fun with ladders and attachplayertoobj(). well, not really.

[calani]

People have done this before.
I just can't figure out how they managed it, and its rather annoying.

Anyway, here's my dilemma:

I have a ladder class that attaches players to it when they get nearby (inside x-1..x+1 and y-.5..y+8) and lets them move on the ladder until they go past one of the ends, then it detaches them. This works perfectly.
However, when I lay a second ladder, the first stops attaching, but the second works just fine. If I lay a third, that one works fine, but the second one stops working. I'm using attachplayertoobj(0,id) so I'm not sure why it only works for the most-recently layed ladder. Bugging the crap out of me, too.


Anyway, here's the class:

PHP Code:

// 2x8 ladder
//setshape=2,12
//in=-.5,8

function onCreated() {
  setshape(1,2*16,12*16);
}

function onActionRemove() {
  destroy();
}

//#CLIENTSIDE
function onCreated() {
  message("Don't touch, m'kay? ("@id@")");
  setimg("");
  showimg(1,"zodiac_ladder.png",x,y+2);
  findimg(1).layer=1;
  blockagain();
  setshape2(2,12,{0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,});
  setTimer(.05);
}

function onPlayerchats() {
  if (player.chat=="removeladders") {
    this.acctlist={"calani","jerret"};
    for(i=0;i<this.acctlist.size();i++) {
      if (player.account==this.acctlist[i]) {
        message("removing...");
        triggeraction(x+1,y+1,"Remove",NULL);
      }
    }
  } elseif (player.chat=="detach") {
    detachplayer();
    player.x=x+1.5;
    player.y=y-1.5;
  }
}

function onTimeout() {
  if (player.x in |x-1,x+1| && player.y in |y-.5,y+8|) {
    if (player.attached==false) attachplayertoobj(0,id);
    // do stuff
  } else  detachplayer();
//  message(player.attached);
  setTimer(.1);
} 


ps: the acctlist is going poof when I finish my staff sys - I'll replace it with a db query to get the current list of staff with the right to lay ladders