Starting the compiled SQF script from the SQS script

[Waldemar 337 12]

Hello.

 

How can I start the compiled SQF script from the SQS script ?

I have tried using the 'call' command, but it does not work.

 

init.sqf:

Mca_fnc_onVehicleFueled = compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "Script\Mission\Mca_fnc_onVehicleFueled.sqf";

 

some.sqf:

_taskTargetObject addEventHandler 
[
	"fuel", { [] spawn { quest_giver globalChat "1"; (_this select 0) call Mca_fnc_onVehicleFueled; } }
];

Mca_fnc_onVehicleFueled.sqf:

quest_giver globalChat "Mca_fnc_onVehicleFueled.sqf";

 

When the event handler fires, the first instruction works (i see the "1" in chat), but the compiled script is not started.

 

Thank you.

[7erra 629]

28 minutes ago, Waldemar 337 said:

_taskTargetObject addEventHandler 
[
	"fuel", { [] spawn { quest_giver globalChat "1"; (_this select 0) call Mca_fnc_onVehicleFueled; } }
];

 

This script won't work. You are creating a new independent scope with the spawn command and passing no arguments ( [] ) to the new function. Instead try this:
 

_taskTargetObject addEventHandler 
[
	"fuel", { quest_giver globalChat "1"; (_this select 0) call Mca_fnc_onVehicleFueled; }
];

Or if you really have to spawn it:

_taskTargetObject addEventHandler 
[
	"fuel", { _this spawn { quest_giver globalChat "1"; (_this select 0) call Mca_fnc_onVehicleFueled; } }
];

 

Btw there is no "sqs" in any of your scripts. What did you mean by that?

[Waldemar 337 12]

12 minutes ago, 7erra said:

Btw there is no "sqs" in any of your scripts. What did you mean by that?

As far as I know, the code of the event handler (E.H.) must be provided as an SQS script.

The 'sleep' command does not work in the E.H., so I think it really uses the SQS syntax.

It is not directly mentioned on BIS's page, but they use an SQS file in the example 1:

 

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/addEventHandler

Example 1:

_EHkilledIdx = player addEventHandler ["killed", {_this exec "playerKilled.sqs"}]

If I am wrong, please correct me.

 

P. S.

 

I need the 'spawn' command to use 'sleep' inside an SQF script.

The first method raises an error.

The second version works great!

Thanks!

 

[7erra 629]

True, the first example is sqs. But it is perfectly okay (and normal) to use sqf.

this addEventhandler ["Fuel", {_this execVM "script.sqf";}];

The BIKI documentation seems a bit old. This one seems to be from April 2006 when the page was first created.

 

Spawning the eventhandler and then calling a function is a bit redundant. You can just spawn the function from the eventhandler:

_taskTargetObject addEventHandler 
[
	"fuel", { quest_giver globalChat "1"; (_this select 0) spawn Mca_fnc_onVehicleFueled; }
];

This makes the _this variable accessible in the EH scope directly.

[Dedmen 2588]

On 1/26/2020 at 7:39 PM, 7erra said:

True, the first example is sqs.

no its not.

Its a SQF script, exec'ing a sqs script. The script in the eventhandler itself is SQS.

And it doesn't say anywhere on that wiki page that it needs to be SQS code.