https://wiki.returnofreckoning.com/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=API%3ALoadingScreenGetPatchNotesDataAPI:LoadingScreenGetPatchNotesData - Revision history2026-10-17T14:21:34ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.11https://wiki.returnofreckoning.com/index.php?title=API:LoadingScreenGetPatchNotesData&diff=30568&oldid=prevMaintenance script: UI Lua API import (WAR 1.4.8)2026-10-16T19:46:40Z<p>UI Lua API import (WAR 1.4.8)</p>
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Returns the patch note lines for patches released since the player's last login, for the patch notes loading screen.<br />
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<pre><br />
patchNotesData = LoadingScreenGetPatchNotesData()<br />
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== Arguments ==<br />
None.<br />
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== Returns ==<br />
;patchNotesData : <code>table</code> or nothing – A table with the fields below, or nothing when there are no patch notes to show.<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Key !! Type !! Meaning<br />
|-<br />
| <code>mainItems</code> || <code>table</code> || Array of <code>wstring</code> lines, indexed from 1. The main bullet points.<br />
|-<br />
| <code>secondaryItems</code> || <code>table</code> || Array of <code>wstring</code> lines, indexed from 1. The lesser items.<br />
|}<br />
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== Details ==<br />
* The client reads <code>interfacecore/tome/loadingscreens/patchnotes.csv</code>. Each row has a patch timestamp, a string file name, and two string id ranges: one for main bullets and one for lesser items.<br />
* Only rows whose timestamp is not older than the last login time stored in the user settings are used.<br />
* For those rows the named string file is loaded from the client's loading screen string folder, and the strings in the id ranges are collected into <code>mainItems</code> and <code>secondaryItems</code>.<br />
* If no line was collected, the function returns nothing, so the result can be tested with <code>if</code>.<br />
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== Errors ==<br />
None.<br />
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== Example ==<br />
From <code>ea_loadingscreen/source/loadingscreen.lua</code>:<br />
<pre><br />
local loadingData = LoadingScreenGetCurrentData()<br />
local patchNotesData = nil<br />
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if( SystemData.LoadingData.initialLoad )<br />
then<br />
patchNotesData = LoadingScreenGetPatchNotesData()<br />
end<br />
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if( patchNotesData )<br />
then<br />
EA_Window_LoadingScreen.activeMode = EA_Window_LoadingScreen.MODE_PATCH_NOTES<br />
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From <code>ea_loadingscreen/source/patchnotesloadingscreen.lua</code>:<br />
<pre><br />
CreateNoteWindows( patchNotesData.mainItems )<br />
CreateNoteWindows( patchNotesData.secondaryItems )<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[API:LoadingScreenGetCurrentData|LoadingScreenGetCurrentData]]</div>Maintenance script