passing strings from cgame to game

[Xamis]

getting frustrated trying to get this to work

I have a cvar (vmCvar_t gear ) in the config file that I can read using gear.string, from inside cg_ files, no problem there, but I need to pass that string to game files, specifically g_weapon.c and g_client.c. I am really struggling to get this to work.

I tried creating a variable in bg_ that I can use to hold the data, but when I print out the variable inside g_client.c it's value is NULL.
I have had no problems passing other types of data this way, but passing a string of characters just isn't working for me.

Any suggestions on how to accomplish this.

[^misantropia^]

Keep in mind that the client and server may run on different machines so global variables are definitely not the way to go. Grep the source for `CG_ConfigString` and `trap_SetConfigstring`, that'll show you how to pass data between them.

[Xamis]

So `CG_ConfigString` and `trap_SetConfigstring` both appear to pass info to cgame from game, server to client . The opposite of what I need. I needed to pass info from a cvar on the client to the server. I figured out how to do it, and it was very easy and straight forward. Look into Info_ValueForKey( ). I passed the info in the clientinfo config string.

[nexus024]

Does anyone know of another way a cvar could be passed from cgame to game without using Info_ValueForKey()?

[Eraser]

You oughta specify why the original solution is insufficient for you. Now it's kind of guessing what you need.

[nexus024]

I am trying to reverse engineer a mod in order to make mine compatible with it. I printf what gets passed through Info_ValueForKey and that method is not being used to pass the data. How else could the data get sent from cgame to game?

[Eraser]

Info_ValueForKey doesn't send any data, it's a helper function to read data from a special kind of string that contains key/value pairs. The clue is the bit about clientinfo. That is client specific data that's transmitted to the server

[nexus024]

Yes, I have checked there to by issuing the clientinfo command, but unfortunately the data is not being stored in there. Any other ways of transferring data between cgame and game??