HUDFramework -- curious code that looks like a mistake. Help me understand.

[RaidersClamoring]

Since the author of the framework seemingly isn't active anymore, perhaps someone in this forum can help me make sense of this.

In order to instantiate the framework and run it, the first think one must do is retrieve an instance of the HUDFramework script as instructed here:

On the Papyrus end, to load a HUD widget, you need to:

1. Get a reference to HUDFramework by calling HUDFramework hud = HUDFramework.GetInstance(). If HUDFramework is not installed, this returns None.

Makes sense. However the function in said script does not make sense to my eyes:

HUDFramework Function GetInstance() global

Debug.MessageBox("Warning: HUDFramework implementation not present. You may have compiled HUDFramework.psc without an implementation.")

return None

EndFunction

This can only ever return None, no? What is this wizardry and what am I missing?

Link to page/article
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/articles/371

[RaidersClamoring]

Never mind, the reason is it's merely a signature-psc while the actual pex in the BS2 contains the working code. Recompiling will make the function throw a noticeable error instead. Pretty clever.

 

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