On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 12:02:03PM +1200, Ralph Versteegen wrote:
> On 5 June 2010 08:11, James Paige <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > /script/gameover_script
> > /script/loadgame_script
> >
> > These are both ints. They store the id number of those script triggers.
> > What would be the consequence of storing the names of the scripts
> > instead?
> 
> A plottrigger already encodes the name of the script, not its id
> number. But because it's possible for these to be set by a script to a
> script id number (which won't correspond to a plottrigger if the
> script isn't a plotscript), storing the name of the script would
> probably be better. IIRC, the plottrigger also becomes useless if the
> name of the script changes (other than indicating in Custom that the
> script has gone missing), so trigger ID and name should be perfectly
> equivalent ways to store a script handle.
> 

So if I changed this to store a string, that would be a redundant, and 
wouldn't provide any actual benefit?

... or would it only be a benefit for old-style scripts and no-change 
for new-style scripts?

---
James
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