plugins implement simpler RPC/protobuf commands, like rename.

[Dirst]

I learned programming from Stonesense.

I learned programming from a before-school TV series on BASIC.

Get off my lawn

[Boltgun]

Do you have any recommended resources for learning lua? I have some programming experience, mostly Javascript, with bits of other languages.

Reading other scripts is a good start to see how LUA works.

What you really need to keep as a bookmark is the Dfhack reference : https://github.com/DFHack/dfhack/blob/master/docs/Lua%20API.rst

Because you have a bundle of functions that will let you manipulate DF without writing hundreds of lines of code and a bunch of C++ type checks that are not inside the base LUA.

[vjek]

... I learned programming from a before-school TV series on BASIC.

Get off my lawn

Right there with ya.    1980, woo hoo!

[notfood]

prospect and showmood appear functional now.

strangemood works but it causes corruption and strange situations.

[dmselena]

... I learned programming from a before-school TV series on BASIC.

Get off my lawn

Right there with ya.    1980, woo hoo!

Anyone else remember this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Y8-g9ArLw

This kid demoing it made me feel really effing old.

[Dirst]

... I learned programming from a before-school TV series on BASIC.

Get off my lawn

Right there with ya.    1980, woo hoo!

Started with a VIC-20, which wasn't around yet when I saw the show on TV... I wrote out programs on paper with no way to run them.  But that practice came in handy a few years later when they started putting computers on display at stores... lot's of fun programming them to give advice to customers.

[Rose]

I learned programming from Stonesense.

I learned programming from a before-school TV series on BASIC.

Get off my lawn

If we're going there, I technically learned BASIC from my c64 manual, but I wasn't counting that.

[Krutzelpuntz]

The game has become near unplayable to me without DFHack, especially "anti-micromanaging" commands like workflow are dear to me.

I can't wait for the new version, and I thank everyone who contribute, for making the most awesome game so much better! 

[Hesperid]

Totally agreed, I'd like to see all the new stuff that's in, but I just can't play anymore without all the utilities that spare me from using DF menus.

Could devote my time to helping the new release get made, just not sure who organizes the effort.

[Krutzelpuntz]

If you know your way around.. scripting(?), you can create your own content, and ask for a merge with the current code.
https://github.com/DFHack/dfhack
I don't

Oh, did I forget to mention how ridiculously time saving it is to have a search-bar in every menu?