User:Shaman/Development Tips

This page outlines some general knowledge collected over the years. Mostly this is my notes.

Really, Really Big things

• TEST WITH LOCAL ZK-TEST.SDZ!!!! REALLY.
• Do NOT test cawidgets with local replacement.
• Multiplayer tests can be done by uploading an sdz to maps on site

Cawidgets

• DO NOT USE SPEED UPS HERE. I don't know why exactly, but GoogleFrog says it's bad and it tends to lead to bad things.
• Probably not good to use speedups anywhere in the top level dir of luaui or luarules. Idk.
• You can make derivatives of other callins with it. Useful!
• Alters the way widgets work.

Callins.lua

• This file is a red herring. Nobody probably knows what it does.

Camain.lua

• Who knows what it does.

Cache.lua

• You can poison (see: changing the return values) of functions with this. This changes affects everything.
• Don't attempt to override names with it. This just leads to people losing the ability to chat -.-

Unitdefs

• These have a different style for... reasons.
• Double space instead of tab.

Git

• Don't use PR's to update your fork.
• Use git rebasing to update work.
• Use git rebase -i HEAD~# to squash stuff.
• Squash your commits down a bit for redundant things (but not ones that significantly alter things)

Callins

• Update uses FPS to trigger, and GameFrame does not.