Using Vixio Syntax

Old and Outdated Way

You will notice that in each syntax, as of Vixio 2.0.x, Vixio no longer allows you to just input an id for each syntax. This was because that was un-reliable and non-performant. As of Vixio 2.0 you are required to provide actual types for each syntax.

New Way

For example, when using the Send Message syntax, many people see the syntax send %message/string/messagebuilder/embedbuilder% to %channels/users% with %bot/string% [and store (it|the message) in %-objects%] and think they can just do send "Hi" to 1231 with event-bot. However, that is not the way it is done. When you want to send a message to a %channel% for example, you must use an expression that returns a %channel%. One syntax that returns a channel based on ID for example, is channel with id %string%. This returns the %channel% type Vixio needs to be able to send a message to it.

Putting it all Together

So now that we have an expression that returns a channel, and the send effect that needs a channel to send to. All we do is combine them like so;

discord command send <text>:
	trigger:
		send arg-1 to channel with id "51561651" with event-bot

When broken down, we see our channel with id "21312" expression inside of our send effect. If this confuses you here is a little more broken down example;

discord command send <text>:
	trigger:
		set {_channel} to channel with id "51561651"
		send arg-1 to {_channel} with event-bot

This sets a variable to the channel that the channel with id expression returns and gives that channel to the send effect to send it to.

Another way to think about it

You can think about is like so; If I asked you to send a message to 543432423, could you? No, you need a specific channel to send it to. That is how Vixio 2.0.x works, it will not guess for you because that's unreliable.

More Application

So this is how syntax all across Vixio work, say you wanted to get the name of a channel by it's id. You'd use the discord name of expression and combine it with that channel that channel with id returns like so; broadcast discord name of channel with id "34343" which would broadcast the name of the returned channel.