commandToServer With A Variable

[jes00]

How would I use commandToServer with %command? I tried commandToServer(%command); (crashed Blockland) and commandToServer('%command'); (didn't work).

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[jes00]

Huh. I guess I could just use eval.

[Zeblote]

commandtoserver(addtaggedstring(%command), %args);

[jes00]

commandtoserver(addtaggedstring(%command), %args);

Thanks. Useful information. But I'm still using eval, so I don't need to do %arg1, %arg1, %arg2, %arg3, %arg4, %arg5, and so forth.

[Zeblote]

Thanks. Useful information. But I'm still using eval, so I don't need to do %arg1, %arg1, %arg2, %arg3, %arg4, %arg5, and so forth.

Why would you use eval for something like this?

[jes00]

Why would you use eval for something like this?

Converting this
clientCmdUpdateActionMenu("UI Text#someServerCmd, arg1, arg2, arg3|UI Text#anotherServerCmd, arg1, arg2, arg3|UI Text#someOtherServerCmd, arg1, arg2, arg3");
Into a GUI bitmap button controls and doing command = "eval(\"commandToServer(\'" @ %command @ "\'," @ %args @ ");\");"; (I do a bunch of separating and filtering and stuff before this).

[Zeblote]

Converting this
clientCmdUpdateActionMenu("UI Text#someServerCmd, arg1, arg2, arg3|UI Text#anotherServerCmd, arg1, arg2, arg3|UI Text#someOtherServerCmd, arg1, arg2, arg3");
Into a GUI bitmap button controls and doing command = "eval(\"commandToServer(\'" @ %command @ "\'," @ %args @ ");\");"; (I do a bunch of separating and filtering and stuff before this).

But with the command field of a gui control you're creating a string that is going to be evaluated, so you could just do this:
command = "commandtoserver(\'" @ %command @ "\'," @ %args @ ");";
There's no need for a double eval.

[jes00]

But with the command field of a gui control you're creating a string that is going to be evaluated, so you could just do this:
command = "commandtoserver(\'" @ %command @ "\'," @ %args @ ");";
There's no need for a double eval.

Good idea/point.

[Nexus]

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relevant bit:

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%find = "_";
%replace = " ";
%cmd = "\'"@ getword($servercommandgui::command_[%key,%x], 0) @"\'";
for(%a=1; %a<getwordcount($servercommandgui::command_[%key,%x]); %a++)
%cmd = %cmd @ ",\"" @ strreplace(getword($servercommandgui::command_[%key,%x], %a), %find, %replace) @ "\"";
eval("commandtoserver("@%cmd@");");

Where $servercommandgui::command_[%key, %x] will be a string like "messagesent potato" or "slay rykuta"
The first word is the command and each word after is an argument.