[Question] Can pydcs_export.lua export in a format that could be exploited by javascript code? about dcs HOT 4 CLOSED

Of course this can be done, but I'm absolutly lacking the time to do it for you.
But my best advice would be to copy the lua export script and to change it to export a JSON file.
Another way would be to use python reflection to get the data out of the the python module, but a bit more python knowledge is needed for that.

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Thank you for taking the time to reply :)
I've been looking into reflection but like you said, some extra python knowledge is required and I'm still at the part where I forget to str() the stuff I try to print and I get errors, so we're not there yet.

I'll try to modify the script then, to make it output JSON instead. What do I have to do to make the script run? Just put the .lua file in DCS's saved games folder and it'll automatically be picked up by dcs and executed on startup or do I have to register it somewhere? How do I trigger the export/execution of the script?

Again, thnk you for taking the time, I really appreciate it.

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it is somewhat documented in the header of the script:

-- execute(dofile) this script at the end of
-- of 'DCS World\MissionEditor\modules\me_mission.lua'
-- base.dofile("C:\\Users\\peint\\Documents\\dcs\\tools\\pydcs_export.lua")

Then you just start dcs and the script will run, if you have an error in your code DCS will get stuck on startup and
the error can usually be found in the dcs log .txt file (somewhere in the Saved Games/DCS) folder.

It is pretty cumbersome this way, because always restarting DCS takes some time, but I didn't find another way yet.

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Oh thank you for explaining it how it works, I didn't understand if èxecute(dofile)` was something I had to do or if the comment was telling me it is what it does already. Now i get it. I'll look into it when I can. Thank you.

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