How do i get table.insert to work from modinfo.lua ?

[seronis]

Prefixes of _G and GLOBAL dont seem to make  table.insert() function from inside modinfo.lua.  Neither does it just work on its own.

 

Any way to get this to work ?

 

Also why cant percentile symbols show up in the 'description' part of a button?  I've tried escaping it with double percentile symbols and with a slash.  Neither escape method worked to get it to show up in the interface.

[Mobbstar]

modinfo isn't allowed to perform functions or arithmetics. Simplex could sing a song about it. EDIT

[seronis]

Well it performs functions perfectly fine. Just doesnt seem to call library functions.  Mostly due to something i saw in Simplexs mods im setting up configuration utility functions.

 

 

local function op_bool(name, label, defval)   return {      name = name,    label = label,      options = {         {description = "Yes", data = 1},         {description = "No",  data = 0},      },      default = defval and 1 or 0,   }endlocal function op_prct(name, label, defval)   return {      name = name,    label = label,      options = {         {description =   "0%", data = 0  },         {description =  "10%", data = 10 },         {description =  "20%", data = 20 },         {description =  "30%", data = 30 },         {description =  "40%", data = 40 },         {description =  "50%", data = 50 },         {description =  "60%", data = 60 },         {description =  "70%", data = 70 },         {description =  "80%", data = 80 },         {description =  "90%", data = 90 },         {description = "100%", data = 100},      },      default = defval or 0,   }endlocal function op_valx(_name, _label, _valBase, _valIncBy, _valIncNum, _defval)   _options = {}   _i = 0   finish = _valBase + ( _valIncBy * _valIncNum )   for _val = _valBase, finish, _valIncBy do      _i = _i + 1      _options[_i] = {description = _val, data = _val}   end   return {      name = _name, label = _label, options = _options, default = _defval or _valBase,   }end  configuration_options = {-- the number of dashes is how many letters are available for the label name   op_bool("op_enabled", "*---------------------*", true),   op_prct("op_ignored", "*---------------------*", 0),   op_valx("op_testing", "--1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0--", 0, 10, 10 ),   op_valx("op_testing", "--1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0--", 0, 10, 10, 50 ),   op_valx("op_testing", "--1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0--", 50, 5, 10, 75 ),}

I had originally tried using table.insert for the 3rd utility function.  But can get by without it.  Im not sure why percentiles dont show up though

 

[Corrosive]

As far as I know, you can't.

 

modinfo.lua is run in a sandboxed environment using setfenv().  You're given pretty much a blank environment with nothing to work with apart from basic lua keywords.  You can confirm this by changing line 205 of modindex.lua to:

	local env = {print = print, getfenv = getfenv, pairs = pairs}

and then from within any modinfo.lua:

for k,v in pairs(getfenv()) do print(k,v) end

The only variables are those that were referenced through env, as well as any that are defined in modinfo.lua prior to calling getfenv().

[Corrosive]

.....They really should give you at least read-access to data your mod has saved, imo =/