Recent changes to feature-requests

perl scripting

Anonymous — Wed, 11 May 2005 07:48:11 -0000

Perl scripting support would be very nice. It would
allow for much more complex scripts and have the added
benefit of a familiar scripting language. Also, perl
supports regular expressions, which would be a huge
benefit to twx for pattern matching.

I attempted to write some of my own twx scripts a while
back and gave up due to some limitations of the twx
scripting language (which isn't all that bad, but I
kept thinking how much easier it would be with perl).

TWX could store important information in perl
accessable variables or arrays, perhaps in a similar
fashion to the Irssi IRC client which has perl script
interface.

Ability for scripts to change game databases.

Michael Hagin — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:40:55 -0000

Originally requested by The WABBIT on the TWX Proxy
support forums.

Sorry about that Xide. But, what I would really meant to
say. Was that I would like the ability to change the
database from script.

Or have the ability to have the script to send the menu
commands, to change the database. And TWX can
receive those commands.

String editing commands

Michael Hagin — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:39:23 -0000

Originally requested by saberwolf on the TWX Proxy
support forums.

accually, I think a great new feature would be a $left and
$right command...where you have a line of text and it
would grab the right X number of letters in it...i.e.:

setvar $tmp $Left(5,"Hello World")

the $tmp would equal "Hello"

Change default value for STARDOCK variable from 0 to V.

Michael Hagin — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:32:51 -0000

Originally requested by RammaR on the TWX Proxy
support forums.

Not sure if its too late for Version 2.03, but in a future
version could you have TWX set the internal STARDOCK
variable from a "V" screen display. Currently
STARDOCK is set to 0 until you actually visit dock's
sector, and some commands don't respond well to a
sector number of 0.

Multi-line comments

Michael Hagin — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:30:41 -0000

Originally requested by Kimsanee on the TWX Proxy
support forums.

The way I program, I put a chunk of text that I later take
out in my scripts, ie: ship stats (off/def odds and things
like that).
If there was a way to comment out multiple lines of
script it sure would be nice. I know I can go through and
put a # at the beginning of each line, but it would be so
much easier if I could just type /* the line above and */
the line below.
I also understand that a person can get lazy with that
and leave those comments in thus slowing down the
script, but those people will just get podded a lot won't
they?

More System Values

Michael Hagin — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:26:45 -0000

Originally requested by Traitor on the TWX Proxy
support forums.

Could you add the following new system values to the
next version:
PORT.EXIST[sector] (returning 1 or 0)
PORT.UPDATED[sector]
SECTOR.UPDATED[sector]

I don't like using getsector to pull these values, since it
appears slower to use it.
.

System Values for AC and Rylos

Michael Hagin — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:25:39 -0000

Originally requested by Traitor on the TWX Proxy
support forums.

It would be cool if you could make System Values for
Alpha Centauri and Rylos, just like you did for the
Stardock.