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[vexx22]

Please share all your scripts here, they can help other to understand AS or bring them to new ideas. IF you have a question ask here.

If nobody should share his script without me, this will be the only scripts i ever post here for you.

I know that there are people who are much better in ActionScript as i.

This post has been edited by vexx22: Sep 28 2003, 11:24 PM

[BenJeremy]

QUOTE (sandman2869 @ Oct 3 2003, 10:17 AM)

I have been playing with these scripts for the past couple of days, trying to understand the logic behind it all. This is what I have so far: You can add an actionscript to your menu.xml as an item in the menu and then run it from there.

Well, there are a couple other ways to execute them as well...

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This is what I need help understanding: What are the .xas files for and how do I use them?

.xas files are text files with ActionScripts in them... think of them like DOS BATCH files. They are executed using "CallFile xxxx.xas"

You could use these so you would not need to update your MXM.xml file to modify an existing script, for example. If the calling menu item used a CallFile to load a script from an .xas file, it can be easily replaced/modified.

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What is context and why would I want to use an actionscript in context mode?

Context means you can define custom menu items in "Game Options" - and when you execute a script in a context menu item, it gets specific information about the item selected in the menu. This means you can add, for example, a "Delete Game" option, that already knows what game you've selected, and even that it's on the hard drive, not on the DVD.

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Is there a way to do looping? Like if I want to rename all of the PxGame* directories to the xbetitle, is there a way for me to do into f: hddloader and check to see how many directories there are, thus renaming the directories as I go?

Sure, using IF# (which does a numerical evaluation fo the variables) and labels:

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SET Index 0 :TOPOFLOOP ADD Index 1 IF# %Index% < 10 GOTO TOPOFLOOP

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I have read the readme txt file as well as all of the clinic and am not getting it. I know I'm not the brightest apple in the bunch here, but I can't be that retarded, can I? Please help.

Sorry if it's a little obtuse. ActionScripting shoudl be familiar to those who have created old MS-DOS Batch files, but since that's an art that's probably not been practiced regularly in 8 years, it's understandable that some might not understand too well.

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PS. I have added the current scripts from this thread as menu items in my menu.xml and am loving them, and am currently working on a couple (very very simple) of my own, but would like to expand more on these capabilities. Thanks in advance