Is a car locked?

[Deadfast 43]

Hello all.

I'm in a need of some help.

I'm trying to do a simple if condition based on whether a car is locked or not. I have figured out that locked is the command I'm looking for.

But whatever I type into the condition the script ends up yelling various errors (missing brackets, etc.).

What am I doing wrong?

PS, I did a search, but nothing relevant came out (as usual)...

[squeeze 22]

for a simple trigger just NAME a vehicle car:

place it within the trigger area.

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">locked car

in the condition

and something like hint "locked" in the On Act

if the car is locked you will see the hint if its not then no hint.

[Deadfast 43]

Ah damn it!

Looks like I was complicating things.

It couldn't be any simpler.

I've got a script of 70 lines, countless conditions and yet I get stuck on such stupidity

Thanks a lot for your help!

[Deadfast 43]

Alright, disregard whatever I said above. It just doesn't work...

Well, it worked alright for few hours. But now, when I decided to continue with the code it just doesn't work.

It was still b*tching about lines containing the locked condition. Removing them restored the script's functionality.

I even went so far to create a script file containing nothing but:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">

if (locked car) then

{

hint "Locked";

};

Car's init line:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">

this addAction ["test", "test2.sqf"]

The result:

Now seriously, what the hell am I doing wrong?

Is this some kind of a bug?

[kronzky 5]

The syntax looks fine. But there must be something else going on, that you're not telling us...

I tried the same code you listed, and it worked as expected (demo mission).

I also expanded the test script a bit, to check for different cars, and that worked fine as well: <table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">_car = _this select 0;

if (locked _car) then {

   hint "Locked";

} else {

   hint "Unlocked";

};

[benreeper 0]

Did he name the car?

--Ben

[poweruser 10]

Somewhere in your mission, you must have overwritten the script command locked with something like:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">locked = true;

That's the only way I could reproduce this error message.

If there were anything wrong with the parameter car:

1: not set, command "locked" returns bool (neither true, nor false; no error message)

2: some other type (bool, number, string, ... ), you get a meaningful error message

[Deadfast 43]

Thank you all so much for your help.

Deng figured it out in the end.

Looks like I forgot a trigger on the other side of a map. Bah...

So thanks again, finally I can return to my work .

Ah, BTW, since I have a topic open:

How can you display a variable in the middle of localized text in stringtable?

To give you an example:

The driver is <variable> at the moment.

[squeeze 22]

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">player sidechat format["The driver is %1 at the moment",name driver vehicle _car];

[Deadfast 43]

Thanks, but I would need to have stringtable with the variable in the middle .