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Editors Depot - Mission Editing and Scripting => Arma2 - Editing/Scripting General => Topic started by: Rytuklis on 12 Mar 2013, 12:52:20

Title: Info text not appearing..
Post by: Rytuklis on 12 Mar 2013, 12:52:20

So what i'm trying to do is place an infotext function.

I place a module "Function" on the map, then i type this into init.sqf:

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waitUntil {!isNil "bis_fnc_init");
["Line 1", "Line 2"] call bis_fnc_infoText;
Nothing happens.. nothing at all..
And when i use a trigger and paste this in the trigger initialization field, i can hear that "beep" typewriter sound once, but text doesnt appear.

Title: Re: Info text not appearing..
Post by: h- on 12 Mar 2013, 16:29:49

You do have typo there, on the first line:

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waitUntil {!isNil "bis_fnc_init");

They should both be curly brackets..

EDIT:
You should add -showScriptErrors startup parameter to the shortcut you launch the game from, without it you will not get any notifications on the screen if a script has a problem..

Title: Re: Info text not appearing..
Post by: Rytuklis on 27 Mar 2013, 08:55:05

It says that "bis_fnc_infoText" is an undenified variable
Also, i added " " to the bis_fnc_InfoText and now its saying  typestring expected

Title: Re: Info text not appearing..
Post by: h- on 29 Mar 2013, 10:51:16

Are you by any change using vanilla Arma2?

The function is included in Operation Arrowhead only which means you either have to use OA or Combined Ops to able to use this function.
Although then again if you hear the typewriter sound it wouldn't happen in vanilla A2..

EDIT:
This is what I got in my init.sqf:

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waitUntil {!isNil "bis_fnc_init"};
["Hello", "World"] call bis_fnc_infoText;Works just fine..  :dunno:

Title: Re: Info text not appearing..
Post by: Rytuklis on 03 May 2013, 13:58:04

Yea, i'm using vanilla. Probably thats the problem

Title: Re: Info text not appearing..
Post by: Rytuklis on 15 May 2013, 16:23:01

Switched to combine ops, still the same problem happens

Title: Re: Info text not appearing..
Post by: h- on 15 May 2013, 18:42:24

You probably should post up your mission/files, would be easier to troubleshoot..

Title: Re: Info text not appearing..
Post by: Rytuklis on 16 May 2013, 14:12:26

Actually just got it fixed, it seems that WaitUntil command was not supposed to be there. IT works now :)

Title: Re: Info text not appearing..
Post by: h- on 16 May 2013, 15:56:29

Well, I'd bet more on you having some sort of typo on the waitUntil line because it is infact needed ;) (not mandatory obviously, but still)
Like I pointed out already earlier in the code you quoted in the first post there is a typo..

What the line does is it ensures the functions module has properly intialized before any functions from it are called. I also base my claim on the fact that the waitUntil line is actual official method and also that it has always worked for me. :P