Example script from events section is not working

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The example script from the events section (Preset Lua extension | Electra One Documentation) isn’t working:

function events.onPotTouch(potId, controlId, touched)
  print ("potId: " .. potId)
  print ("controlId: " .. controlId)
  print ("touched: " .. touched)
end

The problem is that the touched variable is of type bool and (pardon my c-lang-speak) casting that to a string doesn’t seem as straight-forward since I can see the following error in the log whenever that line is reached:

error running function ‘onPotTouch’: ctrlv2/slots/p001.lua:427: attempt to concatenate a boolean value (local ‘touched’)

Here’s what I’m doing instead and that works fine:

print ("touched: " .. (touched and 1 or 0))
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The examples page was from an early revision of the Electra OS where the touched parameter was actually a 1 or 0 even though the docs said boolean.

Martin fixed the touched variable in a newer rev of the OS, but the docs were missed.
I’ve also used code similar to yours (after having it bomb out trying to print the boolean. lol)

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Fixed the docs to handle the boolean correctly.