Coding problem

[linkmaster]

Not sure this is the right area for this...but am I missing something...

this piece of code

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function main()
{
	LavishSettings:AddSet[myprices]
	LavishSettings[myprices]:AddSet[General]
	LavishSettings[myprices]:AddSet[Sell]
	LavishSettings[myprices]:AddSet[Buy]

	variable settingsetref General=${LavishSettings[myprices].FindSet[General]}
	variable settingsetref Buy=${LavishSettings[myprices].FindSet[Buy]}
	variable settingsetref Sell=${LavishSettings[myprices].FindSet[Sell]}

	General:AddSetting[Buy Enabled,1]
	General:AddSetting[Sell Enabled,1]
	Sell:AddSetting[Name,Totem of the Chameleon]
	Sell:AddSetting[MinPrice,77.0000]
	Buy:AddSetting[Name,Totem of the Chameleon]
	Buy:AddSetting[MinPrice,50.0000]
	LavishSettings[myprices]:Export[myprices.xml]
}

returns

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!-- Generated by LavishSettings v2 -->
<InnerSpaceSettings>
</InnerSpaceSettings>

in myprices.xml

[linkmaster]

Never mind a lot more research and I discovered the problem...

[agitated]

I'm having this problem with code based entirely off the wiki and getting the same result...what was the solution?

I see in myprices.iss there are no AddSetting statements. Is the LavishSettings wiki incorrect?

[Lax]

The wiki is not incorrect. The code the guy used above was not working because "variable" statements are executed BEFORE other statements in the function, regardless of their position. Without knowing this, the OP put the statements after other initialization, thinking that the LavishSettings[x]:AddSet[y] would happen before creating the settingsetref variables. However, they did not, and therefore General, Buy, and Sell did not reference a real set, and therefore no settings were added to LavishSettings (note: this is why most of the "variable" statements in the LavishSettings wiki do not initialize the variable with the set on the same line! I just edited one in the LavishSettings LavishScript Usage Walkthrough to help with this potential source of confusion -- additionally, I have updated the Variables section of the LavishScript language and engine overview http://www.lavishsoft.com/wiki/index.ph ... #Variables to explain in detail the behavior of the variable keyword). Empty sets are not written in LavishSettings exports, and therefore the General, Sell and Buy sets, which were successfully created, were not written to file.

Now... what code are you having trouble with, so I can explain to you why it is not working? Without your code I can't really guess, unless you made the same mistake.

[agitated]

Thanks for the info Lax.

I made exactly the same mistake. The info in the wiki before you updated was in fact all there, just subtly so.

My code is working now.