Passing arguments to spawn

[mdraimund 1]

Hello everyone,

Having some trouble getting arguments to be passed to a spawn code. The following code is meant to make sure all scripts are being executed properly. I pass the script to the spawn code as an argument but it returns <Null-script>. Has anyone got some insight?

_scriptHandle = [] execVM "script.sqf";

[_scriptHandle] spawn {
private ["_script", "_debug"];
_script = _this select 0;
_debug = str (_this select 0);
sleep 5;
if (!scriptdone _script) exitwith {hint format["Debug %1", _debug];};
};

[riouken 15]

Its a feature not a bug.

If you read the wiki here look at the bottom of the page.

A Null Script handle can be created in this manner:

_handle = 0 spawn {};

That is what any Script_(Handle) becomes when a script is finished running, meaning it will test as true with: scriptDone _handle and it returns "<NULL-script>" when converted to string. This in turn lets you initialize the variable with a completed Script_(Handle) and lets you test the variable even though nothing else may have set the handle by creating a script with spawn orexecVM. It also lets you store and manage script handles in arrays, and a few other sexy things.

[mdraimund 1]

Allright, so this could mean that the script is already done by the time the spawn script makes a string out of the argument? So unless anyone can see any errors in my code I'll happily go on believing this actually works.

[cuel 25]

I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to do. What do you mean with "executed properly"? That it has finished running? For that you could use

 _handle = [] execVM "script.sqf";
 waitUntil {scriptDone _handle};