Retreiving Extension Info

[Trenloe]

Considering it already outputs the list of extensions at startup...

Just as an FYI - FG doesn't do that automatically, it relies on the developer of each extension to write code in their extension to output to the chat window on startup. Hence why dulux_oz is suggesting this code to register and retrieve extension info as there is nothing in FG at the moment to return the extensions loaded.

Of course, it still relies on an extension developer coding a registerExtension command in their extension startup code. Catch-22!

As a further FYI to people reading this thread - the Savage Worlds developers do something very similar to this with their /ver chat command that outputs the name and version of the loaded SW ruleset and extensions.

[dulux-oz]

Perhaps add a slash handler to output all registered extension names and versions to the chat window? /extensionlist maybe?

Nice idea - I'll have a look at the Savage Worlds Code and see what I can come up with.

Cheers

[dulux-oz]

Here's another function devs can add to their Rulesets now that Moon has added the Extension.getExtensions() and Extension.getExtensionInfo() functions to the Extensions package

function fpIsExtensionLoaded(sExtensionName)
	for nIndex,sName in pairs(Extension.getExtensions()) do
	if sName == sExtensionName then
		return true;
		break;
	end
	return false
end

Note that this will only work with FGv3.0.8+ - maybe Moon will add this to the Extensions package as well.

Cheers

[Ikael]

I was also playing slightly with v3.0.8 Extension package and come up this:

for _, sExt in pairs(Extension.getExtensions()) do
    local t = Extension.getExtensionInfo(sExt)
    local sName = ""
    if t.name ~= "" then sName = "[" .. t.name .."]:" end
    local sDesc = ""
    if t.description ~= "" then sDesc = t.description end
    local sVersion = ""
    if t.version ~= "" then sVersion = "(version " .. t.version ..")" end
    local sAuthor = ""
    if t.author ~= "" then sAuthor = "by " .. t.author end
    local sText = ""
    for _, s in pairs({sName, sDesc, sVersion, sAuthor}) do
    if s ~= "" then
            if #sText > 0 then sText = sText .. " " end
           sText = sText .. s    end    end
    Comm.addChatMessage({ font = "emotefont", text = sText })
end

Note that Extension package was not documented that time so I made wild guesses how would it work and ended up with this result

Note: In case of Savage Worlds we are probably not going to use this as primary extension listing/showing because of one feature lacking: Extension properties does not support icon. In Savage Worlds ruleset when you load extension it's nice to see themed icon showing in the chat line next to extension description. Now extension properties does not contain that information, maybe that could be added there ?

[dulux-oz]

Hey Ikael, did you actually get your piece of code to work - because I can't.

Its not throwing up any errors, its just not printing out any Extension details.

Cheers

[Ikael]

Hey Ikael, did you actually get your piece of code to work - because I can't.

Its not throwing up any errors, its just not printing out any Extension details.

Cheers

Are you using latest 3.0.8 version which introduces the Extension package?

This piece of code is already included in current SW4 version as backup plan if developers are lazy to register launch messages for their extensions

[dulux-oz]

Are you using latest 3.0.8 version which introduces the Extension package?

This piece of code is already included in current SW4 version as backup plan if developers are lazy to register launch messages for their extensions

Yes, of course - but you're right and smart to ask.

I'm still playing around with it - the Extension package seems to return both strings and tables... hmmmm....

[dulux-oz]

OK, got it sorted - will be posting some detailed documentation soon

Cheers