Loading External Variables

[legacy-skilesare]

I've been away from UScript for a long time. One thing I wanted to do way back in the day was load variables in from an external source. There was a way to call a web page and then parse the page, but it was very tedious as UScript didn't have much of any string functions. What changes have been put in in this area? Is there a way to pull in variables from an external source/server now? Have the string functionality been improved?

Thanks for the help:

-SkileSare

[legacy-Kholonar]

I'm fairly new to uscript but there is a way to load values from a config file:

class child extends object
	config(configuration_file_name_)
	perobjectconfig;
//work on each objected and work with a configuration file


var config byte/int/string/float/bool/whatever variable_name
//create variables

function CreateDataStruct(out child Data)
{
	Data.variable_name = variable_name;
}
//write to data file your values

function CopyDataFrom(child Data)
{
	variable_name = Data.variable_name;
}
//read from config file your values

I'm not sure about html though

[legacy-Psyk]

You need to use a TCPLink. If you want to get something off the web there is a UScript http system that El_Muerte made. It's called libHTTP and it's on the wiki somewhere.