using variables in trigger statements

[Rothwell 10]

Hi, I'm setting up a series of bases that will spawn once the player is 300m away from them, and despawn once the player leaves that radius...

I really don't want to hardcode in the .sqf file of each base for it's trigger... this is a matter of making the script generic and saving code.

but here's the problem, I can't pass in local variables like down below, And if I have a global variable, the trigger statement won't take a snapshot of the variable when the trigger's created... it'll grab the value of the variable when the trigger is switched (which will end up being the filename for the last base added to the list)

_templateName = _this select 0; //i.e. "Base1_mission.sqf"
_trig = createTrigger ["EmptyDetector",_location];
_trig setTriggerArea [300,300,0,false];
_trig setTriggerActivation ["ANY","PRESENT",true];
_trig setTriggerStatements ["vehicle player in thislist","hint ""hello there!""; _n = execVM _templateName;","hint ""so long"""];

NOTE: this is just a snippit of my test code.. the whole thing works except the _templateName thing

is there any way to get around writing code for a trigger for every single base?

[f2k sel 164]

you can't pass local variables to a trigger statement,

try

templateName = _this select 0; //i.e. "Base1_mission.sqf"

_trig setTriggerStatements ["vehicle player in thislist","hint ""hello there!""; null = execVM templateName;","hint ""so long"""];

[Rothwell 10]

well the problem is, say I have a list of bases, each with their templates, say "base_1.sqf","base_2.sqf"....."base_n.sqf". I will set up a trigger for each one (by calling an init script for each base at the beginning of the mission), but the variable templateName will change with each base, so at the end of all bases, templateName will equal "base_n.sqf", and so when any of the triggers are tripped, "base_n.sqf" will always be called, so I suppose I don't have a choice other than to make some changes so each base has it's own trigger code

[Tankbuster 1746]

call compile format is the way forward here. It's clunky and very old fashioned, but used sparingly, it's excellent.

[f2k sel 164]

Have you tried using setvariable to pass the name?

_templatename= _this select 0; //i.e. "Base1_mission.sqf"

missionNamespace setvariable ["templateName",_templateName];

_trig = createTrigger ["EmptyDetector", getpos place];
_trig setTriggerArea [300,300,0,false];
_trig setTriggerActivation ["ANY","PRESENT",true];
_trig setTriggerStatements ["vehicle player in thislist","hint ""hello there!"";null=[] execvm (missionNamespace getvariable 'templateName')","hint ""so long"""];

[Tankbuster 1746]

setvariable is the way forward, I'm sure, though call compile format will work.

[cuel 25]

_templateName = _this select 0; //i.e. "Base1_mission.sqf"
_trig = createTrigger ["EmptyDetector",getPosATL player];
_trig setTriggerArea [300,300,0,false]; 
_trig setTriggerActivation ["ANY","PRESENT",true];
_trig setTriggerStatements ["vehicle player in thislist",format ["player sidechat 'hello there'; 0 = [] execVM '%1.sqf'",_templateName],""];