Stop move()?

[Starfire2001]

Is there an easy way to stop a move() before it finishes? Like for instance, a block will move to the right until the player chats something, at which point it will just stop moving entirely and it's x value will be the x value that it stopped at.

[Emera]

Not an expert, and I've not used move() a lot, but would calling it again cancel the previous one?

[Starfire2001]

Originally Posted by Emera

Not an expert, and I've not used move() a lot, but would calling it again cancel the previous one?

Nah, depending on what integer you put for the 4th parameter it will do one of a few things when you call move again, none of which seem to be what I want.

TServerNPC.move(float, float, float, int) - moves the npc smoothly, parameters are delta x, delta y, time and options: cache type (0, 1-cache, 2-append) + blockcheck(4) + eventwhendone(8) + applydir(16)

[DustyPorViva]

Have you tried:

move(this.x,this.y,0,0+8);

Since 0 does not cache or append movement it may just overwrite already existing movement caches and stop it.

[Cubical]

You could always use a timeout and move the x of the object until the player chats. II don't know exactly what you're trying to accomplish so its hard to tell the best way to go about it.

[Starfire2001]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

Have you tried:

move(this.x,this.y,0,0+8);

Since 0 does not cache or append movement it may just overwrite already existing movement caches and stop it.

Nope, it just instantly finishes the current movement and starts the next one from there.

Originally Posted by Cubical

You could always use a timeout and move the x of the object until the player chats. II don't know exactly what you're trying to accomplish so its hard to tell the best way to go about it.

Yeah, there are other ways I can go about what I'm doing. Just would have been simplest to do it this way.

Guessing there probably just isn't a way. Thanks everyone.

[ffcmike]

Doesn't manually editting X/Y automatically stop move();?

this.x = this.x;

[Starfire2001]

Originally Posted by ffcmike

Doesn't manually editting X/Y automatically stop move();?

this.x = this.x;

Wow it totally does. Thanks a bunch.

Must spread rep around

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Cubical

You could always use a timeout and move the x of the object until the player chats. II don't know exactly what you're trying to accomplish so its hard to tell the best way to go about it.

move is generally preferable to a timeout because it synchronizes the movement between serverside and clientside for smooth movement even if you have high latency.

[Tricxta]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

move is generally preferable to a timeout because it synchronizes the movement between serverside and clientside for smooth movement even if you have high latency.

That's pretty cool. Someone needs to put together a guide highlighting the advantages of using certain methods for certain applications(not all applications, but the most general, movement/search/etc...).

[Felix_Xenophobe]

have you tried hammer time