Tools

Every tool the bench serves, as tools/list gives them; generated from the code. Plugins add tools of their own (health lists them); their docs are theirs.

Tool	What
abilities	Lists every ability a creature has, not only those on its quickbar.
board	Reads and answers the quest board while its screen is open (the Chanter’s board, or Awakening’s Letters for the Commander).
camera	Reads or moves the camera, in explore or combat mode.
character	Reads a creature’s character sheet.
chargen	Builds the hero on the game’s character creation screen, as a player’s clicks do, so the game’s own rules and scripts apply; then ends the screen, and the origin starts.
control	Gives control to a party member, like clicking its portrait.
controls	Lists the key bindings shown in the Options screen’s Controls list.
craft	Makes poisons, potions, traps and runes as the game’s crafting screen does, so the game’s own rules apply.
creature	Returns one creature in full.
creatures	Lists every creature in the area, nearest first.
cursor	Returns what is under the real mouse cursor right now, in explore and combat mode.
data	Reads the game’s data tree, the values its interface displays.
dialogue	Reads or answers the conversation on screen, or skips a cutscene.
equip	Puts an item from the pack on a party member, or takes one off, the way the inventory screen does, so the game’s rules apply (requirements, which items fit which slot).
equipment	Lists what a creature wears, with each item in full, as item returns it.
events	Returns the events since a cursor, in order.
exits	Lists the ways out of the area.
frame_capture	Records the next frame the game draws, as Direct3D 9 was handed it.
geometry	Measures from a creature (id) to another creature or object (target) or a point.
gift	Gives a follower a gift from the pack, like the inventory’s Give button.
gui	Returns what the game’s interface is showing.
health	Says whether the game is alive and what state it is in.
input	Sends the game one of its own internal messages, written as text.
inventory	Lists the items in a creature’s backpack, or in a container without opening it (a chest, a body, a pile of bones).
item	Reads one item in full.
journal	Lists the quests in the journal.
levelup	Spends a creature’s level-up points as the game’s level-up screen does, by the engine’s own rules for what may be taken.
log	Reads a DAOLib log (in Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age\daolib) from a cursor.
loot	Takes everything a container holds (a chest, a body’s remains, a pile of bones.
movie	Drives the ActionScript of a screen that is shown, to reach what no message does (such as a tab or a scroll).
order	Gives an order to a creature by id, as the player would.
party	Works the party picker, the screen the game shows after a follower joins and at camp, as a player’s clicks do.
pause	Pauses or unpauses the game, like the space bar.
peek	Reads a field of a live object, or of the game’s own data, by a chain of offsets.
placeables	Lists the doors, chests, levers and other placeables in the area, nearest first.
plot	Returns the state of a quest or story.
pointer	Makes the game act as if the mouse rested at a place, without clicking, to show what appears only under the cursor (a path preview, a cost caption, a highlight).
press	Presses a button, just as a click would.
resources	Searches the game’s resources by name, across every archive in the game’s folder.
rooms	Lists every room of the area.
saves	Lists, loads and makes the game’s saves.
scenario	Runs a list of steps in one call and returns a transcript.
screen	Finds where things are on the game’s screen, for driving the real mouse.
screenshot	Takes a picture of the game as it is now, interface included.
script	Calls any of the game’s 661 script commands by name and returns its result (value).
snapshot	Takes the game’s state in one frame, as a JSON another engine can write too, to compare with snapshot_diff.
snapshot_diff	Compares two snapshots and says what differs.
stage_cooldown	Sets how long is left on a creature’s cooldown for one ability; 0 makes the ability ready.
stage_cutscene	Plays a cutscene the way the game’s scripts do.
stage_effect	Puts a condition on a creature, or removes effects from it, to set up a test.
stage_equip	Creates an item from a template in a creature’s inventory and equips it, in the item’s own slot or in slot.
stage_group	Moves a creature to another group.
stage_health	Sets a creature’s current health to value.
stage_kill	Kills a creature by dealing it more damage than its health.
stage_reset	Restores things to how they were before a fight, so another fight can run in the same session.
stage_spawn	Creates a creature from a template at point, in the area of the creature you control.
state	Returns the game’s current state.
steer	Holds one of the game’s movement keys down for the creature you control, with no key pressed and the window not in front.
store	Buys or sells an item at the store screen that is open, or closes it.
surroundings	A quick look around, one line per thing.
tactics	Reads and sets a party member’s tactics (what they do on their own in a fight), the way the tactics screen does, with no screen open and nobody selected.
travel	Moves a creature, or the party, opening doors on the way.
triggers	Lists the area’s triggers, nearest first.
wait_for	Waits until an event matching topic and match happens, and returns it.
wait_ready	Waits until the game takes input again, for example after an area exit, a load, the end of a fight or conversation, or a cutscene.
wait_until	Waits until a condition on a tool’s answer holds.
warp	Puts the party in an area, at one of its waypoints, by the game’s own area transition (DoAreaTransition), with no save there.
window	Returns where the game’s window is on the desktop, for tests that must use the real mouse.
worldmap	Returns the world map.