Scripting in OpenMPT

[Saga Musix]

Can it open a textfile, read its content, parse it, and perform actions based on that?

Lua has a file I/O package, yes, and I will enable all the default Lua packages.

Can it also get information FROM the tracker?

Yes, that is the entire point of the API.

Oh, and if possible, can the script generate a dialog with buttons and perform actions based on custom button presses?

Oh come on, it's even being discussed in the first post on this page...

[LPChip]

Okay, I admit, that last one I got carried away in enthusiasm and it was a bit of teasing on my end.

[Saga Musix]

I like how my post is now referring to itself recursively due to the page break.

[LPChip]

I like how my post is now referring to itself recursively due to the page break.

Hahahaha I hadn't noticed. I read first post of this topic, not page...

[JanKXSKI]

I am very sorry to revive an old thread, but any update on this? I cannot find references to scripting in the doc/version history. I would like to export pattern data from OpenMPT to json.

[Saga Musix]

I work on this every now and then, but there's not so much progress. It's a huge and difficult task. The current state can be tried at https://github.com/sagamusix/openmpt but I don't remember if accessing pattern data currently works. libopenmpt might currently be an easier / more stable way to get pattern data out of module files, or maybe copying all patterns to the clipboard and then transforming the text data to json with an external tool.

[JanKXSKI]

Thank you for the reply and the effort! I'll look into the alternatives you suggested.