Including a file from the server

[maihym 12]

So Im trying to pull an entire file from the server for the client to use. Does anyone know of a way to do this? Essentially I want to use #include somehow to pull the entire file but without using public/global variables.

[HazJ 1288]

Note: You can't execVM that on the client. It's on server. What you can do is PV function to clients instead. You can also use remoteExec command.

[maihym 12]

1 minute ago, HazJ said:

Note: You can't execVM that on the client. It's on server. What you can do is PV function to clients instead. You can also use remoteExec command.

So this is what I've essentially done so far. I made a folder called "Client" on my server and inside there I copied the original files from the client side into that directory. Then I made a function called "client_fnc_pullFileFromServer" and that is the code below:

/*
	File: fn_pullFileFromServer.sqf
	Description: Pull entire files from the server and send them to the cliet.
	Author: Maihym
*/
_file = _this select 0;
_start = _file splitString "\";
_start set [0,""];
_start set [1,""];
_file = _start joinString "";

_return = [_file] remoteExec ["#include",2];
_return;

Then I insert this code into the file that I copied from the client to the server.

_fuckyou = [__FILE__] remoteExec ["client_fnc_pullFileFromServer",2]; _fuckyou;

So far it has worked on most files but there are some files that by doing this break the client because remoteExec can't execute fast enough. I just did this for fun and to see if I can find some sort of alternative to encrypting or obfuscating code to protect my mission file from thiefs.

[HazJ 1288]

What?!

_return = [_file] remoteExec ["#include",2];

That won't work. You can't #include or execVM files located on the server, to the client. Have your client functions on the server and PV them to clients or remoteExec to the client you want.

[Tajin 348]

#include is part of the preprocessor... as in it happens BEFORE scripts are beeing run. You can't use it like that.

You could just make those functions public variables. Simple.

 

 

"client_fnc_pullFileFromServer"

I certainly wouldn't feel safer with a function like that ...

[maihym 12]

6 hours ago, HazJ said:

What?!

_return = [_file] remoteExec ["#include",2];

That won't work. You can't #include or execVM files located on the server, to the client. Have your client functions on the server and PV them to clients or remoteExec to the client you want.

 

2 hours ago, Tajin said:

#include is part of the preprocessor... as in it happens BEFORE scripts are beeing run. You can't use it like that.

You could just make those functions public variables. Simple.

 

 

"client_fnc_pullFileFromServer"

I certainly wouldn't feel safer with a function like that ...

Well so far I've been able to use this to replace my init file and I didn't plan on doing this to every file. It works right now but like I said not for every file. For example if I use this on my init player local file it breaks the server but this is just a test.

[xjoker_ 25]

20 hours ago, maihym said:

 

 It works right now but like I said not for every file. 

 

???? 

It can't even work you're using remoteExec from the server, to the server ( '2' as last parameter ) so you send nothing to clients 

[maihym 12]

2 hours ago, xjoker_ said:

 

???? 

It can't even work you're using remoteExec from the server, to the server ( '2' as last parameter ) so you send nothing to clients 

I use returns

[freak69 5]

lol no mate, whatever you think you are doing. You are not doing that.

 

This
_return = [_file] remoteExec ["#include",2];

 

doesn't work at all.

However it might run the init.sqf (which is probably your _file in this case) as the preprocessor already does it.

If you want to have files on your server sent to the client, you can only do it with an external .dll

 

besides that you can not use files from the server on the client.

 

BUT

 

you can use / execute the code from within files on the server, from the client.

 

E.g. by preCompiling thus code into a variable -> function and remoteExecuting that function on the client