[answered] What is the execution order of scripts?

[asmo]

Hello,

is there a algorithm / rule which determines which script is executed first and when the other?

Right now I have a use case where script B shall only be executed when a condition is met in script A. It looks like that works when I'm accessing a status variable of script A at the very beginning of script B to check if the rest of B shall be executed.
However, that it works here doesn't mean that is works for other players.
So, is the execution order predictable? Maybe they are executed by name or by object type they are attached to. I remember that I read that all addons content is merged with the game data...

Thanks in advance!

[Zini]

Within a frame local scripts are executed first, then the global scripts. There is no other guaranteed order beyond that. What ever order you are seeing beyond that may change at any time and you certainly should not write scripts that depend on it.

[asmo]

Within a frame local scripts are executed first, then the global scripts. There is no other guaranteed order beyond that. What ever order you are seeing beyond that may change at any time and you certainly should not write scripts that depend on it.

I see - then this has to be arranged by accessing status variables of the other script.
Thanks

[wheybags]

I hope there's not piles of mods that depend on some arbitrary sorting vanilla did ;_;

[asmo]

I'd like to know this as well:

script A contains

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 startscript B

Is B executed in the same frame where A came across that command or only in the next one?

Respectively script A contains

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PlaceAtPC my_NPC

and my_NPC has a script B. Is B executed in the same frame where my_NPC is placed or only in the next one?

Is both unpredictable or may the implementation change?

[Zini]

Is B executed in the same frame where A came across that command or only in the next one?

Could be either way. You can not rely on a specific behaviour here.

and my_NPC has a script B. Is B executed in the same frame where my_NPC is placed or only in the next one?

Same.

[asmo]

OK, thanks