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Finding Trigger Types in C++?

by Stefan Beffy Moises · in Torque Game Engine · 07/08/2002 (11:20 pm) · 1 replies

Hi there,
got a quick question: how do I find TriggerObjects in C++?
The "standard way" doesn't seem to find trigger type objects (everything else seems to work well, e.g. InteriorObjectType, ItemObjectType, ...
But this doesn't find anything:
for (SimSetIterator itr(conn); *itr; ++itr) {
      if ((*itr)->getType() & TriggerObjectType) {
         Con::printf("Found: %s", (*itr)->getClassName());
      }
...
Also, only searching for the className instead of the type doesn't work either, e.g.
for (SimSetIterator itr(conn); *itr; ++itr) {
      if (dStrstr((*itr)->getClassName(), "Trigger") != NULL) {
         ...

Funny thing is, this *does* work in script like this:
function getMultiTriggerCount(%name)
{
   %dataGroup = "MissionGroup";
   %triggerCount = 0;
   for(%i = 0; %i < %dataGroup.getCount(); %i++)
   {
      %obj = %dataGroup.getObject(%i);
      if(%obj.getClassName() !$= "Trigger")
      {
         // no trigger!
         continue;
      }
      if((strStr(%obj.getDatablock().getName(), %name) != -1) && isObject(%obj))
      {
         echo(%i SPC "Found Trigger:" SPC %obj.getName());
         %triggerCount++;
      }
   }
   return %triggerCount;
}

Aren't the Triggers in the SimSet? Do I have to use a SimGroup operator and iterate through a different group? But I thought *every* object can be found in the SimSet?
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#1
07/09/2002 (10:01 am)
*slap*
Stupid /me, of course you have to iterate through the MissionGroup... like it did in script, too... you really shouldn't try to program at 7:00 am ... :-P
SimSet * missionGroup = dynamic_cast<SimSet*>(Sim::findObject("MissionGroup"));
   for(SimSetIterator itr(missionGroup); *itr; ++itr)
   {
      if ((*itr)->getType() & TriggerObjectType) {
         Con::printf("Found: %s", (*itr)->getClassName());
      }
   }