what's the difference here?

[human fly]

kitcolour=L(panel:getComponent("keydata"..i-1):getPropertyString("uiButtonTextColourOff"))
or
kitcolour=panel:getModulatorByName("keydata"..i-1):getComponent():getProperty("uiButtonTextColourOff")

i think on the 2nd one, i could skip to getComponent() directly. but i’m not sure about
L( ) macros – are they mainly for strings?
both of these are working. i just ended up with them in two separate methods.
(am in total spaghetti-land atm lol)

[Possemo]

L() prepares a string for Lua string manipulations (that’s why it is called “L”). In some cases when you get a string from a component it won’t work without L() sometimes it does. I guess it depends what you want to do with the string. Commands like e.g. string.gmatch probably need a “converted” string by L().

[human fly]

thanks, i think i’d figured out it was just for strings,
as i was unable to – i think – do it with a regular ‘property’.

oh… what’s string.gmatch? haven’t seen that one.

[human fly]

for info, it does of course also work going straight to
the component, as:
kitcolour=panel:getComponent("keydata"..i-1):getProperty("uiButtonTextColourOff")
(just checked)

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