I’d like to declare and set a global xpEngine object to use in my global scripts file. I don’t want to instantiate a new engine, just grab the reference for it so I don’t have to pass the Engine ref as a parameter to nearly every function.
The closest I’ve gotten is to call a “SetPublic” function at the start of every event but that kind of defeats the purpose a bit, ideally it should be contained to the global scripts entirely. Any ideas?
Pictured below is the “SetPublic” method
And this is how I’d like it to work
I’m trying to do exactly the same thing you are. It’s a small thing but since “print” debugging is about all we have, I use it a lot and the extra typing time adds up (as well as remembering the , 0 on the end). I haven’t found a solution yet though, a way to retrieve the active engine (the one provided in all the project functions) from the global script. Or more directly I guess, a way to just call debugMessage directly instead of as a function on Engine.
print(“Hello”)
is just way easier than
engine.DebugMessage(“Hello”, 0)
when you’re typing that dozens or potentially hundreds of times a day.
For now the best I can come up with is a slightly shorter global function called like msg(engine, “Hello”)
