Have simple probleam

[smoth]

Good luck with whatever endeavor you pursue. Sorry for my shitty advice early on.

[Argh]

error = 2, LuaRules/draw.lua, error = 2, LuaGadgets/gadgets.lua, [string "LuaGadgets/actions.lua"]:54: attempt to index local 'g' (a function value)

That kind of error halts gadgetHandler, IIRC, and can basically crash the whole Lua state for Gadgets.

IOW, if you have an error that bad (usually comes up with people attempting to port CA Gadgets, hmm) then you probably needed something from CA's Gadget files in the LuaRules directory (action.lua, system.lua, etc.) before it will operate.

So, removing that thing basically removed the conflict and allowed zwswg's code to operate.

[Forboding Angel]

Yeah, morph has bricked evo gadgets before. Once you actually know what's going on the fix is fairly simple, but when you're staring at infolog going "OMGWTF?!?!?! GHEY!"... yeah.

[zwzsg]

hay one last question

local MsgForMe=string.match(msg,message_identifier.."(.*)")

what significance is the red syntax?

It's a RegExp. Don't even try to understand that now.

Regular Expresions are very powerful, but very hard to come up with or even decode. Leave them to the Wizards.

The whole line though put into "MsgForMe" the part of the string "msg" that follows the identifier (or nil if there is no identifier).

[lurker]

Specifically, () means "output the part inside the ()" and .* means "everything from here to the end".
But if you want a simpler method (which won't fail if the gadget name has certain weird things in it):

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if msg:sub(1,#message_identifier) == message_identifier then
    local MsgForMe = msg:sub(#message_identifier + 1)
    --stuff
end