Can ACS take strings from the linedef panel?

[Hipshot]

I was searching for this, but there's just so much information around, I'm not sure how to pin point the solution, if there's one...

Something like that?

script "window" (str NAME) { SetLineTexture(100,SIDE_FRONT,TEXTURE_MIDDLE,"textures/NAME.png"); SetLineTexture(100,SIDE_BACK,TEXTURE_MIDDLE,"textures/NAME.png"); }

Gives me an error, int works well ofc.

[Player701]

First of all, I'm pretty sure you don't have to explicitly add the folder name and extension when supplying a texture name to SetLineTexture: e.g. "textures/NAME.png" instead of just "NAME".

And second, I'm also quite sure that ACS scripts do not support string arguments. I'm afraid this cannot be worked around entirely, but depending on your use case, you may want to use a function instead of a script. This will work:

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function void window(str textureName)
{
    SetLineTexture(100,SIDE_FRONT,TEXTURE_MIDDLE,textureName);
    SetLineTexture(100,SIDE_BACK,TEXTURE_MIDDLE,textureName);
}

Obviously, you can only call this function from other scripts, and not directly from the map, but perhaps you don't even need the latter? In case you do, you are still limited to passing ints as arguments to your script, but you can create a mapping from integer constants to texture names:

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#define TEX_SOMETEX1 1
#define TEX_SOMETEX2 2
...

script "window" (int textureIndex)
{
    str textureName;
    
    switch (textureIndex)
    {
        case TEX_SOMETEX1:
            textureName = "SOMETEX1";
            break;
        case TEX_SOMETEX2:
            textureName = "SOMETEX2";
            break;
        ...
        default:
            terminate; // Or use some default texture name instead
    }
    
    SetLineTexture(100,SIDE_FRONT,TEXTURE_MIDDLE,textureName);
    SetLineTexture(100,SIDE_BACK,TEXTURE_MIDDLE,textureName);
}

Note that this is still not very convenient, as you have to use the raw numerical values for arguments when setting up the "script execute" special in the map editor, instead of the named constants you've #defined in your ACS code. But at least it works.