Expressions

The expressions in YarnSpinner provide a way to dynamically change the flow or the content of the dialogue, based on variables, combined with operators or function calls. They are used in several places:

• to insert a dynamic text into a line;

• to create or update a variable;

• as part of a command such as <<if>> or <<set>>;

• to compute the values of markup attributes.

An expression always evaluates synchronously, meaning that it cannot wait for user’s input, nor perform an action over time, nor carry out any computationally intensive calculations in a different thread. If such functionality is really desired, then it can be achieved via a user-defined command that waits for the calculation to succeed and then stores the result into some global variable, which can then be accessed from an expression.