Wirelinks in exp2

[Hitman271]

How does one appropriately use wirelinks?

And for that matter, highspeed support with exp2.

A connection between exp2 and a cpu system would yield very great things....

[Jat Goodwin]

Wirelinks are an alternative to normal wires that offer a number of advantages. Any number of inputs or outputs on a component can be manipulated with one Wirelink, and you can also use it to retrieve the entity of a wirelinked component. Since all Wirelinks are capable of two-way communication, wirelinks are not clear-cut inputs or outputs. As such, to avoid ambiguity wirelinks which the expression should be able to manipulate are always declared in the @inputs of the expression. To connect this input to another component, you must use the Wirelink tool on the component to create a new output on it of the type Wirelink, then wire the input to the output as normal.

That.

Also this:
XWL:isHiSpeed() N Returns true if the linked component is high-speed capable.

makes me think that highspeed communication is allowed.

[Hitman271]

That.

Also this:
XWL:isHiSpeed() N Returns true if the linked component is high-speed capable.

makes me think that highspeed communication is allowed.

My question was how to use them.

I read the wiki entry and went into gmod all happy, then was hit by the console spam.

So I thought someone would iterate howto use it correctly a moi.

[Magos Mechanicus]

Basically, you find your component, for argument's sake let's say a vector thruster. You spawn it, place it, do whatever you need, then you take out the Wirelink tool and use leftclick on the thruster. It now has an output of [WIRELINK] type. Now you write an expression.

@inputs Thruster:wirelink Targetpos:vector
@persist L
Curpos=Thruster:entity():pos()
Dir=Targetpos-Curpos
Thruster:setNumber("X",Dir:x())
Thruster:setNumber("Y",Dir:y())
Thruster:setNumber("Z",Dir:z())
L=Dir:length()
Thruster:setNumber("Mul",L+5*$L)
interval(20)

This expression now has an input of [WIRELINK] type. Take your wiring tool of choice, and wire the expression's input to the thruster's output. The thruster should now try to move itself to the directed position. You can also retrieve ([NORMAL] type) outputs with XWL:number(), but vector thrusters don't have outputs. Switching to a hydraulic you can for instance use Hydraulic:number("Length") and it will get the output Length.
Haven't tested the hi-speed functions, though.

PS:Some more examples starting here.

[Jat Goodwin]

The wirelinks are borked. I tried them, they work expression side, just the tool doesn't work.

[Hitman271]

Thanks Magos.