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I am learning to script and I have a question.. - Fish - 06-18-2011
So if a tool had a fly script in it, I'd be the child and the tool would be the parent? :O
RE: I am learning to script and I have a question.. - Chaos - 06-18-2011
This should be in the scripter's section.
RE: I am learning to script and I have a question.. - Blandflakes - 06-18-2011
Let's say you have a script inside of a box.
Box
VV
Script
The scripts parent is the box. the Box's child is the script.
RE: I am learning to script and I have a question.. - Qwertygiy - 06-18-2011
To find a child inside a parent, you can either go
[lua]
box.[[childsname]]
[/lua]
or, and you have to do this if there's a space in the name,
[lua]
box:getChild("[[childsname]]")
--or in ROBLOX
box:findFirstChild("[[childsname]]")
[/lua][/lua]
RE: I am learning to script and I have a question.. - noob007 - 06-18-2011
Can't you also do,
[lua]
box["childsname"]
[/lua]
Sorry it's been a while since I've scripted in Lua.
RE: I am learning to script and I have a question.. - Qwertygiy - 06-18-2011
I think so, but I've almost never seen it used.
RE: I am learning to script and I have a question.. - Dignity - 06-18-2011
You can't do box.[["childname"]] it's box["childname"].Whatever
RE: I am learning to script and I have a question.. - Jacob__mybb_import1 - 06-18-2011
(06-18-2011, 01:37 AM)noob007 Wrote: Can't you also do,
[lua]
box["childsname"]
[/lua]
Sorry it's been a while since I've scripted in Lua.
The advantage of doing it that way is that you can use variables. box.variableName will give you the child named variableName, but box[variableName] (no quotes) will give you the child with the name that is stored in the variable.