I need help with Debug Mode

[JDMatson]

I'm trying to mod a station. I tried to use sysCreateStation to test it but I always get the error "mismatched open parenthesis". Is there a tutorial for debug mode somewhere? If not, can someone post a working example of exactly what to type?

[RPC]

Post what you've done here, it will help with debugging. As for mismatched opening parentheses, it means you're missing an opening or closing parentheses. Check to see that the number of opening and cloasing parentheses are the same.

[JDMatson]

so far I've tried:
sysCreateStation
(sysCreateStation &stCorporateEnclave; gPlayerShip
(sysCreateStation &stCorporateEnclave; gPlayerShip)
(sysCreateStation &stCorporateEnclave; gPlayerShip))
and variants on the above.

(help 'sysCreateStation)
returns this
(sysCreateStation classID posVector) -> station
which looks like what I have above, but obviously isn't quite the same.

I read something that said that gPlayerShip wouldn't work with sysCreateStation, so I tried to substitute some functions in there, but it doesn't make a difference for me yet. Everything results in mismatched parentheses.

[RPC]

Try (ObjGetPos gSource) or (Objgetpos gplayership) instead of gplayership. It should return a vector.

[alterecco]

Everything results in mismatched parentheses.

You probably have mismatched parens somewhere in the entire document. Go through the code painstakingly and make sure they all are matched (that is, every opened paren must be closed) .

[JDMatson]

I think I wasn't clear on what my problem is. I shall elaborate. I've stripped down a copy of the corporate enclave prior to building it back up as a custom station. The custom station spawns and works, as does the stock corporate enclave. I've been using a modded ship with lots of fuel and map roms to hunt down spawned stations to test them. Twice now, though, I've made it to St. Kats without one of my stations spawning even though it's currently set to common for system levels 5 and under. So I decided to use Debug Mode instead, but I can't get sysCreateStation to work in the debug window. I've tried it with my station, the corporate enclave and the tinker gathering. No matter what I type in the window, I get a mismatch error.

You probably have mismatched parens somewhere in the entire document. Go through the code painstakingly and make sure they all are matched (that is, every opened paren must be closed) .

You may be right, but that would keep the station from spawning at all, wouldn't it?

Try (ObjGetPos gSource) or (Objgetpos gplayership) instead of gplayership. It should return a vector.

I'll keep that in mind if I ever get the parens problem fixed.

[RPC]

Well, worst case scenario would be to pastebin and have us look at it

[sdw195]

so far I've tried:
sysCreateStation
(sysCreateStation &stCorporateEnclave; gPlayerShip
(sysCreateStation &stCorporateEnclave; gPlayerShip)
(sysCreateStation &stCorporateEnclave; gPlayerShip))
and variants on the above.

(help 'sysCreateStation)
returns this
(sysCreateStation classID posVector) -> station
which looks like what I have above, but obviously isn't quite the same.

I read something that said that gPlayerShip wouldn't work with sysCreateStation, so I tried to substitute some functions in there, but it doesn't make a difference for me yet. Everything results in mismatched parentheses.

the reason for the mismatch error is because of a bug in the debug console (sysCreateStation &stCorporateEnclave; gPlayerShip) would work fine but it thinks that the ; is a comment marker so all it is seeing is (sysCreateStation &stCorporateEnclave;

at least thats what i remember form when i got that error in the debug console, sorry

[JDMatson]

That is exactly what I needed to know. Using the hex code for the station has got it working. Thanks so much. I'm sorry you guys had to spend the whole day helping me.

[alterecco]

Doh! That is so obvious! XD Nice catch sdw195!!

[digdug]

Doh! That is so obvious! XD Nice catch sdw195!!

lol, yes
you can only use UNID numbers in the console 0xAAAABBBB