How do you use this command?



I found it in the hs_doc and in a tutorial I was reading. This command is useful so I want to be able to use it for testing other scripts I want to make. However, I can't get inspect to print a thing. I've tried several variations of this script but only the sv_say prints anything when the script runs:

(global real variable 5) 

(script startup test 
	(sv_say "lets print our variable") 
	(inspect variable) 
)

It compiles and runs fine but the output from inspect never shows up on the screen. I got this script out of a tutorial by Multix that used to be on the BioCroc forums. Its on this website somewhere in a pdf.

Can anyone help me get a working script that uses inspect so I can figure out how its supposed to work? Help would be appreciated.

Thanks for your time, Tarzan. I went ahead and put that line in but the variable still isn't being printed.

(global real variable 5) 

(script startup test 
	(sleep 300)
	(sv_say "lets print our variable") 
	(inspect variable) 
)

I also tried making it continuous.

(global real variable 5) 

(script continuous test 
	(sleep 300)
	(sv_say "lets print our variable") 
	(inspect variable) 
)

Everything compiles and part of it even runs. The sv_say works everytime but theres just no variable getting printed out.

I'm going to try this script in another map to see if that helps, though I don't why it should. If that doesn't work then I'm out of ideas again.

*Edit*

I went ahead and tried it in a bg scenario file. Compiled it and the sv_say works ingame but inspect does not. This is driving me crazy. Do I need to reinstall something? Everything else works though, even some of the other scripts I've tried. I use Kornman's version of the Hek.

Edited by SGWraith on Aug 7, 2007 at 02:03 PM

*Edit 2*

I just tried this version:

(global string variable "5") 

(script continuous test 
	(sleep 300)
	(sv_say "lets print our variable") 
	(inspect variable) 
	(sv_say "Now trying with sv_say")
	(sv_say variable)
)

Inspect still doesn't print but at least I know the variable was made. I've tried compiling the scripts with regular sapien, starting halo in devmode, and the results are still the same. I'm starting to wonder if this command is dedicated server only but that doesn't make much sense since it isn't labeled that way in the hs_doc and no tutorial that used it ever said so.



Edited by SGWraith on Aug 7, 2007 at 02:35 PM

That did the trick. Manually typing it got it to show me the variable so I guess it ignores that command in scripts or is displaying it only in the console. Thanks for your help, Tarzan, I really appreciated it.