Advanced task question

[JacobJ 10]

Hey all

I have a point-system that I would like to start from the lobby. This ive got to work, but in the lobby I have an option to display the points on the fly in the task menu. The problem is that it will only show "Points", which is the title of the simple task i have created. It doesnt show, what I want it to show, and that is "Current point status: mst". mst is a variable that I have from another script.

Here is the scripts:

Points.sqf

if (!isServer) exitWith {};
//starting points
_points = 1600;

while {true} do {
_humres = 0;
_humdes = 0;
_tower = 0;

//The triggers
if !(alive tower) then {_tower = 250};
if !(alive hummer) then {_humdes = 100};
if (triggerActivated humrescue) then {_humres = 250};

//The calculation
mst = _points + ((blufor) * -100) + ((opfor) * 50) + (_humdes + _humres + _tower) + (cyw * -400);
publicVariable "mst";
hint str mst;
sleep 1;
};

Pointsintask.sqf

if (!isServer) exitWith {};
if (paramsarray select 5 == 1) then {
sleep 12;
tskPoints = {_x createSimpleTask ["Points"]} foreach allunits;
while {true} do {
{tskPoints setSimpleTaskDescription [format ["Current point status: %1",mst],format ["Current point status: %1",mst],format ["Current point status: %1",mst]]} foreach allunits; 
sleep 1;
};
};

How can this be? Is there something wrong with the pointsintask.sqf? I get no script errors...

/Jacob

[shuko 45]

Tasks are unit and client specific. So using

if (!isServer) exitWith {};

to limit the script only to the server will pretty much guarantee that it's not updated on clients (players).

Edit: In Pointsintask.sqf, of course.

[JacobJ 10]

Okay, but how do I do it then? The just foreach allunits doesnt work.

[JacobJ 10]

Somehow the forEach thing doesnt seem to work.

If I remove the {_x} foreach allunits; and replace it by player createSimpletask bla bla, then it works as it should, but only on my computer, not on anyone else joining.

[shuko 45]

As I said, tasks are unit specific as well as client specific. If you use a loop to create a task, the last task/unit will be stored in your tskPoints. Every other unit's task variable is gone. Thus, you can't update them.

---------- Post added at 12:07 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:04 PM ----------

You need something like this:

creation:

tskPointsHandles = [];
{
 _tsk = _x createsimpletask...
 _tsk setdesc...
 tskPointsHandles set [count tskPointsHandles,_tsk];
} foreach allunits;

update:

{
 _x setdesc...
} foreach tskPointsHandles

[JacobJ 10]

I am sorry if I am a bit stupid, but could you explain what these lines do? The update code, where does it go, or is that a substitution for the other code?