Defold-printer module not working (?) (SOLVED)

Edd · August 17, 2019, 2:24am

Hi everyone I’ve been trying to use defold-printer in a little project unsuccessfully. I don’t know if I’m doing it wrong but I always get

And here it is the line 6 of the printer.gui_script

It’s just the basic setup from github… so I’m not sure what is going on, thanks.

Pkeod · August 17, 2019, 3:44am

It looks like self.shake_time has not been set.

github.com

Insality/defold-printer/blob/a6634aa1ef55137d8e6d0e575bb9235d85088413/printer/printer.lua#L495






function M.update(self, dt)
	if self.is_print then
		self.write_timer = self.write_timer - dt
		if self.write_timer <= 0 then
			print_next(self)
		end
	end


	if self.shake_time > 0 then
		update_shake(self, dt)
	end
end




function M.final(self)
	clear_prev_text(self)
	self.is_print = false
	self.shake_time = -1
end

Maybe @Insality can help.

TheKing0x9 · August 17, 2019, 9:25am

you need to change the code. Its some thing like :

self.printer:update(dt)

instead of

printer.update(self)

Edd · August 17, 2019, 11:26am

Yes, you were right. It’s totally working now, thank you.

Sayuris1 · August 26, 2019, 3:07pm

Is’s still not working for me
I get this :

And here is the code

I tried printer.final(self) but got the same error

Potota · August 26, 2019, 3:19pm

In line 3 you forgot to change template_name to your own value.

Sayuris1 · August 26, 2019, 3:25pm

No, I didn’t

And I tried to change both to something else but still got the same error.

TheKing0x9 · August 26, 2019, 4:39pm

In init, it needs to be

self.printer = printer.new(self, "template_name")

Note the quotes.

Sayuris1 · August 26, 2019, 8:22pm

Yes it’s working. Thank you.