Short version:

For variables “tvar" as the twine variable, and “jvar" as the JS variable:

• JS to Twine:
  • Within JS, use “State.variables.tvar = jvar;"
  • Or

<> prerender.foo = function(x) { state.active.variables[“tvar"]=“quux”; } <>

• Twine to JS:
  • In JS, use “var jvar = state.variables.tvar;"

How do I pass variables between Twine and javascript?

askedApr 13 in Authoringbypeterorme(104 points)

edited Apr 13 by peterorme

How do I pass variables between Twine and javascript? Is this different for different versions of Twine and/or different story formats?

In Twine 1.4 using the Sugarcane story format, Twine variables are in state.history[0].variables javascript variable, but with SugarCube I guess they are somewhere else.

1 Answer

answeredApr 13 bypeterorme(104 points)

selected Apr 20 by peterorme

Best answer

I found the answer in the sugarcube Story API.

With Sugarcube, you need to use state.active.variables rather than state.history[0].variables.

For example (using Twine 1.4 with a Sugarcube 1.0.19 story format), you can add a passage with the script tag and do this

prerender.foo = function(x) { state.active.variables[“bar”]=“quux”; } And in a passage you can do bar is <<print $bar>>

The prerender function (arbitrarily named “foo”) will be run before any passage, and set the “bar” variable to “quux”. In the passage you can access this as $bar.

To do the reverse (use a Twine variable in JavaScript code), just do the reverse:

in a passage, do <<set $bar = “quux”>> and in javascript: var bar = state.active.variables.bar;

To do the same thing in the built-in story formats (Sugarcane, Jonah, Responsive) you just need to use state.history[0] instead of state.active.

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