Queston about SetControllerVariable

[Jim]

Defining Story was one of my over 100x syntax alterations.

I need a working sample please.

I haven't read the entire thread, but if you look at the space shooter sample I provided, it has examples of using these scripting functions.

http://www.ridereport.net/bv/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/spaceshooter_project.rar

[Squat]

I started hunting for that very link. Thanks Jim

[Jim]

writer.gsl:
line 5: 'Story' is not declared
line 5: Cant' implicitly convert from 'String&' to 'int'

{void SetControllerVariable( Object@ object, const String& in name, String value)

   if (name == "Story")
   {
   Story = value;
   }
}

Is this your entire writer.gsl?? the function call SetControllerVariable is used to set something,so you need to pass it information.... that's what String value is at the end.... Is value declared?

Edit, I looked over my space shooter, and it is actually using the save game variables.... It must have been an older version using the controllervariables.


EDIT:
Can you post both entire files, reader and writer.gsl... Thanks.

[Squat]

I can post this, that works now, thanks to your sample.

writer.gsl

String Story;

void Initialize( Object@ object)
{
object.SetControllerSetting("Story", "Once upon a time, there was a story that needed to be told. I just told it. The end.");
}

reader.gsl

void DynamicsAdvance( Object@ object, float seconds)
{
      print(GetGameManager().GetWorld().GetObject("writer").GetControllerSettingString("Story"));

}

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Everybody. I know a LOT more now.

In the end, the problem was using GetController'Variable' instead of GetController'Setting'. That's even easier than Flash now and I can code any game in 2D there. Once I get more of a grip on the 3D matrices and raycasting for real control over that 2rd axis, I'll be able to make a commercial game. All my frustration has been washed away with those 2 sweet little lines.

Now I'm gonna go and make my spider interested in more than just one of my balls.

Oh and thanks to Jim, I think I can now spawn them so I can get a bunch of spiders crawling all over my balls. I've always wanted that.

[Squat]

Just for fun, and to test that I can read AND write this way, I came up with a stupid example:

Make 2 objects named reader and writer and assign each scripts.

reader.gsl

void DynamicsAdvance( Object@ object, float seconds)
{
   String shouted = GetGameManager().GetWorld().GetObject("writer").GetControllerSettingString("shouted");

   if (shouted == "notdone")
   {
      Object@ writer = GetGameManager().GetWorld().GetObject("writer");
         String shout = writer.GetControllerSettingString("Story");
         GetGameManager().ShowTextPlain(shout, 1);
      writer.SetControllerSetting("shouted", "done");
   
   }
}

writer.gsl

String Story;
String shouted;
void Initialize( Object@ object)
{
   object.SetControllerSetting("Story", "I'm telling a great story!");
   object.SetControllerSetting("shouted", "notdone");
}

bool HandleEvent( Object@ object, const String& in event, GameEventParams@ params)
{
      if(event == "EnterProximity")
      {
         print("ENTERED");
         object.SetControllerSetting("Story", "YOU CHANGED THE STORY!!");
         object.SetControllerSetting("shouted", "notdone");
         return true;
      }
      else
      {
         object.SetControllerSetting("shouted", "done");
      }
      if(event == "ExitProximity")
      {
         object.SetControllerSetting("shouted", "notdone");
         print("EXITED");
         object.SetControllerSetting("Story", "BACK TO THE ORIGINAL STORY!!");
         return true;
      }
      
      return false;
}

So the story starts out as a great story and is printed to the screen as soon as the world loads up. I set it to short so I could check that it wasn't constantly triggering. When you enter the input radius of the writer object, it changes the story variable and also a call to allow for the text to be printed through the reader script. The reader script constantly monitors the writer object's variable and checks first if it's allowed to print the text. If it is then it does that and then sets the writer's call to disallow printing. It's always got the updated "Story" and "shouted" variables.

Is there a way to get the variable only once and then only send it again when it's altered? I'm guessing I'm heading back to the top of this thread for some more examining on that?

I realized during this part that HandleEvent acts almost exactly the same as DynamicAdvanced while there's actually something in the input area. With that, if I didn't have the option of the writer script getting a variable change from the reader, then the exitproximity would set the allow to yes and then nothing would turn it back off and the reader would constantly be recieve the permanent yes command stuck in the writer.

[Jim]

You mean you only want to ShowTextPlain if the shout string is different? Or are you asking about doing something else?