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08-15-2012, 01:37 AM
Delsus

Wierd chatlog

Just had this random things pop up in my chatlog, anyone have any ideas what it is? Just curious.

http://i994.photobucket.com/albums/a...s/Untitled.jpg
08-15-2012, 01:40 AM
Akira_Tenshi

lol that is strange, I have never seen anything like that. must be a new bug.
08-15-2012, 01:41 AM
Jennestia

There's a knot in the spaghetti code somewhere. :o
08-15-2012, 01:41 AM
Munba

Dalamud is breaking the scripts too..
08-15-2012, 01:44 AM
Delsus

Quote:

Originally Posted by Munba

Dalamud is breaking the scripts too..

Or maybe its the gravitational pull of Atomos pulling the code out.
08-15-2012, 01:45 AM
Gramul

Kinda looks like code that would happen when you create a new character.
08-15-2012, 01:48 AM
Delsus

It literally just came on my chat log while I was standing in Ul'dah, no idea what I did.
08-15-2012, 01:49 AM
Weiss_R

Uh sexy debug code, as a programmer i like to see this kind of things.
08-15-2012, 01:52 AM
Hulan

That's really interesting, at first I thought it was the schema for the character table in their database. Actually reading through it though, I'm not entirely sure what it is. Each section appears to pertain to the checklist that is gone through whenever a request is sent (say teleport, check destination, sender name, sender sex). Either way, clearly it's some sort of interpreted code, probably Lua. Congratulations, you've just seen through the looking glass.
08-15-2012, 01:53 AM
Hulan

Quote:

Originally Posted by Weiss_R

Uh sexy debug code, as a programmer i like to see this kind of things.

You know, you are probably right, this is probably just a debug script that ran by accident (which is weird, you would think they would have completely removed all debugging calls in the production version to improve performance).

These look suspiciously like AddListener calls to me though, the first argument being the callback, not entirely sure what the second argument is, but the third argument looks like a reference to the actor that calls the callback.
08-15-2012, 01:58 AM
Delsus

I was just a little suprised when all that came up as a system message, but it does look a lot like code, what code who knows, I have done a little bit of programming, but not much so I couldn't say exactly what language it is.

Would the mods, have anything to say about me posting this, seeing as it does seem to be some of the game's code?
08-15-2012, 02:01 AM
Jennestia

Not really since it's not like someone from Arenanet would be able to replicate an entire game off of it :P It's fairly common to leave certain type of scripts (debug wise) in MMOs because of the massive amount of processes that has to be running at all times.

They'd more than likely tell you to post it in bugs section lol.
08-15-2012, 02:03 AM
Delsus

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jennestia

Not really since it's not like someone from Arenanet would be able to replicate an entire game off of it :P It's fairly common to leave certain type of scripts (debug wise) in MMOs because of the massive amount of processes that has to be running at all times.

They'd more than likely tell you to post it in bugs section lol.

That's ok then, and if they did have a problem they can just remove the pic lol, wish I could find out exactly what that block does though, I'm intrigued now.
08-15-2012, 02:18 AM
Rannie

Del you suck my work blocks your image so i can't see it =P and you spelled weird wrong

(YES I TROLLED YOU DEL. I'll flare you when i get home)
08-15-2012, 02:30 AM
Delsus

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rannie

Del you suck my work blocks your image so i can't see it =P and you spelled weird wrong

(YES I TROLLED YOU DEL. I'll flare you when i get home)

Rannie you damn grammar nazi my threads are immune to your trolling.
08-15-2012, 02:38 AM
Rannie

That's it double flare now when I get home from work
08-15-2012, 02:39 AM
Delsus

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rannie

That's it double flare now when I get home from work

Pfft, you know I'm immune to your flare, and if your at work shouldn't you be umm.... working?
08-15-2012, 02:51 AM
Rannie

PFFT I am working it's call typing inbetween calls
08-15-2012, 03:00 AM
Delsus

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rannie

PFFT I am working it's call typing inbetween calls

Hmm Rannie's job is trolling, how can I get that?
08-15-2012, 03:28 AM
Hulan

Well, after brushing up on my Lua syntax a bit (scripting languages are not exactly my cup of tea), that looks like it could be a table constructor. Possibly an associative array to store possible UI functions and responses. On the other hand, without more information, it could just as easily be the output from a debugging line that got left in by accident.
08-15-2012, 04:56 AM
Weiss_R

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hulan

Well, after brushing up on my Lua syntax a bit (scripting languages are not exactly my cup of tea), that looks like it could be a table constructor. Possibly an associative array to store possible UI functions and responses. On the other hand, without more information, it could just as easily be the output from a debugging line that got left in by accident.

Not certain how lua works but i have seen things like this when trying to build dynamic scripts and one of the parts fail or try to process an invalid character. (like a text with quotation marks)
In any case its probably something to do with a variable since it did not happen to a massive amount of people (or an intern).
08-15-2012, 05:11 AM
Zyph

That's awesome, I love looking at code!
08-15-2012, 05:18 AM
Laughlyn

lol looks like GM commands
08-15-2012, 05:20 AM
Rannie

Btw del I looked at that and that's some freaky stuff weird that it happened
08-15-2012, 05:21 AM
Zyph

What I want to know is why Raise and Teleport take into account the caster's gender.

WHAT ARE YOU UP TO SE?
08-15-2012, 05:23 AM
Hulan

Quote:

Originally Posted by Weiss_R

Not certain how lua works but i have seen things like this when trying to build dynamic scripts and one of the parts fail or try to process an invalid character. (like a text with quotation marks)
In any case its probably something to do with a variable since it did not happen to a massive amount of people (or an intern).

Lua looks and acts like pretty much every other scripting language (javascript, perl, ruby, etc). What sets it apart is how bare bones but blazing fast it is. Lua runs closer to the speed of a compiled language (apparently) than a scripting language. On the other hand, it's built-in functionality is pretty fundamental. It does support Closures and first order functions though, so you can do psudo-OOP with it; build whatever objects and functionality you need.
08-15-2012, 05:26 AM
Hulan

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zyph

What I want to know is why Raise and Teleport take into account the caster's gender.

WHAT ARE YOU UP TO SE?

This is probably so the text looks right, I can't remember exactly what it says and I can't look it up right now, but for instance: "Hulan Temet would like to teleport you to Camp Bearded Rock, would you like to accept his teleport?" Since the text needs to know what sex to label the sender as, there needs to be a value for it.
08-15-2012, 05:39 AM
Weiss_R

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hulan

Lua looks and acts like pretty much every other scripting language (javascript, perl, ruby, etc). What sets it apart is how bare bones but blazing fast it is. Lua runs closer to the speed of a compiled language (apparently) than a scripting language. On the other hand, it's built-in functionality is pretty fundamental. It does support Closures and first order functions though, so you can do psudo-OOP with it; build whatever objects and functionality you need.

Sounds nice, i should read up a bit on it.
08-17-2012, 01:34 AM
Qeepel

Hello!

Thank you for the report, that does seem rather strange. I'll forwarded it on to be looked at further. :)

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