Triggers faulty?

#1 What documentation? I'm not saying I'm right but I've never seen those functions for a trigger in TGE.

#2 Http://tdn.garagegames.com/wiki/WorldBuilding/MissionEditor/Creating_Triggers

I believe its part of the TGE documentation, but i could be wrong.
If it happens to be so that i read documentation regarding TGB or something, what would your approach be to making stuff happen repeatedly after a set interval, with the objects inside the trigger?

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#3 Interesting! Well unless you are spawning the trigger with the players / objects already inside of it, and I'm going to assume you aren't, you can just use the OnEnterTrigger function to grab the id of each object entering. When the OnEnterTrigger function is called, call another function that you can schedule, something like this -

function mytrigger::onEnterTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj)
{
MyFunction(%obj);
}


function MyFunction(%obj)
{
// your code here

schedule(time in miliseconds here, 0, "MyFunction", %obj);
}

#4 Yes that is what i tought too, the problem is though, that when the "onLeaveTrigger" i called, i am going to have to call the Cancel() function, problem is, the schduele in particular lacks a "eventId"(right?) and i cant make something like this:
function myTrigger::onEnterTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj)
{
$schedule = schedule(100, 0, "MyFunction", %obj);
}

function myTrigger::onLeaveTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj)
{

Cancel($schedule);
}

Since the trigger is called on server side(as it is suposed to be?) and that means that every user would have to have said schedule asociated with them as following:

schedule(100, %userHandle, "MyFunction", %obj);

Problem is, i cant make something like this:

function myTrigger::onLeaveTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj)
{

Cancel(%obj.schdule);
}

Since %obj.schdule is not a valid schedule. I dont know why you would want the schdule to be asociated with a "name", since you cant use it to cancel the schedule(right?), and if you want for example to know to which user the schedule is asociated with, you could just pass the users handle as an extra argument.

I could make something like this:

function mytrigger::onEnterTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj)
{
MyFunction(%obj);
}

function MyFunction(%obj)
{
// your code here

%obj.schedule(100, 0, "MyFunction", %obj);
}

function mytrigger::onLaveTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj)
{
Cancel(%obj.schedule);
}

But that looks so bad, also, i belive it is not possible

#5 You might want to drop the schedule id and object id into a global array instead of a single variable or you can try to assign the schedule id the object itself but I'm not sure if that would work over multiplay.

function myTrigger::onEnterTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj)
{
$schedule[%obj] = schedule(100, 0, "MyFunction", %obj);
}

function myTrigger::onLeaveTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj)
{

Cancel($schedule[%obj]);
}

OR - but like I said I'm not sure if this will work over a network

function myTrigger::onEnterTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj)
{
%obj.schedule = schedule(100, 0, "MyFunction", %obj);
}

function myTrigger::onLeaveTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj)
{

Cancel(%obj.schedule);
}

#6 Thats clever. Btw the second solution you made is identical to one of those i wrote down =)

Anyways pretty strange that getObject() and getNumObjects() was not found, is there someone who has managed to duplicate these results?

#7 I could be wrong but I don't think my second solution was identical to yours because I am returning the scheduling ID to a custom field attached to that object.

#8 Yeah i see the difference now. Ill have to go for the global variable arraylist, will only have about 8 players per server so might as well...

#9 Follow up: the documentation was faulty, the right handle for the mentioned functions was supposed to be %trigger, and not %this, i will try and change the documentation so it shows the correct answer

EDIT: documentation meaning TDN