Problem with unit ownership

[DarkDenizen]

My problem is: I have a unit that is controlled with the arrow keys, therefore I have events that look like "Owner of (Mech 00) Presses the Left Arrow Key". These work fine when I give the player ownership straight up, but in my map I need to be able to take away the ownership and return it. Whenever that happens, the controll triggers stop working. What's the problem here?

 

[sonkan1]

well becous your camera trigger is triggered with a owner of mech 00 you shuld add run trigger (that camera trigger) to the trigger you use to "restore" the unit ownership with. try that (oh the run trigger is under trigger in the actions file=))

 

[DarkDenizen]

I'm not sure how running the trigger would have any affect, given that the trigger doesn't seem to understand that I actually own the unit. Or am I missing something? I DO know where stuff is in WE. I've been using it for a long time

 

[RedBlade]

Well, when u change ownership of the unit, just do Turn off the control keys (left, up , down , right). Then, when you ''Restore'' the ownership of the unit you just turn the trigger on again. (Always targeting the same unit)

 

[PurplePoot]

You need to understand how Events work to fix this --

Code only runs when it's told to. Thus, the "Create event" code only runs, logically, when it needs to Create the event (in this case at map initialization for all GUI triggers).

However, that means that it will run off whatever Owner of (Mech 00) was at the time. Since it doesn't ever run that initializer for the trigger again, it doesn't check back.

To fix this, try, whenever you change the ownership, doing this;

• Custom script: call DestroyTrigger( gg_trg_ArrowKeyMoveTriggerNameHere )
• Custom script: call InitTrig_ArrowKeyMoveTriggerNameHere()

replacing ArrowKeyMoveTriggerNameHere with your arrow key trigger's name

 

[RedBlade]

[~off topic~]PurplePoot ... can u pm me the Icon Maker plz ?

 

[PurplePoot]

That sort of thing should be sent as a PM in the future, but sure

EDIT: Can't attach to PMs, and I don't trust file dump sites. Post a thread formally in the request section and I'll attach it ><

 

[DarkDenizen]

You sure "call InitTrig_ArrowKeyMoveTriggerNameHere()" is right? I get an error saying that it expects a function name every time I use it.

 

[PurplePoot]

Whoopsie, if it's from a trigger below it it won't work.

Try

call ExecuteFunc( "InitTrig_ArrowKeyMoveTriggerNameHere" )

and remember, as I said before, to replace the name! Else this will cause a crash.

 

[DarkDenizen]

I'm only new enough to JASS to not be able to figure this stuff out for myself. I know to put in the names of my triggers. Thanks a lot for the help though.