One Action when event loops

[Dynamite]

Hello,

I got an object with 7 alterable values. Each value named by it's number (Alterable Value is named "A1", Value 2 is named "A2" etc).
Each of these Alterable Values are used for the movement of the player. Now I'm trying to make something happen when the Player stops moving so I did:

A1 of ("Active")= 0
+A2 of ("Active") = 0
+A3 of ("Active") = 0
+A4 of ("Active") = 0
+A5 of ("Active") = 0
+A6 of ("Active") = 0
+A7 of ("Active") = 0

And I did the action I wanted it to (for example purposes, I made it play a sound.)
But the thing was the sound keeps playing because while the player is stopped all these values will always equal to 0. So the sound kept playing unless I moved the character.

This is the problem: At the end of all this I add a "Only one action when event loops" so the sound would only play once every time the player stopped moving.

A1 of ("Active")= 0
+A2 of ("Active") = 0
+A3 of ("Active") = 0
+A4 of ("Active") = 0
+A5 of ("Active") = 0
+A6 of ("Active") = 0
+A7 of ("Active") = 0
+ Only One Action When Event Loops

Nor for some reason the sound plays when I stop the first time, but when I walk around and stop it never plays. The sound only plays once in the entire application. It's as if I added the "Run this event Once" but I didn't.
What's wrong?

Thanks!

[Stephen]

Make sure all of your alterable values are equal to 0. Use counters to see if they are all 0 when you are not moving. Also try moving the "only once when event loops" to the top of the event.

stephen1980

[Dynamite]

They are all 0....I've already checked that (I set the object into the debugger).

And moving the "Only one action when event loops" to the top doesn't do anything.

[uprize]

That's strange, it should work. Maybe the problem is that when you start walking again, it doesnt change any of the values, so therefore it is still infact testing true to all values. Otherwise maybe you can toggle a flag instead.

A1 of ("Active")= 0
+A2 of ("Active") = 0
+A3 of ("Active") = 0
+A4 of ("Active") = 0
+A5 of ("Active") = 0
+A6 of ("Active") = 0
+A7 of ("Active") = 0
- Set flag 0 of 'Active' to ON

A1 of ("Active")= 0
OR
+A2 of ("Active") = 0
OR
+A3 of ("Active") = 0
OR
+A4 of ("Active") = 0
OR
+A5 of ("Active") = 0
OR
+A6 of ("Active") = 0
OR
+A7 of ("Active") = 0
- Set flag 0 of 'Active' to OFF

Flag 0 of 'Active' is ON
+ Only one action while event loops
- Do event

[Dynamite]

Nothing works! I tried all that but the sound keeps playing like a million times over and over again.

It's cause some of the values are 1 or 0.

Alt Val 1,3,5 and 7 could be 1 but 2,4 and 6 are 0. They keep changing from 0 to 1 because of the movement engine. The only time when they're all 0 is when the player has stopped.

[James]

Post your MFA file.

[Dynamite]

I can only send it to 1 trusted person... It's for a very big project (Knytt Online). I won't release the source code to the public yet.

[James]

..isolate the problem and post that instead?

[Dynamite]

I'll have to find my own way out of this problem.

[uprize]

It must be a problem in your code somewhere then, as you seem to be hitting the problem with various approaches.

But yes, try to isolate it because if it is a bug I am sure Yves would want to fix it. That would also helo you narrow it down to what the cause is