Video Tutorial - Creating a Script so Players Can Ping Themselves on a Map

If you've ever wished your players could click a button to send a ping and center their view on their character's token, this video will show you how - https://youtu.be/qqCk0sKYhr4

@Nick, I'm missing something. The characterList is empty. I get "Which character?" but no chat menu buttons.

I got it to work. I created a new game with just a few tokens. My other game must have some inconsistencies. I did notice, however, that if the playerName has a space, it should be quoted. I added backslash quotes (\") before and after playerName.

            sendChat("PingMeAPI","/w \"" + playerName + "\" Which character?<br/>"+pingList);
                                      ^                   ^

thanks for the video series nick, following on youtube (i'm colbruce on youtube)

Crimson Prime said:

I got it to work. I created a new game with just a few tokens. My other game must have some inconsistencies. I did notice, however, that if the playerName has a space, it should be quoted. I added backslash quotes (\") before and after playerName.

            sendChat("PingMeAPI","/w \"" + playerName + "\" Which character?<br/>"+pingList);
                                      ^                   ^

In Javascript, you can use different quote types to nest quotes within a string, like

sendChat("PingMeAPI",'/w "' + playerName + '" Which character?<br/>'+pingList);

You can also use string literal (aka template literal) syntax which uses the weird backticks (`), and then nest code within ${}, like so

sendChat("PingMeAPI",`/w "${playerName}" Which character?<br/>`+pingList);

The latter seems clunky at first, but the more you use, the more you appreciate how powerful and flexible it is.

@Crimson - thanks for pointing that out, I'll update the code to account for the spaces in the player's name

@Gold - glad you like them!

@GiGs - I didn't know about string literals before - those are definitely the way to go. Thanks!

You're welcome Nick, but I realise I forgot to include the quotes inside the string literal in that example. Have just edited the post.

String literals are so powerful and flexible, the more you use them the more you'll wonder how you got by without them.

I've used something similar when I was coding in Python, but I didn't know what they were called. They definitely make life easier! Thanks again!