I need to find the parent object for a username

[Tiskelion]

Hello fellow LUA-users :D ,

I was wondering if someone could help me with this:

I have a function that gets a string (sUser is not a User object) that contains a users nick,  and i need to determine what User object it belongs to.

I've tried doing it this way:

function GetUserObject(sUser)

	SendToAll("Finding parent object for "..sUser)

	local sReturnUser
	
	for _,sUserObject in FrmHub:GetOnlineNonOperators() do

		if sUser == sUserObject.sName then
	
			sReturnUser = sUserObject
			
			break
			
		end
		
	end
	
	SendToAll("Success!")
	
	return sReturnUser
	
end

but then the function doesn't seem to process anything because the "Success!" message is never seen in mainchat and any script after the GetUserObject call is not processed...  ?(

If anybody can point out where im making a stupid mistake  please do  :rolleyes:



I forgot to say that ofcourse there is only me in my testhub, so it wont find any non operator users, but even when i change GetOnlineNonOperators() to GetOnlineOperators() it still doesn't work :(





Greets,

Tiskelion

[bastya_elvtars]

If you want to fetch the userobject when only the nick is available:

local user=GetItemByName(nick)

Explanation here.

[Tiskelion]

Thanks for the ultra-fast reply! :D

I'm going to test that right now.



works like a dream :D



Greets,

Tiskelion