Creation/Dev/Script/Helpful Posts

This article is currently being written or rewritten by Chris Vimes.

This article contains an incomplete list of helpful scripting snippets, mostly from the Graal Forums, but also from other websites. Please edit this page to add more links as you come across them.

Control Structures

• For and foreach loop

Serverside and Clientside

• Explanation of serverside and clientside, introduction to triggers
• Good trigger examples (both ways)
• Triggering database NPCs from level NPCs

Object/Data Types and Structures

• Arrays
• Custom object types
• Comparing arrays
• Dynamic variable names
• Checking for objects in arrays
• Sorting arrays

Player

• Check if a player is staff
• Timeouts in the player object
• Player classes and reusable public functions
• Getting actual level name on a GMAP
• Passing parameters along with attributes
• Offline player manipulation
• Player latency measuring

GUIs

• Resizable GUIs
• GUI Explorer
• Making controls not steal focus

Client

• Generating commands.rtf

DBNPC and File Data Storage

• Comparison of data storage methods
• Editing text files via script with GUI example
• Editing text files via script

SQLite

• SQL injection
• Using and adding multiple SQLite databases
• SQL Explorer
• SQL speed tests

iOS and Flash

• Multi-touch demo

NPC-Control and Script Types

• Using NPC-Control (video)
• Triggering public functions in weapons from level NPCs
• Classes explanation

Code Gallery

This list contains widely-used tools and code snippets that demonstrate a particular skill or technique. For a complete listing of scripts, see the Code Gallery.

• SQL Explorer
• GUI Explorer
• Graphics Uploader
• Debugger
• Screenshots
• Offline player manipulation

Misc

• Opening PM windows
• Keycode constants
• Communicating with external web servers
• sendText, requestText, and onReceiveText

Other Useful Resources

• Jer's Scripting Guide
• GScript Wiki
• Twinny's GS2 Resource