Score Keeping

#1 I havent got that far in the book. but i will in a week. I will let you know how I go. BUT, I have a prob at the moment n that when running in dedicated server mode.. when the pllayer dies on the client the program crashes.. thought you may have come acorss the same issue.. just running the std code from kenneths book/CD

#2 Seems like every problem I solve two new ones pop up! However, Trevor, I haven't had anything resembling like what you mentioned.
For those interested , I've solved my scoring problem. I couldn't make Finney's code work, so I started with a clean slate and wrote my own. It is very specific for my particular application, non-multiplayer and non-network, so it probably won't work on the majority of games out there.

To keep score of Player deaths I inserted this code into the server.cs file:

$scorePlayer = %deaths;                //Set score string equall to number of deaths

function IncreaseScore()
{		
	%value = GetWord($scorePlayer, 0); //Obtain value of deaths in score string
	Scorebox.SetValue(%value+=1);       //Increment number of deaths and set it on scoreboard
	$scorePlayer++;	                               //Increment score string value
	if (%value >= $Game::MaxPoints)     //Cycle game if preset value is reached...
	{		
		cycleGame();
		Scorebox.SetValue($scorePlayer-=%value); //...and reset scoreboard to 0
	}
}

function Dead()
{
	%this.deaths++;
	IncreaseScore();
}

I then called the Dead() function in the player.cs file from the HumanMaleAvatar::onDisabled(%this,%obj,%state) function

To score Player kills I inserted this code into the ai.cs file:

$scoreAIPlayer = %deaths;                //Set score string equall to number of deaths

function UpdateScore()
{		
	%value = GetWord($scoreAIPlayer, 0); //Obtain value of deaths in score string	
	Scorebox2.SetValue(%value+=1);        //Increment number of deaths and set it on scoreboard
	$scoreAIPlayer++;	                         //Increment score string value
	if (%value >= $Game::MaxKills)            //Cycle game if preset value is reached... 
	{
		cycleGame();
		Scorebox2.SetValue($scoreAIPlayer-=%value); //...and reset scoreboard to 0
	}
}

function Killed()
{
	%this.deaths++;
	UpdateScore();	
}

I then called the Killed() function from the onDisabled function in each of my AIPlayer files.
The last thing I did was to use the Gui Editor to modify the player interface. I added another scorebox to correspond to kills and appropriately reworded their titles.

#3 Everything that happens in a function happens in an instant. So making two calls to the same function will result in the product of the second call. Also, when setting the score back to Zero, set it back to ZERO. Do not use any other method. To do so is just asking for trouble. Also, since there is only one word in your string to get, you don't need to get the word at all, just use it. To clean your functionality up a little, might I suggest...

function UpdateScore()
{
	//  Increase the AI score by one
	$scoreAIPlayer++;

	//  Check for winner, end match if neccesary
	if($scoreAIPlayer >= $Game::MaxKills)
	{
		//  Zero the scores
		$scorePlayer = 0;
		$scoreAIPlayer = 0;
		
		//  Cycle the game
		cycleGame();
	}

	//  Update the scorebox
	Scorebox2.setValue($scoreAIPlayer);
}

#4 Thanks for the advice Gonzo.