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Console: support original prefixes

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#2,231 opened on Dec 11, 2024

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Description

A user reported:

Anyway, I figured console commands would help me, but anytime I try to use them I get an 'invalid syntax' kind of error.

As for the cheat, I just want to spawn the character. I both typed out and copy/pasted this: CLUAConsole:CreateCreature("UDSOLA01") I saw that EE may use the entry C:CreateCreature("UDSOLA01") instead. Could that work in gemrb? Tech stuff isn't really my forte.

We could strip all these prefixes (see CLUA Console subpages for the prefixes, eg. CLUAConsole:, ctrlaltdelete:) from the originals before parsing the command for real, just so it's more likely to work if anyone else tries, since many of the commands do have analogues in GUIScript functions.

It's all in gemrb/GUIScripts/Console.py.

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Research direction
Investigate the list of prefixes from the IESDP and modify Console.py to strip them before parsing commands.
Tech stack
python
Domain
game dev
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