Selecting HC unit and giving orders using Communications menu?

[james mckenzie-smith 1]

Hello All,

I have a small problem. I have successfully made some pretty detailed HC menus, but I am in the process of trying to simplify things, by allowing the player to use the F1-F12 keys to select an HC group (or more than one group), and then use a custom communications menu to execute commands.

Now, I know that, to do this within a player's squad, you can use something like this...

{_x stop true} foreach groupselectedunits player

...and it stops 'em dead. Problem is, it does not work at all in HC. Selecting an HC unit using the F1-F12 keys (or by any other method) and doing this results in nothing much at all happening. I have tried:

_array = hcSelected player; _array stop true

and

onHCGroupSelectionChanged, _x stop true

and other hc commands, but cannot figure it out.

Any assistance would be considered a great favour, and worthy of much praise!

[f2k sel 164]

See if this works and you need to call it by placing this in your menu call script

hcSelected player

_array = _this select 0;
_selectedgrps = (count _array);

for "_i" from 0 to _selectedgrps do 
{
   {_x stop true } foreach units (_array select _i);
};

[james mckenzie-smith 1]

Thanks for the assistance. Unfortunately, I use triggers and nothing else for my missions, and I imagine that that PHP code goes into a .qf file. In a trigger, it generates an error saying something like 'local variable in global space'.

I will have to keep looking for a solution. It's one of the last little pieces to the high command puzzle...

[igneous01 19]

yeap, cant assign local variables in trigger space since its global. I managed to get this working for my weapon team script. however, it had to be scripted in order to continuosly loop and update the high command selection as well as enable/disable comm menu actions when the appropriate team is selected.

have a look here: http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=128524&highlight=weapon+team+script

the script is in the example mission, the main one has some insight how to do it, but beware, the comm menu can get very complicated when trying to pass local variables or parameters for it.

[f2k sel 164]

I didn't realise you were doing it that way, no problem.

Just place it in a trigger, you can call it on a radio when you want it.

null=[] spawn {  _array =  hcSelected player;  _selectedgrps = (count _array);    for "_i" from 0 to _selectedgrps do    {      {_x stop true } foreach units (_array select _i);  };    };

Edited December 28, 2011 by F2k Sel

[james mckenzie-smith 1]

F2k Sel, stand by to be worshipped AS A LIVING GOD.

Thanks a trillion! :)

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