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Originally Posted by damned

Hola Amatiste

I think that Top Secret would be easily achieved in MoreCore. Holler if you need help.

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Will do:) thanks

Top Secret? Ooh, ah... haven't played that since puberty!

Okey, now I am kinda stuck at several places. First thing first, a combo box.

So I've added the combo box code from CoreRpg into my extension:

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<combobox name="checkselected">
                                <anchored to="characterinfo" position="insidetopleft" offset="25,0" width="100" height="20" />
                                <default textres="ps_default_groupability" />
                                <gmvisibleonly />
                                <script>
                                        function onInit()
                                                super.onInit();
                                                addItems(DataCommon.psrace);
                                        end
                                </script>
</combobox>

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Then I've added the script and given it the name "DataCommon", and under "psrace" I've added the following:

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psrace = {
                Interface.getString("Reiklander"),
                Interface.getString("Dwarf"),
                Interface.getString("Elf"),
                Interface.getString("Hafling"),
        };

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THEN I've added some strings in my string file.

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<root>
               
                <!-- Common -->
                <string name="Reiklander">Reiklander</string>
                <string name="Dwarf">Dwarf</string>
                <string name="Elf">Elf</string>
                <string name="Hafling">Hafling</string>
               
                <string name="ps_default_groupability">Reiklander</string>
               
</root>

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And now I get the following error:

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[4/22/2020 9:05:01 PM] [<color="red">ERROR</color>] Failed script initialization (DataCommon): [string "scripts/data_common.lua"]:4: attempt to index global 'Interface' (a nil value)

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I belive the strings are correct as it can find the "ps_default_groupabilty" string and add Reiklander as the default choice.
And now I don't know where to keep on troubleshooting.

EDIT: Just got another error:

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[4/22/2020 9:23:28 PM] [<color="red">ERROR</color>] Script execution error: [string "common/scripts/combobox.lua"]:337: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil)

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Hey Shaky

I am unable to make any time to help you on this debugging right now
FYI I will be making a Races tool, similar to Classes, for MoreCore very soon.

No worries. I'm just happy you've helped me so much allready.
I have plenty of other things I need to do with the extension, so maybe I'll get some ideas for troubleshooting through that.

Damned, Quick question. I copied and renamed the file record_char_notes in Morecore/campaign to be able to change things for the Top Secret sheet I am working on, where do you put your own version for the extension? Do you make a campaign folder?

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Originally Posted by Amatiste

Damned, Quick question. I copied and renamed the file record_char_notes in Morecore/campaign to be able to change things for the Top Secret sheet I am working on, where do you put your own version for the extension? Do you make a campaign folder?

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Its best to replicate the file/folder structure - obviously only include the things you are changing.

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Originally Posted by damned

Attached is the extension code up to the end of video five so you can easily access the source files if you cannot follow it completely from the videos.
Note that the manager_custom_thac0.lua and manager_custom_dbdamage.lua are contained within MoreCore and not within the extension.

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This may be a basic question but how do I take the ext file and produce the xml and lua files?

FG uses several different file extensions

.pak is for rulesets
.ext is for extensions
.mod is for modules
.ppk is for portraits

All of them are actually ZIP files. If you install 7zip it will recognise files as such.

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Originally Posted by Amatiste

Damned, Quick question. I copied and renamed the file record_char_notes in Morecore/campaign to be able to change things for the Top Secret sheet I am working on, where do you put your own version for the extension? Do you make a campaign folder?

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Amatiste I have had a little side fling and made a Top Secret extension.
I will post it very soon and would welcome any feedback.