Trying to make GUMSHOE-Roll20.js work for Night's Black Agents

Let's leave aside for a moment how Gumshoe actually works. Once I figure this out I think I can make the script adhere to the rules. I'm trying to edit Ramblurr's (Casey Link's) GUMSHOE-Roll20.js so it 1) works for Night's Black Agents and 2) does what I want it to. Unfortunately, I have very little idea how javascript works, so it's kind of like trying to reverse engineer alien technology. Take, for instance, these lines of code: var gumABILITIES = [ {name:'hand_to_hand',pretty:'Hand to Hand'}, ... ] How would I output the "pretty" term if I wanted to?  I don't want to dump the whole .js file here, but it looks like the variable %s is somehow set to "archaeology" when one tries to roll the skill, so the roll looks like "Rolling %s" in the code and outputs as "Rolling hand_to_hand". How would I make it say "Rolling Hand to Hand" instead? Eventually I want to make the buttons just spend for Investigative skills, and then customize the CSS so it looks like a Night's Black Agents sheet but this is bugging me more. Thanks C

chatty said: Take, for instance, these lines of code: var gumABILITIES = [ {name:'hand_to_hand',pretty:'Hand to Hand'}, ... ] How would I output the "pretty" term if I wanted to? gumABILITIES is an array, and each element in the array is an object with two properties. To get one of the objects, you would use gumABILITIES[N] , where N is some number (or variable with a number as its value). 0 is the first index in the array, while gumABILITIES.length - 1 is the last index in the array. Accessing a property of an object can be done with myObject.myProperty  (assuming the property name doesn't have any illegal characters like space or hyphen), or myObject['myProperty']  (you could also have a variable with the property name as its value, instead of a constant string). Putting them together, for example, the second object in the array's "pretty" value would be gumABILITIES[1].pretty . chatty said: I don't want to dump the whole .js file here, but it looks like the variable %s is somehow set to "archaeology" when one tries to roll the skill, so the roll looks like "Rolling %s" in the code and outputs as "Rolling hand_to_hand". How would I make it say "Rolling Hand to Hand" instead? The script appears to be implementing  NodeJS's util.format function. Given a string like "Rolling %s", you could get "Rolling hand_to_hand" with format("Rolling %s", gumABILITIES[0].name)  and you could get "Rolling Hand to Hand" with format("Rolling %s", gumABILITIES[0].pretty) .

Thanks! I'm about to go away for the weekend, but I'll try working with this when I get some time in front of a computer.