Topic: how to stop advancement of a script until only leftmouse is clicked (solved!)

[my2k]

Hi there.

I have a custom-ish dialogue script, cobbled together with the gracious help of threads on here!
Basically it displays a profile picture gui that you can position with a boolean, a background gui, and a text until a player clicks the mouse to advance it on to the next dialogue line.

Code: Adventure Game Studio

1. void DisplayDialogue(this Character*, String message, bool isprofleft, int textcolour)
2. {
3.    Dispgui.Visible = true;
4.   gBottomBar.Visible = true;
5.   gDialogue.Visible = true;
6.  
7.   TextDialogue.Text = message;
8.    TextDialogue.TextColor = textcolour;
9.  
10.     if (isprofleft == true)
11.   {
12.     Dispgui.SetPosition(45, 250);
13.   }
14.   else
15.   {
16.     Dispgui.SetPosition(520, 250);
17.    }
18.  
19. while (WaitMouseKey(1000)==0) {  }
20.  
21.  gDialogue.Visible = false;
22.   gBottomBar.Visible = false;
23.   Dispgui.Visible = false;
24.  
25. }
26.  
27.  

and, as said, it waits until you click the mouse to go to the next dialogue, which in-situ looks like this:

Code: Adventure Game Studio

1.   btnProfileView.Animate(3, 1, 10, eRepeat);
2.   cEGO.DisplayDialogue("this is test dialogue!", true, 62772);

   

however, since it's WaitMouseKey it registers keypresses as well, including useful ones like PrtScn and such. I want it to only advance forward when you click the mouse.

If I set anything to wait for a mouse click, it automatically skips right to the last line of dialogue, or it just pops up and then closes immediately, such as:

Code: Adventure Game Studio

1. while (IsButtonDown(eMouseLeft)==0);
2. {
3. }

gives me an error, and I don't know if I can declare anything outside of this function to bring INTO it, since it's the first one in globalscript.asc, and since it gets imported into all other scripts. There's on_mouse_click as well but that doesn't work within this either. I'm sure there has to be some kind of extremely simple thing that I can't find, and I've looked for hours now...


my question is this: I've tried a ton of different ways and none of them seem to work, is there a simple piece of code that would simply halt the script until you click?

thanks for taking the time to read, I appreciate it!

[Mandle]

Something like this?

Code: Adventure Game Studio

1. while (mouse.IsButtonDown(eMouseLeft)==0)
2.  {
3.  }

[Snarky]

Pretty sure that's gonna crash, Mandle: it'll loop infinitely during a single cycle, and trigger the loopcheck.

(Sorry, don't have time to address the problem properly.)

[Khris]

This should work:

Code: Adventure Game Studio

1.   while (!mouse.IsButtonDown(eMouseLeft)) Wait(1);

[Mandle]

Pretty sure that's gonna crash, Mandle: it'll loop infinitely during a single cycle, and trigger the loopcheck.

(Sorry, don't have time to address the problem properly.)

Yeah, I was really only correcting the missing "mouse." from his code to show him why he was getting the error. Kinda was leaving the rest after that up to him.

[my2k]

thank you for your help everyone!

This should work:

Code: Adventure Game Studio

1.   while (!mouse.IsButtonDown(eMouseLeft)) Wait(1);

I gave this a try and it works, but only for the first message. if I have multiple dialogues one after another, if I click to advance, it just just skips all other dialogues and terminates.

could it be a problem with the other part of the code, that defines what the dialogue is(last part of my main post)?

[Khris]

Right, use this:

Code: Adventure Game Studio

1. // global header
2. import void WaitMouse();
3.  
4. // top of global script
5. void WaitMouse() {
6.   while (!mouse.IsButtonDown(eMouseLeft)) Wait(1);
7.   while (mouse.IsButtonDown(eMouseLeft)) Wait(1);
8. }

In your script, just use WaitMouse();

[my2k]

Khris, thank you so much! What a simple solution! I didn't think I could use one function inside the other.

It works like a charm! Thank you again!