When Variable Insertion Goes Wrong

Variable Insertion. You name the variable, CCI inserts the value. Rinse and repeat. Put simply, recursion. Sometimes, it can go wrong.

Example, a Twitch chat message:

And yet, when it pops up in a toast:

In this example, the $message of But, I don't want to insert $color also has a variable in it. But Twitch chat variables also have $color to define the user’s name colour. As CCI’s variable insertion is recursive, it inserts $message, tries again, sees the $color variable in $message, and inserts $color, resulting in what you see in the toast.

This is one such example where you might want to limit variable insertion recursion, or even disable it entirely.

To do this, you insert a new variable with VariableInsertCondition called variableInsertionMaxRecursion with a number. Setting it to -1 will disable insertion entirely, and any number above that limits the maximum recursion. Here, we still want $message to pop up in the toast, but not $color, so we set variableInsertionMaxRecursion to 0. This means CCI will insert the variables only once and stop there.

To reinstate normal function, just remove variableInsertionMaxRecursion with a VariableRemoveCondition.