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Title: What's "&" do?
Post by: occam on 09 Sep 2002, 15:30:38

I was pawing though the scripts.pbo and noticed that a couple of the scripts have a line like:

&2

or

&3

The rest of the commands made sense to me, but I can't find any reference to this in any text or tutes. Anyone know what it does?

Title: Re:What's "&" do?
Post by: toadlife on 10 Sep 2002, 06:15:44

It means "when the time reaches the specified time, go on."

&3 means @_time >= 3

or in english: "When the variable '_time' is equal to or greater than 3, go on."

Every time you start a script, a local variable called _time is created. It counts up from zero when the script starts and keeps track of how much time the script has run.

Here is a blurb about it in the official command ref:

Code: [Select]

Waiting for a time: line starting with '&'.
    Example: &endTime is equivalent to @_time >= (endTime)

When they say "endTime" they are expecting you to assign a number to it.

Title: Re:What's "&" do?
Post by: occam on 10 Sep 2002, 13:35:36

Aha! Very Handy.

Thank you for the clear and concise info.