What's wrong with my while loops? — Scripting — Armageddon Games Forums Archive

thebetter1 31 May 2008, 17:42

For some reason, the compiler doesn't like that I have left braces after my while loops. It tells me to put a semicolon after them instead, but then it interprets while as a function. Why won't it accept my left braces? It also does the same thing with the if loops.

import "std.zh"ffc script Homing_on_X {
	void run(ffc HomingFFC) {
		While(true) {
			If(Link->X < HomingFFC->X) {
				HomingFFC->Vx = -5;
				}
			If(Link->X > HomingFFC->X) {
				HomingFFC->Vx = 5;
				}
			If(Link->X == HomingFFC->X) {
				HomingFFC->Vx = 0;
				}
			Waitframe();
			}
		}
	}

Edit: I finally figured out that while can't be capitalized.:banghead:

Joe123 31 May 2008, 23:45

You also can't declare an ffc as an argument as far as I'm aware.
They can only be floats or integers.

ScaryBinary 01 Jun 2008, 00:51

Joe123 is correct. If you assign the script to the Homing FFC, though, you could do this:

import "std.zh"ffc script Homing_on_X {
	void run() {
		while(true) {
			if(Link->X < this->X) {
				this->Vx = -5;
				}
			if(Link->X > this->X) {
				this->Vx = 5;
				}
			if(Link->X == this->X) {
				this->Vx = 0;
				}
			Waitframe();
			}
		}
	}

(the "this" just refers to whatever FFC the script is assigned to.)

Otherwise, you could pass in the FFC id as the argument and then use Screen->LoadFFC(id).

Also note that your "if"s must be lowercase.