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Getting started with the Authoring Kit

Hi I'm Andrew, I usually do work for Pathfinder and am learning Shadow Run 5, but I've also decided to take a dive into the Authoring Kit (after having it for about a year) and learn the inner workings of Hero Lab.

I've started working my way through the example code converting the skeleton files to Savage Worlds (while reading the unofficial documentation file when I'm away from the computer).

I'm just early on in the first trait section. I've gone through adding the limits of 2-6 to the system and those are working fine, but when I go to change the display to dice it isn't changing. I've virtually copied the code from the wiki to the traits file and it just says as numbers.

My code is:

Code:

            <eval index="4" phase="Render" priority="5000" name="Calc trtDisplay">

            <after name="Calc trtFinal"/><![CDATA[

                  ~if this is a derived trait, let it determine its own value for display

                   doneif (tagis[component.Derived] <> 0)

                  

                  ~bound our final value including in-play adjustments

                  var final as number

                  final = field[trtFinal].value

                  if (final < 2) then

                    final = 2

                  elseif (final > 6) then

                    final = 6

                        endif

                        

                  ~convert final value for the trait to the proper die type for display

                  var dietype as number

                  var display as string

                  dietype = final * 2

                  display = "d" & dietype

                  

                  ~put the final result in the proper field

                  field[trtDisplay].text = display

                  ]]></eval>

Now I notice when I view the fields on one of the traits and see the trtDisplay field it is shown correct but it doesn't display correcly in the in the interface. Am I missing something or is there a step I'm not accounting for somewhere?

Thanks for any help,
Andrew

Guess I should have gone a little farther because after changing the display stuff at the bottom of the page it updated in the Basics tab, although the sample says it should update after what I did.

Ok continuing my way through the tutorial and I'm in the section on Encumbrance and to the part where you add the identity tags to the attribute component.

I add the line

Code:

<identity group="Attribute"/>

To the attribute component and I get the following error.

Quote:

Hero Lab was forced to stop compilation after the following errors were detected:

File: traits.str (line 197) - Encountered unknown element tag 'identity'
One or more timing errors were identified. Please review the timing report and correct the errors. You can access the report under the 'Develop' menu or by clicking this link.

my Attribute component looks like this

Code:

  <component

    id="Attribute"

    name="Attribute"

    autocompset="no">



    <!-- Attributes have a minimum trait value of 1 -->

    <eval index="1" phase="Initialize" priority="3000"><![CDATA[

      field[trtMinimum].value = 1

      ]]></eval>



    <!-- Each attribute point above one that is allocated by the user costs 7 CP -->

    <eval index="2" phase="Traits" priority="10000">

      <before name="Calc resLeft"/>

      <after name="Bound trtUser"/><![CDATA[

      hero.child[resCP].field[resSpent].value += (field[trtUser].value - 1) * 7

      ]]></eval>

      <identity group="Attribute"/>

    </component>

Line 197 is the line where the tag was added. Am I missing something?

In this list of what can go into a component, what's the relative order of identity and eval (which comes before which)?

What order do you have them in?

http://hlkitwiki.wolflair.com/index....ent_%28Data%29

I see, thank you, I'm still in the Advanced Authoring Topics in my read through, I will remember this in the future.

Yup, bitten me more than just a couple times as I'm developing the C&C plugin.