Communicate from vlua to gelua

We have the option to communicate from gelua to vlua using mailboxes, but I was not able to figure this out the other way around.

Maybe I am stuck somewhere else.

Here is some context of what I want to achieve:

On the event onInventoryPreRemoveVehicleObject I want to store the current beamstate of the vehicle using beamstate.save()

However veh:queueLuaCommand() seems to put that command at the end of the execution stack which will then cause the vehicle being removed BEFORE this command could be issued.

Is there a way to call this function without using queueLuaCommand() by direcly accessing vlua? Basically I want to communicate that beamstate.save() is done and then continue with the processing inside gelua.

Even more context: source

 

• obj:queueGameEngineLua('myLuaCode()') (from VLUA)
  

Source: BeamNG Documentation

 

Unfortunately that is "asynchronous" or queued, rather. I mean it's the same method just the other way around.
If you have your code like this:
print("A")
obj:queueGameEngineLua('print("B")')
print("C")

The output will be
A
C
B
which is not ideal for my case.

I am hooking into an event where I want to save the vehicle state.
After the event callback is finished the vehicle will be removed.
Meaning if I use the method above, the vehicle saving will be queued, then the vehicle gets removed and after that it will be saved (which obviousely fails)

Maybe I misunderstood your answer.

 

Oh okay, so i misunderstood your question. Sorry, i don't know how to help,but usually some people on the Modding for Dummies discord know a bit better, so i recommend you ask there maybe
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And have you tried making it wait for your command to finish before unloading somehow? That would fix the async issue i would guess

 

Yes, usually I would implement something along the lines of:

Code:

M.isCompleted = false
local function checkIsCompleted()
  while not M.isCompleted do --busy wait

  end
end

local function run()
   object:queueLuaCommand("myModule.isCompleted = true")
   checkIsCompleted()
end

But this will never terminate. I would need a proper method of communicating between veh and ge

Unfortunately I don't use discord anymore, so I have to stick to the forums

 

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I do think it is probably possible by using coroutines, with beam's job system and some callback. Im sorry that i dont have an exact solution, but its probably worth looking into that. If that doesn't work, it is probably not possible, at least not by hooking onInventoryPreRemoveVehicleObject

 

I managed to work around this issue by overwriting the function that removes the vehicles with my own function. I then call the original function afterwards.

For reference: source code

Thanks for your help!