Trigger zone custom properties

[Nagilem]

Anyone know how to access the trigger zone custom properties from a script?

 

I added the properties and can see them in the mission file inside the miz.

 

From the mission file in the miz -

      [14] = 
           {
               ["y"] = 428908.55457227,
               ["radius"] = 3000,
               ["zoneId"] = 823,
               ["x"] = -229321.5339233,
               ["color"] = 
               {
                   [1] = 1,
                   [2] = 1,
                   [3] = 1,
                   [4] = 0.15,
               }, -- end of ["color"]
               ["properties"] = 
               {
                   [1] = 
                   {
                       ["key"] = "Sunrise",
                       ["value"] = "7",
                   }, -- end of [1]
                   [2] = 
                   {
                       ["key"] = "Sunset",
                       ["value"] = "19",
                   }, -- end of [2]
                   [3] = 
                   {
                       ["key"] = "Start_Delay",
                       ["value"] = "900",
                   }, -- end of [3]
               }, -- end of ["properties"]
               ["hidden"] = false,
               ["name"] = "Variables",
           }, -- end of [14]

 

I tried several methods to get them loaded but can't seem to access them.

 

First method - tried get getZones API function. I can get to the "radius" property, but cannot seem to enumerate the custom property key/value pairs. I don't know what other table entries are passed back from the function when invoked. Hoggit has an example that includes radius and point.

local Vartable = trigger.misc.getZone("Variables")

https://wiki.hoggitworld.com/view/DCS_func_getZone

 

Also tried the moose method to GetStates(). I cannot return the custom properties.

local Vartable = ZONE:FindByName("Variables")
local test = Vartable:GetState(Vartable, "Sunrise")

 

I haven't found a good way to force the enumeration of the Vartable variable as a table in the log to see what these functions return. I get errors when I try.

 

Anyone else know how to pass these into variables in lua?

Edited December 2, 2019 by Nagilem

[Nagilem]

Thanks to some folks on Discord - found another way to pass variables using a DO SCRIPT function in a trigger. I added a trigger, set up a do script in that trigger, then declare the variables as I would in a lua script fie directly in the ME. Then after that runs, I setup my DO SCRIPT FILE and redeclare those variables in my script referencing the previous declarations and they come right into the script Works great.