Stop the #Loop

[Winters]

Hey all,

Okie heres the deal. I have this police siren that plays on a loop, i have added actions to the player in an effort to allow him to turn the siren on/off.

In my description.ext i added a sound named "off" thats attached to the added action for turning the siren off (although there is no actual sound called off) when i try to turn the siren off nothing happens.

I did this in an old mission with a CD Player and it worked fine but, the music that played from the CD player was not on a loop.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[RED]

Why not just put have the action menu stop the script looping? For example:

player addaction ["Stop siren", StopSiren = true]

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">
#start
~2
?StopSiren&#58; exit
playsound &#34;siren&#34;
goto &#34;start&#34;
[/QUOTE]

If you want to do it your way, why not just record silence for a second and use that?

RED

[The Real Armstrong]

Personally, I would use a number instead of a boolean here as it&#39;s much better when it comes to scripts.

StopSiren = 0
#start
~2
? (StopSiren == 1) : exit
playsound "siren"
goto "start"

[Artak]

Why is a number, that&#39;s stating an on/off value "much better than a boolean when it comes to scripts"?

[Winters]

Hmmm, some good idea there guys, i will check them out post haste

[Blanco]

Why is a number, that&#39;s stating an on/off value "much better than a boolean when it comes to scripts"?

It depends on the situation imo...when I only need an on/off status I use boleans, otherwise I use numbers

When you use a number , you are not restricted to two values (true or false).

In some cases this could be usefull

with boleans you do this :
in the init.sqs
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">
event1 = false
event2 = false
event3 = false
[/QUOTE]

In your scripts...
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">
?event1 &#58; hint &#34;event1 is active&#34;
?event2 &#58; hint &#34;event2 is active&#34;
?event3 &#58; hint &#34;event3 is active&#34;
[/QUOTE]

with numbers you can do this

in your init.sqs
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">
event = 0
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in your script

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">
?event == 0 &#58; hint &#34;none of the events are active&#34;
?event == 1 &#58; hint &#34;event1 is active&#34;
?event == 2 &#58; hint &#34;event2 is active&#34;
?event == 3 &#58; hint &#34;event3 is active&#34;
[/QUOTE]

Now you need only one global variable, with boleans you need three.

[Artak]

Yes, exactly Blanco.
I was trying to question The Real Armstrong&#39;s logic, but he&#39;s fled the country and taken his reasons with him.