Trying to use GetString causing a crash?

[Faintly Macabre]

I'm trying to set my mod up to be able to serve up character-specific strings, but GetString is crashing with the usual "attempt to call global 'GetString' (a nil value)". Something I need to declare to be able to use it?

[Muche]

If you're trying to access it from modmain, then you need to either localize it:

local GetString = GLOBAL.GetString
...
str = GetString(...)

or use it directly:

str = GLOBAL.GetString(...)

 

[Faintly Macabre]

7 minutes ago, Muche said:

If you're trying to access it from modmain, then you need to either localize it:

local GetString = GLOBAL.GetString
...
str = GetString(...)

or use it directly:

str = GLOBAL.GetString(...)

 

I guess I could have just tried that. Is there some kind of rhyme or reason to what is or isn't readily available without localization, or do you just have to trial-and-error it?

[Muche]

Environment available in mod's modmain.lua (and modworldgenmain.lua) is created in mods.lua|CreateEnvironment() and modutil.lua|InsertPostInitFunctions(). Anything that isn't added into it explicitly, has to be accessed via GLOBAL (which incidentally is one of the fields made available in there).

Edited May 25, 2016 by Muche

[Faintly Macabre]

Alright. Thanks much.