What's wrong with my sintax?

[12p]

Gonna update and fix my 3D Texts resource.

I'm fixing the code for loading texts from XML files of a resource that is started.

The trouble is "Bad argument @ xmlNodeGetChildren ( in this case, at position 5 )

function loadText ( resource ) 
    if not resource and source then resource = source  
    elseif not resource and not source then return end 
    if not fileExists ( ":" .. getResourceName ( resource ) .."/texts.xml" ) then return end 
    local node = xmlLoadFile ( ":" .. getResourceName ( resource ) .."/texts.xml" ) 
    for i, t in ipairs ( xmlNodeGetChildren ( node ) ) do 
    --Down this part is done, no need to show it because it has no trouble 
end 
  
addEventHandler ( "onResourceStart", getRootElement ( ), loadText ) 

The XML file I'm loading is this (it's called "texts.xml"):

<texts> 
   <text posX="4000" posY="-2729.75" posZ="6" text="Sección 1 por Benxamix2" red="64", green="128" blue="0" alpha="255" scale="2" font="bankgothic" /> 
</texts> 

What's wrong?

Edited October 22, 2011 by Guest

[arezu]

use debugs like this to see whats wrong:

  
    function loadText ( resource ) 
        if not resource and source then resource = source 
        elseif not resource and not source then return end 
        if not fileExists ( ":" .. getResourceName ( resource ) .."/texts.xml" ) then return end 
        local node = xmlLoadFile ( ":" .. getResourceName ( resource ) .."/texts.xml" ) 
if(node == false)then 
outputChatBox("error loading file") 
end 
        for i, t in ipairs ( xmlNodeGetChildren ( node ) ) do 
        --This part is done, no need to show it because it has no trouble 
    end 
      
    addEventHandler ( "onResourceStart", getRootElement ( ), loadText ) 
  

[12p]

Dude, don't you think that fileExists already does that?

[12p]

So... What's wrong? Nobody can tell?

[Castillo]

Is the resource where you call that script from in the acl? and has access to this function: ModifyOtherObjects?

Because, I've loaded a texts.xml in a resource and works perfectly.

[12p]

In acl.xml I always use at Admin:

<object name="resource.*" /> 

That's obviously not the problem.

[Castillo]

Is texts.xml in the meta.xml? I don't get why should work here and not for you.

[12p]

No. But actually I added it to the meta.xml before and the resource was unable to be started when it was server-side O_o, so I had to take it off. Yes in both sides, client and server. Doesn't do anything.

[Castillo]

This is how I got it working:

Resource: 1 with the script to load the files.

Resource: 2 with texts.xml file.

It works with no problems.

[12p]

Okay. I got the same thing as yours and does not work. Hurray! I will try to use another resource with only texts.xml and meta.xml to see if that works.

EDIT. I don't know how the hell I did it, but is fixed. Thank you anyway, dude.