Javascript & performTask (%par1 and %par2 problems)

[kitze]

Finally the "include jQuery" bug is fixed in the latest beta, and now i can finally execute performTask from a javascript file, but the %pars are going nuts!

I lost ~2 hours hunting "my" bug but it looks like Tasker has some problems with parameters and sometimes it doesn't pass them.

I'm trying

function simulatePerformTask(stringOne, stringTwo){

           alert(stringTwo);

           flash(stringTwo);

           performTask("Testing paremeters", 10, stringOne, stringTwo);

}

and alert alerts the string but flash says that the second parameter is "undefined".

What could be the problem?

Thanks!

[kitze]

I found the bug i think, this only happens when i'm using a String.prototype, i have few of them declared in the beginning of my js file, and the script is fine until i use some of them on a string. Then the string becomes "undefined" for Tasker, but how the hell does it display it in an "alert" but not in a "flash"? It's really weird...

[Pent]

I found the bug i think, this only happens when i'm using a String.prototype,

What's that ? I'm not a JS programmer.
 

i have few of them declared in the beginning of my js file, and the script is fine until i use some of them on a string. Then the string becomes "undefined" for Tasker, but how the hell does it display it in an "alert" but not in a "flash"? It's really weird...

Probably because alert is initially handled by the JS engine.

Pent

[kitze]

String.prototype is when you modify the JavaScript String object to add more functions to it, for example

String.prototype.replaceWordWithKitty = function(word){
           return this.replace(word, "kitty");
}
var sentence = " hello what are you doing";
sentence = sentence.replaceWordWithKitty("hello");

This will make replace the word "hello" with "kitty" in the sentence var.

[Danielo515]

Hello,

Do you know if it is possible to access a task parameters from JS? I'm asking here because looks like you have fought with it.

[Odysseos]

I think you must use in your javascript code something like this:

var a = par[0]

var b = par[1]

where par[0] and par[1] are the variables %par1 and %par respectively (remember that in javascript "counting" starts from 0).

[Danielo515]

Yes! Exactly. Thank you. I'm skilled at javascript, but not in Tasker. I did not know that task parameters were arrays. Thanks again