Chef Shared Loader 1.5.2

A patch release: the F9 menu's search moves to Enter, plus fixes to the hang watchdog, the unit scan and saving settings.

Users

• The F9 menu's search moved from / to Enter. Press Enter (ENTER SEARCH) and the game's chat box opens: that's the search box now, and the list follows as you type. Backspace erases.
• To finish, press Escape (ESC DONE) or click: the chat box closes without sending, the results stay, and the arrows take it from there. Enter with text in the box (ENTER SENDS) sends that text to the other players as a chat message, and the loader can't stop that. With nothing typed, Enter just closes the box. F9 does nothing until you finish typing, and / does nothing now.
• On the keyboard, Right now does every row's job: it opens a mod, flips a toggle, starts a key capture and presses a button. Enter on a row starts a search instead. The controller and the mouse work as before.
• The loader's unit scan (what Treasure Radar finds loot with) now switches off only after 4 launches in a row crash while it runs, not 2, so crashes from something else don't turn it off so easily. If 1.5.1 switched it off, this update turns it back on.
• The hang watchdog no longer stops a healthy mod because the game stalled during its call (a slow engine call, the PC hitching): time with no Lua running is left out, within a limit, so a real endless loop is still stopped. The log now names the file and function a hung mod was running.
• Two copies of a mod with the same name, one an addon and one boot-style, no longer both run: only the one deployed last does.
• Options you change while chef_loader_settings.txt is read-only or locked are no longer lost at the next launch.
• A mod you switch off in the menu still gets to save when the game closes.
• With "Controller in this menu" set to Off, the menu shows the keyboard's hints and the mouse cursor right away.
• When the menu can't find the mouse cursor, other mods can still hold the mouse.
• Speed: a mod that refreshes its unit watch every frame no longer keeps the unit scan running back to back, a mod that reads a lot of game objects no longer writes a crash-trace line on every read, and a few smaller speed and memory fixes.

Modders

• chef.button rows take Right, the controller's confirm or a click. The keyboard's Enter no longer presses one.
• While the menu is open, in a search too, your mod's key and mouse reads and chef.typed() still answer nothing, so a search never fires your hotkey.
• Another loader can now host the core in an environment of its own. The core runs its own init at its first update when nothing called it, never runs the host's callbacks twice, and if its start fails, the host's own callbacks keep running. Thanks to MCTimeRL for the report and the suggested fix (issue 16).
• When the ship loads into the mission's world, mission_end now comes before the world event and carries the mission's world id, in a late start's replay too.
• A paused mod (switched off, with no on_stop) still gets its shutdown as the game closes: the shutdown hook and event, a look-alike's on_shutdown and its guards' stop, so it can save.
• A stopped copy's chef.save and chef.set answer nil, 'the mod is off', and its BingusRuntime guard and open_log are refused.
• When an on_change callback sets its own row again, the callbacks after it hear only the new value. Each ModOptionsMenu on_change callback has its own crash key, so a crash skips only that one.
• chef.spawn and chef.particles refuse a position that isn't finite numbers (nil, 'x, y, z: finite numbers').
• chef.units_near with a negative radius finds nothing, chef.arc with no angle draws nothing, and chef.key_label hands back a name over 64 bytes as it is.
• debug.traceback starts at your own code, and a nil passed to a bit function is a "bad argument" at your line.
• HD2 Lua Runtime mods: a GUI made while the mod is paused stays hidden until it's back on, and handle.missing() also names the calls a need depends on.
• A dev-mode reload with the menu open sends the new copy the menu event with true.
• Hang watchdog: a gap of over 0.5 s between its checks (no Lua ran) comes off the clock of the call and its callers. The first gap comes off whole, then up to twice the call's limit in all (6 s, 20 s at launch), one budget shared by every call inside it. An HD2-Boot mod's or boot script's init and the after_startup callbacks at launch get the start's 10 s. A listener run inside a call that hung is no longer slowed into a hang of its own, and a mod looping on a hung boot script's callback is stopped now.
• README and MODDING fixes: the log line for an addon stopped after 20 errors, what happens when a start hangs, and that material values aren't undone on stop.
• Language files: the menu's hints use SENDS and DONE now, and no longer draw RESULTS or EXIT.

Updating: replace the old zip (Chef-Shared-Loader-1.5.1.zip, or the one you have) with this zip in your mod manager, keep it at the highest priority, then Purge and Deploy.

Download: Chef-Shared-Loader-1.5.2.zip below (not the source code). Mod authors: chef_loader_stub.lua is the start-up stub to carry as your mod's boot (docs/MODDING.md, "Carrying the stub").