Invoking CEL and CELX - Scripts

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Invoking CEL and CELX - Scripts

Post #1by wahuwa » 21.10.2008, 14:09

Me: Newbee
OS: Windows XP SP3
Celestia: Version 1.5.1
Problem: I want Celestia to repeatedly execute scripts automatically time and again without interaction
Thread: Invoking CEL and CELX - Scripts
Question: Is there any possibility to invoke from a CELX script other CEL or CELX scripts and put them in a loop?
(e.g.: do while true
execute script1, script2 ...
end)
Is this the right way to resolve the problem? Or should I think of controlling Celestia from OS-Scripting (e.g. Batchfile)? But then I don't know how to give back control to the Batchfile from within Celestia script.
Hope having expressed myself clearly enough.
Thanks

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Re: Invoking CEL and CELX - Scripts

Post #2by Fenerit » 23.10.2008, 22:33

For half your question (how to "invoke" a CEL from CELX), see here:

http://shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=12702 (the code sections)
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Re: Invoking CEL and CELX - Scripts

Post #3by Vincent » 25.10.2008, 10:34

wahuwa wrote:Problem: I want Celestia to repeatedly execute scripts automatically time and again without interaction
Thread: Invoking CEL and CELX - Scripts
Question: Is there any possibility to invoke from a CELX script other CEL or CELX scripts and put them in a loop?
wahuwa,

The following lines allow you to launch one Celx script from within another:

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runscript = loadfile("script_filename")
runscript()

note: the script_filename path must refer to your celestia base folder.
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Re: Invoking CEL and CELX - Scripts

Post #4by wahuwa » 29.10.2008, 14:18

I got it! It works fine!
Thanks to Fenerit and Vincent!


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