[FIXED] Archery Butte's bugged!

[stranf]

the "onUse" function checks to see if a character is in range, because of this it is impossible to use an archery butte.

When clicking on the archery butte, the c++ code says "This item is too far away to use". When you get close enough (point blank range) the .js code says "This is too far away, back up".

Robin Hood eventually gets tired and collapses and dies while running back and forth to find where he is allowed to shoot.

I am not sure how to fix this bug. I'm going to switch the "onUse" to "onAttack" and maybe if you double click the butte while in War Mode, the script will fire.

What are your thoughts?

[Xuri]

Known issue to me, and I'm not sure how to work around it. It started happening after some code was changed to make onUse work under the same conditions as the hardcoded double-clicking, i.e. can't use while dead, can't use while out of range, can't use rapidly (object-use-delay) - which in my own opinion sort of goes against the principle of the JS engine in the first place, seeing as it becomes (like in the case with the archery buttes) a limitation that you cannot work around without modifying the source code for UOX3.

[stranf]

maybe when Giwo or Grimson gets more time to code they can look into this.

I, like you, would like to have more power with the JS engine for onUse events.

I've thought of teleporting the PC to another remote area when dead and having different side quests (js scripted) available to ressurect the PC; however, this is impossible with the current hard-coded double click limitation.

Oh, and switching the code to <onAttack> does nothing, the c++ engine still thinks it is too far away.

[Grimson]

How about splitting "onUse" into "onUseChecked" and "onUseUnchecked"?

[stranf]

That sounds like a great idea to me. How hard would it be to implement?

[Grimson]

Give the new experimental build a try, but remember to change all occurences of the "onUse" event to "onUseChecked", or "onUseUnChecked" if you want to perform all checks in the script.

[stranf]

I have a lot of custom scripts,

will the "onUse" default to an onUsedChecked, so I don't have to reopen and edit every one of my scripts?

[Grimson]

will the "onUse" default to an onUsedChecked, so I don't have to reopen and edit every one of my scripts?

Nope, "onUse" is gone. Use an editor that can do search and replace over files if you have many scripts.

[Xuri]

Tbh, having the hardcoded one default to onUse would probably better, so we'd avoid bug reports dealing with onUse not working =P

[Xuri]

Archerybutte-script on CVS has been updated to use onUseUnchecked(), and works once more. Fixed.