Best way of getting the current character node from any child of the node?

[peterb]

Is there a way to get the current character node without having to "walk the tree", like "window.window.windowlist.window"?

I like to be able to write something like the code below from any child of the character node.

nDodgePenalty = math.abs(DB.getValue(nodeChar, "penalty.dodge", nil)) * -1

[bayne7400]

local nodeWin= DB.getChild(window.getDatabaseNode(),"...")

That is if that control is sitting in a windowlist under the top node. You can adjust the dots to move higher or not quite as high

[Trenloe]

Get the path string to some database node within the charsheet and then use something like the following.

In this code, sPath is the full dot seperated database path to something within the character sheet - you can get this with DB.getPath(databasenode)

local sSplitNode = StringManager.split(sPath, ".")[1];
local nodeChar = nil;
if sSplitNode[1] and sSplitNode[2] then
	nodeChar = DB.findNode(sSplitNode[1] .. "." .. sSplitNode[2]);
end

[bmos]

you can get this with <databasenode>.getNodeName()

Important to note that latest best practices are to not use functions embedded in databasenode objects like node.getPath() in favor of DB.getPath(node)

* Reminders
Use DB over databasenode API calls

EDITED: changed getNodeName to getPath to avoid confusion

[Trenloe]

Important to note that latest best practices are to not use functions embedded in databasenode objects like node.getNodeName() in favor of DB.getNodeName(node)

Thanks!

[Trenloe]

Important to note that latest best practices are to not use functions embedded in databasenode objects like node.getNodeName() in favor of DB.getNodeName(node)

Note - it doesn't appear that DB.getNodeName(node) is a documented API function (and it's not used in the latest test CoreRPG). DB.getName appears to be the replacement, but it's not documented yet. DB.getPath(node) can be used (based off current documentation). I've updated my example code above.

[peterb]

Get the path string to some database node within the charsheet and then use something like the following.

In this code, sPath is the full dot seperated database path to something within the character sheet - you can get this with DB.getPath(databasenode)

local sSplitNode = StringManager.split(sPath, ".")[1];
local nodeChar = nil;
if sSplitNode[1] and sSplitNode[2] then
	nodeChar = DB.findNode(sSplitNode[1] .. "." .. sSplitNode[2]);
end

Nice! Thanks!

[Moon Wizard]

Yes, the correct API should be DB.getPath (for the full path) and DB.getName (for the local node name). [DB.getNodeName was an old name, replaced by DB.getPath.]

Regards,
JPG