Is the Lua OS Library Supported?

[Gedalya]

Is the Lua OS library suported? Is it possible to run the following snippit in my plugin to trigger another script?

os.execute('C:\\tmp\\MyFile.bat')

I keep getting the following error: "attempt to index a nil value".

[w33zl]

Originally Posted by Gedalya Is the Lua OS library suported? Is it possible to run the following snippit in my plugin to trigger another script? os.execute('C:\\tmp\\MyFile.bat') I keep getting the following error: "attempt to index a nil value".

No, it is currently not possible to perform any i/o operations. This is intentional by Zenimax.

[Gedalya]

Thanks! Saved me a lot of headache!

[Fyrakin]

Well, if you could make a clipboard listener application you could trigger another script by placing something to clipboard.

[w33zl]

Originally Posted by Fyrakin Well, if you could make a clipboard listener application you could trigger another script by placing something to clipboard.

You mean for the user to copy any text into the clipboard manually? Or do ESO support any LUA command to save data to clipboard?

[Fyrakin]

Originally Posted by w33zl You mean for the user to copy any text into the clipboard manually? Or do ESO support any LUA command to save data to clipboard?

Add-on can do copy something formatted/patterned (well anything up to 1k characters) to clipboard. All you have to do is to make a desktop application which listens for clipboard, if anything is copied there your app checks its contents and if there is something that interests it it can do anything externally - shell, http post, smtp, create file, etc. You get the idea.

[w33zl]

Originally Posted by Fyrakin Add-on can do copy something formatted/patterned (well anything up to 1k characters) to clipboard. All you have to do is to make a desktop application which listens for clipboard, if anything is copied there your app checks its contents and if there is something that interests it it can do anything externally - shell, http post, smtp, create file, etc. You get the idea.

Interesting, how do you save to clipboard? I have looked in the ESOUI Wiki but couldn't find anything useful.

[Fyrakin]

--Buffer preparation
if (not _G["YOUR_BUFFER_WINDOW_NAME"]) then
	WINDOW_MANAGER:CreateTopLevelWindow("YOUR_BUFFER_WINDOW_NAME")
end
if (not _G["YOUR_BUFFER"]) then
	WINDOW_MANAGER:CreateControlFromVirtual("YOUR_BUFFER", _G["YOUR_BUFFER_WINDOW_NAME"], "ZO_DefaultEditMultiLineForBackdrop")
end
_G["YOUR_BUFFER"]:SetAlpha(0) -- make it transparent
_G["YOUR_BUFFER"]:SetCopyEnabled(true)
_G["YOUR_BUFFER"]:SetMaxInputChars(1000)
_G["YOUR_BUFFER"]:SetMouseEnabled(false)


-- Specific commands to place somethig to clipboard
_G["YOUR_BUFFER"]:SetText("Here is something for the clipboard listener")
_G["YOUR_BUFFER"]:CopyAllTextToClipboard() -- This is it.

[sirinsidiator]

EditBox control elements offer a copy to clipboard method.
You can either use an existing editbox like the chat input box or create your own, set the text and then call the copy function.

-- do this once
local clipBoardControl = WINDOW_MANAGER:CreateControl("Chat2ClipboardControl", GuiRoot, CT_EDITBOX)
clipBoardControl:SetHidden(true)
clipBoardControl:SetMaxInputChars(1000)

-- call this whenever you want to copy something
clipBoardControl:SetText("Hello World")
clipBoardControl:CopyAllTextToClipboard()