NWNX Events

[Ravine]

No, i mean PREVENT the disturbance, and get the item which was tried.
Shops don't have the onDisturbed event by the way, and i wanna use it on them...

[virusman]

Hooked object deletion.. It's very sensitive - about a half of NWScript functions will crash the server when called inside the event handler, but it may be useful, since localvars, tag, resref and other base information is accessible.
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[Squatting Monk]

Is there any way to get the absolute node ID in the action script of an NPC node? GetSelectedAbsoluteNodeID() works for PC action nodes, and GetCurrentAbsoluteNodeID() works for PC and NPC check nodes, but neither works for NPC action nodes.

My work-around thus far has been to get put a check script on every NPC node that has an action script and use GetCurrentAbsoluteNodeID() to store the ID as a local int for retrieval in the action script. Is there a better way, or is this a bug?

[virusman]

Yes, it doesn't hook NPC nodes' action scripts yet.
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[virusman]

Unreleased material: object destruction hook, GetScriptReturnValue (run any conditional script with RunScript, then get the result with this function).
I'll release it when I have time. If you need it sooner, you can ask here.
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[Squatting Monk]

[Paul R]

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone else has this same issue. I'm currently using 1.3.2 but even with earlier versions anything captured with the EVENT_TOGGLE_MODE produces a STACK UNDERFLOW message such as :

[Skywing]

Could you post a link to the compiled script, source, and debug symbols for it (ncs, nss, and ndb files)? (Or PM them to me.)

I'd be curious to see whether this appears to be a compiler issue or just a runtime problem with the NWNX code mismanaging the VM stack. I've got some tools for performing static analysis on compiled scripts that should let us identify whether the compiler was at fault here.

[Paul R]

hmm, in case it matters I'm using the nwnnsscomp from the Linux command line to compile all of the scripts. There is no version string but the copyright header is:

Copyright 2002-2003, Edward T. Smith
Copyright 2003, The Open Knights Consortium

The binary is 796535 bytes.

I can create a cutdown version of the event script and see if that still has issues, if so I'll post a link to it. If that cutdown version does not have the issues I'll add the code back in till it does.

In the meantime I have downloaded the Advanced Script Compiler zip file and will have a look tomorrow.

Thanks for your help

Paul
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[Skywing]

I'd be interested to see what the results are.

(The Advanced Script Compiler is an extended version of the compiler core behind nwnnsscomp, with a number of patches to fix bugs and add warnings/errors to bring it into parity with the standard BioWare compiler in compatibility mode, plugged in to a different resource loader backend and with a rewritten compiler driver frontend. I don't produce a Linux port of it, but brianmeyer at irc.nwn2source.net/#nwn2cr has been patching an OSX fork of nwnnsscomp with my changes, if you're curious. Since nobody else has been maintaining ETS's compiler, I've more or less assumed maintainership of my own fork of it.)

[Ravine]

Hi!

I also had that STACK UNDERFLOW errors all the time. First, i thought resman plugin causing it, but it's not that. Probably you're right, it must be the compiler, because when i changed the main switch/case structure to if/else, everything is OK.

[Paul R]

Interesting, I'm glad you said that as that validates something I have seen before.

I tried that same workaround as well a couple of months back and it did clear up some of them, in that case it fixed the DM Pause event in a different case block. I did put it down to the event code being running the VM and as mentioned tried to keep things as clean and direct as possible to avoid issues.

But when I did that this week when I added the counterspell case to that case block it still had the issues as if/then/else versions (actually it brought more in as I was capturing the stealth feat activation before and that brings up the error now).

I'm away this weekend unfortunately and I will have more time next week so I will rewrite that a bit and see what happens.

I was also going try and just compile the code as it is in the toolset (if it will due to the include files I use) as that would be a very simple test.

Thank you


Skywing, I use the Linux compiler quite a bit so I don't mind putting in some time to getting some of your patches in and make it more stable if you don't mind.
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[Skywing]

Paul, could you find me on irc.nwn2source.net (#nwn2cr)? We can see about merging the changes I've made into your source tree. I'd appreciate having a maintainer for a Linux build of the old nwnnsscomp shell with the many compiler updates that have been happening if you're willing.

[Paul R]

Sure, will do tomorrow when I come back from work UK time, what timezone are you in?

I took the code and used the toolset compiler which initially failed with this:

[Skywing]