Calling one API script from another

I have a API script where I am trying to call one script from another depending on certain conditions, I tried sending the !command using sendChat but it just puts it in chat without it actually triggering is there a different command I should be using?

on("chat:message", function(msg) { if (msg.type == "api" && msg.content.indexOf("!myapicommand") !== -1){ myFirstFuction(); }; }); myFirstFuction = function() { var myRandomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 100) + 1 if(myRandomNumber <= 50){ sendChat("API", "All you get is this.") return //Return without doing anything else }else{ sendChat("API", "All you get is this....and...") mySecondFuction(); }; }; mySecondFuction = function() { sendChat("API", "...you get this."); };

Maybe errors in that.... but hopefully you get the idea... you can split these into as many "script tabs" as you like as long as each event and function is all contained on one script tab.... those tabs only exist to aid building and debugging code (it functions as one really long script.) I have an event tab... a declarations tab... a common tab (for small things) and then tabs for larger more stand alone stuff as needed.

what if I have things in another script tab, can I send a command to call it like I would if I was typing it, like I saw you used sendChat("API" so I tried that with my message and it did not send it through, like I am currently in the !aoe script but I want to send a function to the !attack script I am trying to do it by var attackmessage = "!attack " + targetid + " " + sourceid + "AC 1d12 @{tohit} @{damage} 12 0"; var testname = selected.get('name') sendChat("API", attackmessage); but in chat I just get !attack -JAyYgq1cQj3C6llfbGk-JAzE-XiFoCzmwTXiy_c AC 1d12 tohit damage 12 0 so it is just typing it out in the chat window instead of the !attack api picking it up as it would if that command was written out in a macro, even if I copy and paste that line back into the chat window it will trigger the other api script.

I use sendChat("API", "whatever is to be said") so everyone can see it came from an API script and not a player. Be careful not to use sendChat with an "!" command... you can create an infinite loop. Below would be BAD. //DO NOT USE THIS on("chat:message", function(msg) { if (msg.type == "api"){ myFirstFuction(); }; }); mySecondFuction = function() { sendChat("API", "!anAPIcommand"); };

It doesn't work though it just types the command out in chat but it is not picked up by the other script as a chat event for whatever reason, it will just put !anAPIcommand in the chat window without triggering !anAPIcommand

Shrug... perhaps Riley nerfed it (which is likely a good thing.) Post your code and lets have a look.

as far as I know, you cannot trigger an API command with an output to chat from the api. what you need to do is call the applicable function directly within your script, not have it post the API command string to chat.

What this is supposed to do is grab targets in an certain range/parameters then pass those targets onto a api scipt that I currently use for attacks called !attack, it grabs the targets correctly but just spams !attack -JAzE17QA98xuD8azSA_ -JAzE-XiFoCzmwTXiy_c AC 1d12 tohit damage 12 0 !attack -JAyYgq1cQj3C6llfbGk -JAzE-XiFoCzmwTXiy_c AC 1d12 tohit damage 12 0 into the chat, I would like to send those commands to chat in a way that the !attack api will notice them as chat events and do its thing with the passed along info <a href="https://gist.github.com/stephenhudson/8118636" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/stephenhudson/8118636</a>

Michael H. said: as far as I know, you cannot trigger an API command with an output to chat from the api. what you need to do is call the applicable function directly within your script, not have it post the API command string to chat. Oh I know I have done it in that past... Riley must have nerfed it.

So I am using on("chat:message", function(msg) { if(msg.type == "api" && msg.content.toLowerCase().indexOf('!attack') !== -1) { to call my !attack message, it looks from your sample code that I need to somehow declare that as it's own separate function then make a new script when they do !attack to send it back to the original function?

var roll20API = roll20API || {}; roll20API.apiCommands = [ {description: "Area Of Effect.", long: "aoe", short: "aoe", process: "processAOE"}, {description: "Attack.", long: "attack", short: "atk", process: "processATK"}, ]; on("chat:message", function(msg) { if(msg.type != "api"){return;}; //Return and do nothing if its not an API command. if(msg.content.indexOf(' ') == -1){ roll20API.contentMessage = null; roll20API.contentCommand = msg.content.toLowerCase().substr(1, msg.content.toLowerCase().length); }else{ roll20API.contentMessage = msg.content.toLowerCase().substr(msg.content.toLowerCase().indexOf(' ') + 1); roll20API.contentCommand = msg.content.toLowerCase().substr(1, msg.content.toLowerCase().indexOf(' ') - 1); }; //get the API command as roll20API.contentCommand //get any message with the API command as roll20API.contentMessage var processToCall = undefined; _.each(roll20API.apiCommands, function(indexCommands) { if(indexCommands.long == roll20API.contentCommand || indexCommands.short == roll20API.contentCommand){ processToCall = indexCommands.process; }; }); //Loop through all the valid commands to find see what was given is found if(processToCall == undefined){return;}; var functionString = eval(processToCall); functionString(); }); processAOE = function() { sendChat("API", "processAOE triggered by \"!" + roll20API.contentCommand + "\" and using \"" + roll20API.contentMessage + "\"") }; processATK = function() { sendChat("API", "processATK triggered by \"!" + roll20API.contentCommand + "\" and using \"" + roll20API.contentMessage + "\"") };

That is pretty expandable.. and fairly clear (for me at least&lt;What I mean by that is I understand it... John has another way I don't "get") The array has a description, long and short version of the command and the process to call... add as many as you like. See if that gets you closer to what you want to do.

Could not get that to work like I wanted it to but I did find a clunky way of doing it for now I added an or statement to my !attack api looking for a type whisper or type api then I have the sendchat command start with a /w to me and it picks it up. I can figure something better out later but for now it will work. if(msg.type == "whisper" && msg.content.toLowerCase().indexOf('!attack') !== -1 || msg.type == "api" && msg.content.toLowerCase().indexOf('!attack') !== -1) {