Question about NWNX! strings

[Bodatoda]

I have been using NWNX with my PW for some time now and I've decided that I need certain variables to be persistent through server reboots, module revisions, etc. Is that what adding NWNX! to my variable names is supposed to do?

For instance, if I make a localvar for completing a quest NWNX!quest_done instead of just quest_done, should this variable stick with the character through reboots, etc?

Will this work if all I have installed is the main NWNX executable? Do I need the ODBC plugin?

I actually did install the ODBC plugin and added NWNX! to some of my variables names to test and they don't stick through a reboot of the server.

Thanks for any help.

[xaltos]

You are on the wrong track.
NWNX is not working like this.

You can store with the ODBC plugin some data into a SQL Database.
But you need to setup a script that reads or writes the Data with SQL Commandos to the DB.


Here is a small example how this could look like.

[FunkySwerve]

NWNX! strings are simply locals that different nwnx plugins look for and interact with. You need to try out the aps_demo mod, it demonstrates use of persistency functions, and has a full library of them, including get/setpersistentstring/int/float etc.
Funky