Need some quick help

[Jman9912]

Hey guys. Hoping to get a bit of help here. I'm working on a fishing system that initializes and brings up a button you have to press. if the correct button is pressed within x amount of seconds (we'll use 3 seconds), another button pops up with about 5 rounds of this. If the button is not pressed or the incorrect button is pressed, you lose.

I'm initializing the weapon and calling a timeout. The timeout runs through functions ShowButton(),CheckKeys().

showbutton determines a random number 0-3 and show the corresponding button. How can I make the button stay there for x seconds without having to call the timeout again. If that makes sense.

I'm running the timeout on a .05 timer which is constantly running the show arrow script and checking for a keydown.

I'm really sorry if this sounds confusing. If I need to elaborate more, i'll try.

[xAndrewx]

If I were scripting a system that did this I'd use

scheduleevent(sleep, "onEventName", params);

to control the actions, a timeout isn't necessary. You can always cancel an event by using

cancelevents("onEventName");

Goodluck!

[Jman9912]

That's not a bad idea at all. I'll try to incorporate that. Right now i'm having problems with the keychecking. I know i'm doing something wrong, but can't figure out what.

PHP Code:

function fishingCast(bait) 
  {
    if (this.fishing ==1) 
    {
      setTimer(0.05); //Sets timer for freezing the player
      this.arrow = ShowArrows(); //Picks a random key 0-3
      this.fishingKey = GetKey(); //Check for a key being pressed
      echo("Keypressed = " @ this.fishingKey);
    } 
  }
  
function onTimeout() 
  {
    freezeplayer(6);
    setTimer(5);
  }
  
  
function ShowArrows() 
  {
    temp.arrow = int(random(0,3)); //Random key 0-3
    
      switch (temp.arrow) 
        {
        case "0":
        showimg(2001, "@Courier New@b@^", player.x+1.5, player.y-.5);
        break;
        
        case "1":
        showimg(2001, "@Courier New@b@<", player.x+1.5, player.y-.5);
        break;
      
        case "2":
        showimg(2001, "@Courier New@b@V", player.x+1.5, player.y-.5);
        break;
        
        case "3":
        showimg(2001, "@Courier New@b@>", player.x+1.5, player.y-.5);
        break;
        }
    return temp.arrow;
  }
  
function GetKey() 
{
 temp.keyPressed = NULL;
 while(temp.keyPressed = NULL) 
 {
    for (temp.key = 0; temp.key < 4; temp.key++;)
    {
      if (keydown(temp.key)) 
      {
        temp.keyPressed = temp.key;
      }
    
    }
  }
  return temp.keyPressed;
  
 } 


[cbk1994]

You can't use while loops like that in Graal; it will hit a max loop limit. Either way, it's best to just use the onKeyPressed event.

I would probably do it somewhat like this:

PHP Code:

//#CLIENTSIDE
function startFishing() {
  this.isFishing = true;
  this.onNextFish();
}

function onNextFish() {
  this.keyToPress = int(random(0, 4));
  
  this.cancelEvents("nextFish");
  this.scheduleEvent(3, "nextFish", null);
}

function onKeyPressed(code, key) {
  if (! this.isFishing) {
    return;
  }
  
  for (temp.i = 0; i < 4; i ++) {
    if (keydown(i)) {
      if (this.keyToPress == i) {
        this.caughtFish();
      }
      
      // next fish
      this.onNextFish();
      break;
    }
  }
} 


You'll need to add in images and such, and I haven't tested it so it may not work for some reason, not sure.