Notes

Temporary scratchpad for all sorts of notes related to this site.

Celx

mouse event

• is rather useless; only tells you that there was a mouse click somewhere, but not whát got clicked
• there also does nót seem to be another way to find out what object got clicked
• see http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=16212

tick event

• appears to be some sort of timer event
• generates an event at irregular intervals
• returns eventinfo.dt that holds interval time
• have to use clock or getscripttime to implement something like a timer

wait()

• Is Celestia not lua
• is not compatible with keyboard or other event
• when used during handling of event returns imediately with return value of "false"

Lua

dofile() versus requires()

• requires only looks for "lua" or "dll"
• does it realy work with lua?
• can requires then be used for objects by changing extention from "celx" to "lua"?

string.format()

• follows the C Printf() rules; see:
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printf
• http://www.codingunit.com/printf-format-specifiers-format-conversions-and-formatted-output

string.match() / string.gmatch()

• find a good explanation on the subject
• http://www.lua.org/pil/20.1.html
• http://lua-users.org/wiki/PatternsTutorial

Scripts

script directory

• look at something that can deliver that?

datetime object

• complete that some time

Site

Scripting:

• Finisch Metatables

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