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RoosterDragon
ab28e6a75a Improve Lua type documentation and bindings.
The ExtractEmmyLuaAPI utility command, invoked with `--emmy-lua-api`, produces a documentation file that is used by the [OpenRA Lua Language Extension](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=openra.vscode-openra-lua) to provide documentation and type information is VSCode and VSCode compatible editors when editing the Lua scripts.

We improve the documentation and types produced by this utility in a few ways:
- Require descriptions to be provided for all items.
- Fix the type definitions of the base engine types (cpos, wpos, wangle, wdist, wvec, cvec) to match with the actual bindings on the C# side. Add some extra bindings for these types to increase their utility.
- Introduce ScriptEmmyTypeOverrideAttribute to allow the C# side of the bindings to provide a more specific type. The utility command now requires this to be used to avoid accidentally exporting poor type information.
- Fix a handful of scripts where the new type information revealed warnings.

The ability to ScriptEmmyTypeOverrideAttribute allows parameters and return types to provide a more specific type compared to the previous, weak, type definition. For example LuaValue mapped to `any`, LuaTable mapped to `table`, and LuaFunction mapped to `function`. These types are all non-specific. `any` can be anything, `table` is a table without known types for its keys or values, `function` is a function with an unknown signature.

Now, we can provide specific types. , e.g. instead of `table`, ReinforcementsGlobal.ReinforceWithTransport is able to specify `{ [1]: actor, [2]: actor[] }` - a table with keys 1 and 2, whose values are an actor, and a table of actors respectively. The callback functions in MapGlobal now have signatures, e.g. instead of `function` we have `fun(a: actor):boolean`. In UtilsGlobal, we also make use of generic types. These work in a similar fashion to generics in C#. These methods operate on collections, we can introduce a generic parameter named `T` for the type of the items in those collections. Now the return type and callback parameters can also use that generic type. This means the return type or callback functions operate on the same type as whatever type is in the collection you pass in. e.g. Utils.Do accepts a collection typed as `T[]` with a callback function invoked on each item typed as `fun(item: T)`. If you pass in actors, the callback operates on an actor. If you pass in strings, the callback operates on a string, etc.

Overall, these changes should result in an improved user experience for those editing OpenRA Lua scripts in a compatible IDE.
2024-08-03 19:12:51 +03:00
abcdefg30
5bf7fe852c Remove the copyright year numbers 2023-01-11 11:58:54 +02:00
abcdefg30
6a31b1f9f3 Update the copyright header year 2022-05-28 00:35:10 -05:00
Andre Mohren
6810469634 Updated copyright years. 2021-06-29 18:33:21 -05:00
teinarss
4a1e4f3e16 Use expression body syntax 2021-03-07 13:00:52 +00:00
abcdefg30
23b3c237b7 Update the year numbers in all license headers to 2020 2020-01-05 17:00:34 +00:00
Paul Chote
674155a8dd Move ctor initializers to their own line. 2019-06-08 18:44:50 +02:00
abcdefg30
cadbd0d9ab Change the year number in all cs headers from 2018 to 2019 2019-01-26 23:15:21 +01:00
Arular101
8a60918841 Update copyright notice year to 2018 2018-01-17 00:47:34 +01:00
Paul Chote
78a3dcae85 Remove deprecated Lua APIs. 2017-02-19 14:10:39 +00:00
Taryn Hill
43317e0f5d Update copyright notice year to 2017 2016-12-31 23:46:13 -06:00
Paul Chote
e71225496b Clarify GPL version. 2016-02-21 16:30:48 +00:00
Paul Chote
b396965fd9 Update licence header year. 2016-02-21 16:27:31 +00:00
clemty
2bbc1fcda4 LUA and trait documentation fixes
- Typo in documentation ("proximitry").
- Add spaces between sentences.
- Remove most occurrences of "  " (two spaces) unless clearly used as indendation
- Punctuation (although no fullstop after filenames like "notifications.yaml").
2015-08-24 19:41:15 +02:00
Matthias Mailänder
cae889fb67 leave a warning for thirdparty scripters 2015-07-09 21:15:57 +02:00
Matthias Mailänder
43ddf14998 rename internal API for consistency 2015-07-09 12:41:52 +02:00
Matthias Mailänder
8d8d7ab8ea rename WRange to WDist in documentation 2015-07-09 12:36:29 +02:00
Matthias Mailänder
7447e0bf93 rename WRange to WDist 2015-07-09 10:55:38 +02:00
abcdefg30
8ca61aa917 Updated all year numbers 2015-01-09 21:18:05 +01:00
atlimit8
91b5ac5070 Move the core of OpenRA.Mods.RA.Scripting to OpenRA.Mods.Common.Scripting 2014-11-26 15:49:16 -06:00