I Suck at Lua Scripting

Garry's Mod coding
#1

Hi there,

Now, before people are spamming me to death with comments like;

“You haven’t searched Facepunch for your problem.”
“You just don’t know how to search.”

I have looked over Facepunch for a while now to find a situation similar to mine. I think however that i am just don’t getting how the script is supposed to look. In my search to find anyone who could have helped me; i failed. Players on garrysmod are either to cocky and arrogant or they pretend to know.

I posted my thread regarding my problem in scripting. I’ve been experimenting with small things just to get familiar with Lua. However, i bumped.

This is my problem. I was trying to make a derma menu and had it in my first Lua file. It loaded just fine when i started gmod and tested it. Now, it seemed interesting to me to load the menu out of another file. Since both files where already on the client i just included one file into another. However, now i tried launching the menu ingame and it failed.

I just used the include() to make this happen. Can anyone explain me properly on how to run functions from another file in my main Lua script.

Thanks in Advance,
SilverMagics.

#2

You also ‘suck’ at asking for help.

See JSharpe’s excellent article on the matter.

You haven’t given enough information for anyone to help you well.

#3

I am just asking if anyone could explain me how to call functions from another lua script. Like JSharpe explained read all of the post.

I am not asking anyone to fix my problem, i am asking anyone to explain to how to call a function from another file. If my problem gets fixed without me knowing what to do the next time its kinda useless. So, all i am asking is how to call a function from another file.

Deco, not cool.

Anyhow, Thanks in Advance,
SilverMagics

#4

Since nobody seems to feel like helping this guy, I’ll do so.

To call a function from another file you’ll first need to include the file which contains the function you’d like to call. To do so you need to use include(). The syntax is:
[lua]include(“name.lua”)[/lua] The syntax can also be found at http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=Include

Now, to call the function from the included file just call it like any other function. Like so:
[lua]name()
– Example: my_Function()[/lua]
More information about functions and how they work can be found here: http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=Functions

#5

Here you go:

Edit: Damn you, ColtoM :ninja:

#6

Thanks both for taking time in showing this. I looked on wiki as for that much i tried, i followed the example but i guess i was just stupid… xD

Anyhow many thanks

#7

Unless I’m mistaken functions declared globally can be called from any other script.

In one file:
[lua]function der() print(“derp”) end[/lua]

In another:
[lua]der()[/lua]

should print derp. I’ve tried global functions and they work fine.

#8

Only if those files have actually been loaded.