Embarrassing IF-THEN-ELSE question

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I am almost pulling my hair out.

I am playing around with an If-Then-Else condition for an hour now and cannot make it works. I made few test and I can’t even make the simplest one to work. (In a sqf file)

Entance1 being a building, if I do this it works correctly

_d = getdammage entrance1;
hint format ["%1",_d];
if (_d<1) then{hint "not dead"} else {titletext["Dead","Plain"]};

But if I do it this way (different indentation), it behaves really strangely (I receive both the hint and the title cut, meaning that both the If and the Else parts are executed.

_d = getdammage entrance1;
hint format ["%1",_d];
if (_d<1) then
{
hint "not dead"
}
else
{
titletext["Dead","Plain"]
};

I tried to put ; at the end of both the hint and the titletext lines …resulting in the same effect.

Am I stupid or I am missing something? I looked at many scripts without understanding what I am doing badly.

ps: I am using Arma Edit 1.3 as the editor

[Mr_Centipede]

Try this:

_d = getdammage entrance1;
hint format ["%1",_d];
if (_d<1) then
{
hint "not dead";
}
else
{
titletext["Dead","Plain"];
};

incase you didn't notice a difference, its semicolon ( ; ) in the bolded part

[frag]

Try this:

_d = getdammage entrance1;
hint format ["%1",_d];
if (_d<1) then
{
hint "not dead";
}
else
{
titletext["Dead","Plain"];
};

incase you didn't notice a difference, its semicolon ( ; ) in the bolded part

I tried it also (look at the end of my original message). I wonder if it could not be a bug with the "hint" call or such. I will make further testing tonight, but I have to say that I am really tired playing around a simple if.

I wonder if one of you guys could try this out for me and tell me if you have the same result.

[Shuko]

When you say you get both hint and titletext, do you mean you see the damage or the "not dead" text?

_d = getdammage entrance1;
if (_d < 1) then {
  hint "not dead";
} else {
  titletext["Dead","Plain"];
};

[Mike84]

You use exec or execVM?

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You use exec or execVM?

[] exec "scripts\test.sqf"

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When you say you get both hint and titletext, do you mean you see the damage or the "not dead" text?

_d = getdammage entrance1;
if (_d < 1) then {
  hint "not dead";
} else {
  titletext["Dead","Plain"];
};

I see the hint"Not dead" appearing and the title text as well. Considering it is an If-Then-Else condition, I should see only one.

[Mike84]

[] exec "scripts\test.sqf"

That's your problem. Use execVM next time.

[Big_Daddy]

use execVM

exec thinks your running a SQS script, even if it's called sqf. sqs has a different format. which is why when in a single line it worked.

[frag]

That's your problem. Use execVM next time.

use execVM

exec thinks your running a SQS script, even if it's called sqf. sqs has a different format. which is why when in a single line it worked.

You are the dudes!

Thanks a lot! It makes sense! I will try it on later on tonight.

But is the execVM will run asynchronously? I guess that if I have to keep the thing synchronous I will have to change my syntax in the script to use exec instead of execvm.

Thanks again guys, this forum is a bless.

[Shuko]

You can just use call to run it in the same thread if you need to make sure something is done asap. Or you can start a new one with execvm and add a waituntil at the start to wait whatever is needed.