How to remove an addAction

[mihikle 2]

Hey guys,

Having a few problems with removing an addAction from a living Civvie named elder1. It is basically a scripted conversation where the actions are what YOU say, and he responds.

in elder 1 init:

this exec "speech\initiate.sqf"; this allowDammage false;

initiate.sqf

_elder1 = elder1 addAction ["Hello Sir!", "speech\first.sqf"];

exit;

first.sqf

elder1 globalChat "Greetings, let the Shura begin.";

sleep 5;

elder1 globalChat "What do you want to talk about today?";

sleep 2;

_elder2 = elder1 addAction ["How are your family and Village Members?", "speech\second1.sqf"];

_elder3 = elder1 addAction ["Do you know where the Taliban are?", "speech\second2.sqf"];


exit;

The problem I am having is that I cannot remove the addaction for initiate.sqf - I have tried using (below) in both second1.sqf, second2.sqf, and first.sqf with no luck.

elder1 removeAction _elder1

HOWEVER it does appear to work if I put it in initiate.sqf - although I now get no action come up at all (that's why I know it is working!). Is there a way to make it delete itself in another script? or in my initiate.sqf make it so that it won't delete until the action has been activated?

[f2k sel 164]

Just a quick glance and I notice your using this exec "speech\initiate.sqf"; this allowDammage false; it should be

this execvm "speech\initiate.sqf"; this allowDammage false;

exec is for sqs files.

[giallustio 770]

elder2 = elder1 addAction ["How are your family and Village Members?", "speech\second1.sqf"];

elder1 removeAction elder2;

[mihikle 2]

@F2k Sel - execVM never works for me with an SQF :( I get an error come up.

@Giallustio - That doesn't work unfortunately :(

[tryteyker 28]

nul = [this] execVM "speech\initiate.sqf";

Also remove the exit; lines. They're unnecessary, the script will stop once nothing else has to be executed.

Use this to remove the action:

_ID = _this select 2;

// All the elder code stuff here

elder removeAction _ID;

[mihikle 2]

@trytryker - That still does not work :( However thanks for telling me how to execVM!

[giallustio 770]

You're doing something wrong then...

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/addAction

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/removeAction

[zodd 14]

I have never used 'exit;' in my scripts.. Do you have showscripterrors on? If there is an error in your script it wont execute the code after the error.

Try: use the show script errors parameter

put

_ID = _this select 2;

elder removeAction _ID;

at the top of your script and see if it works then (a bit of a hack workaround to see if it is the code or your script that is the problem...)

As Gia said... something is wrong because that should work!

edit: Very nice idea for conversation though... are you using variables to track it at all (eg. wont tell you something unless you have asked something else first?)

Edited March 24, 2013 by Zodd

[Kommiekat 12]

@mihikle

And please be sure to post up your results because I want to learn more about this.