Understanding Errors
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| Lua: Understanding Errors |
 Description: | Aims to teach a little about diagnosing Lua errors. |
 Original Author: | Rambo_6 |
 Created: | 26th March 2008 |
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Clientside or Serverside?
If an error is written in blue, it means a portion of serverside code is erroring. This is usually more severe than a clientside error since it affects everyone in the server. Errors written in yellow are clientside, and usually not very problematic.
Interpreting Errors
Here is an example of an error: LS: Error: mygame/gamemode/init.lua:23: attempt to call method 'SendHint' (a nil value)
LS indicates that the error happened serverside. It then shows the file that it happened in, followed by the line number where the error occurred.
Attempt to call method 'SendHint' (a nil value) tells us that it failed when trying to call the function SendHint. Then it tells us that SendHint is a nil value. This means you're attempting to use a function that doesn't exist. Using the line number supplied by the error, you can go to the line in your Lua script and fix it.
Error: mygame/gamemode/init.lua is where it tells you that the error occurs on the server-side Lua script (init.lua)
And the :23: is the line number that the error is occuring on.
