How can i shorten this code?

My neverending quest of designing my custom ruleset continues...

This time i have been successful in finish the character sheet and its features. However, i think it's not really optimized. There's a ton of repetitive code for each of the many attributes of the sheet, the only difference being the name of the attribute itself in the code. I would like to make a custom script that would take all this repetitive functions in one place, so i could pass just one single parameter on each attribute, instead of repeating the whole code.

This is an example:

Code:

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<specialization name="str_spec">
        <script>
                function onInit()
                        if getValue() == "" then
                                setValue("No Specialization")
                        else
                                window.strength.setTooltipText(getValue())
                        end
                end
                                       
                function onValueChanged()
                        window.strength.setTooltipText(getValue())
                end
        </script>
</specialization>

<stringcontrol name="strength">
        <anchored>
                <to>frame_physical</to>
                <position>insidetopleft</position>
                <offset>25,28</offset>
        </anchored>
                               
        <static>Strength</static>
                               
        <script>
                function onDoubleClick()
                        local value = window.str_points.getValue()
                        local dicepool = ChatManager.d10Check(value)
                        local diff = 6 + ModifierStack.getSum()
                                                       
                        if Input.isShiftPressed() then
                                window.pool.setValue(value)
                                window.pool_name.setValue(getValue())
                        else
                                ActionsManager.performRoll(nil, nil, "Strength", diff, bSecretRoll, dicepool)
                        end
                end
                                       
                function onDrop(x,y,dragdata)
                        if Input.isControlPressed() then
                                window.str_spec.setValue("Speciality: " .. dragdata.getStringData())
                        end
                end
        </script>
</stringcontrol>
                       
<standard_points name="str_points">
        <anchored>
                <to>strength</to>
                <position>insidetopleft</position>
                <offset>95,-2</offset>
                <size>
                        <width>50</width>
                        <height>20</height>
                </size>
        </anchored>
        <default>1</default>
</standard_points>

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If, let's say, i start a new file and register it as "CustomScript:

How could i take these repetitive scripts in a way that i could just call a function like CustomScript.shorten("attribute_name") instead of repeat the whole code? I tried myself but i having trouble in figure out how can i make so that this new file knows where the node is when a function calls it from another file...
(as you can see, i have limited LUA and FG structure knowledge. Please, be patient with me... ;) )

You could do what you are saying; or you could make a template that reads information from a XML tag in the control definition.

For an example of the latter, try looking at the template number_charabilityscore in the 5E ruleset that uses the "target" tag.

See these references for that example:
campaign/template_char.xml (for template definition),
campaign/template_campaign.xml (for number_abilityscore child template definition),
campaign/scripts/number_abilityscore.lua (for child template script),
campaign/record_char_main.xml (for actually control definition using template with target tags)

Regards,
JPG

I have to trust Moon in relation to templates because I've not yet used them. However, to answer the question "how can i make so that this new file knows where the node is when a function calls it from another file" you can pass a reference to self or window depending on where it ends up being called from. Then in the registered Lua file you can find out thru that passed variable who called you.

Jason