'keysLimit/' is not a value

[Outlawz7 1]

I'm trying to lock a SP mission. When I access Scenarios in game, I get the error in the title and the locked mission is not locked.

This is the mission that unlocks .ext

doneKeys[] = {"key1"};

This is the locked mission's .ext

keys[] = {"key1"};

keysLimit[] = {1};

doneKeys[] = {"key2"};

ArmA2 CO 1.62, no mods

Help?

[orcinus 121]

I'm no MP coder (indeed not much of a coder at all) but shouldn't the second line in the .ext be

keysLimit[] = 1;

??

[Outlawz7 1]

That line crashed the game when I loaded the mission until I added the brackets.

[orcinus 121]

Well it doesn't like the brackets much better... weird as that is the correct syntax, I just checked in the BiKi (unless the BiKi is wrong?).

[Outlawz7 1]

Well this is the error when I don't use brackets.

Config: '1' encountered instead of '{'

[orcinus 121]

Hmm. I'm sure that the BiKi syntax is correct - it's been there too long for an error to have survived.

Have you run the script through Squint?

Sometimes ArmA reports a line as being in error when it is sctually the following line, or something like a missing ";" in the preceding line. Squint will usually pick those up.

[Outlawz7 1]

I got Squint and checked and it doesn't say there's an error either with or without brackets.

Edited August 6, 2013 by Outlawz7

[orcinus 121]

OK, I just peeked inside a few MP missions and they all use the BiKi syntax. It must be something else in the script.

Could you post the whole thing?

[Outlawz7 1]

I did, in the first post.

[Master85 1]

I can't test it at the moment but the biki syntax for keysLimit looks wrong.

it has to be either

keysLimit[] = {2};

or

keysLimit = 2;

and not a mix of both.

According to the biki description it should be a number, so my (educated) guess would be the latter,

i.e. for your mission

keysLimit = 1;

And make sure to use unique key names to avoid collisions with BIS's or other authors' keys (and your own keys of different campaigns / series of scenarios), e.g. by using author tags

[Outlawz7 1]

It's the second one:

keysLimit = 2;

, the mission is locked now.

Many thanks, Master!! :D

[orcinus 121]

That's most peculiar. I looked in a couple of MP missions that I have played as SP & they both used the BiKi syntax.

Anyway, glad you got it fixed.