An Intermediate Guide to Scripting

[Monkwarrior]

Hi to all the scripters.

I've been "fighting" against some script commands, and I've revised the old thread about commands working or not working (or not tested).

As that thread was hidden in the ancient times (last year ), I prefer to post here my doubts and commments, and perhaps somebody could update the list.

suspend_unscripted_advice true
I thought that this command disables all the advices, except those launched in the script.
If so, then I'm doing something wrong, as I put this at the beginning of the script and I receive advices about ships, armies and so on.
I'm studying the scripts from other mods and in one case (I don't remember if it was TFT) this command was repeated in all the turns of the 4tpy script.
As I'm not using 4tpy, I need a loop to keep the script monitoring events and conditions. Thus the structure of the script is this:

script
suspend_unscripted_advice true
while I_TurnNumber < 500
here the whole script
end_while
terminate_script

Should I include the suspend_unscripted advice inside the loop? I think I did it, but the advices keep on being launched.
Should I put some repetition for this command in every turn? I'm thinking in something like this:

monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionType carthage
and I_TurnNumber < 500
suspend_unscripted_advice true
terminate_monitor

select_ui_element
I'm trying that the scripted advices will be shown directly. For this purpose I tried this structure:

advance_advice_thread MyNewAdvice_Thread no_dismiss
select_ui_element advisor_portrait_button
simulate_mouse_click lclick_down
simulate_mouse_click lclick_up

But I must click on the portrait manually.
Is the ui_element advisor_portrait_button wrong? I think I saw it in some list of ui elements.

test_message
This is the most intriguing problem for me. I've been trying to launch different types of message, such as historic events, wonder captured, civil war... with no success.
Just in case it was a problem of the conditions or event, I tried to launch it at the start and the end of the faction turn, at the start and the end of a character turn, but no way.
And all those conditions or events were functional for other commands such as advices, creation of buildings or training of units.
If the campaign must fullfil the requirements for the event, then the command test_message is useless.
What am I doing wrong?

senate_mission
About the possible update of the list of working commands, I tried several of them related with senate missions:

senate_mission_help_player (with money or units)
senate_mission_declare_war
senate_mission_take_city

The three are working, with some limitations: only for roman factions as LocalFaction, and the mission is not authomatically assigned, only the message appears.

Cheers.

[Myrddraal]

select_ui_element
I'm trying that the scripted advices will be shown directly. For this purpose I tried this structure:

... ...

But I must click on the portrait manually.
Is the ui_element advisor_portrait_button wrong? I think I saw it in some list of ui elements.

I used this once after automatically running a show me script at the start of a campaign, I wanted to dismiss the advisor. Only problem is I can't remember if it worked or not...

[blacksnail]

I can't find this anywhere else so I'll ask here.

Say there's a building in a settlement and I want the script to open the building info scroll for that particular building (ie, the equivalent of "right-clicking" the building in the city scroll). How would I go about this? IE, assume I have the "if building X exists in settlement Y" setup correct, what command could I use to open the scroll for that particular building?