Difference between revisions of "OnActivate"

OnActivate (edit)

Revision as of 17:52, 13 July 2007

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Fixed notes on when activation occurs, added notes on nesting

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 '''Notes:'''
-*Using OnActivate will prevent normal activation of the object. To use the object's default activation you must call [[Activate]] on it. If you want to do something specific depending on what activated the object, use [[IsActionRef]] inside the OnActivate block.
+*Using OnActivate will prevent normal activation of the object. To use the object's default activation you must call [[Activate]] on it. If you want to do something specific depending on what activated the object, use IsActionRef inside the OnActivate block.
-*This block runs when the object was activated in the last frame. When an object is activated several times within the same frame (e.g. by a script using [[Activate]]) the game will ignore all activations but the last one. (I.e. the ActionRef will always be the one of the last activating object.)
+*This block (and perhaps the entire script --[[User:Haama|Haama]] 18:52, 13 July 2007 (EDT)) runs immediately when called from an external script. There were a few things that were posted before that this should clarify:
+#Activation occurs before the next line of code of the calling script is processed, and not in the next frame
+#Any number of objects can activate one object, within one frame, and they will all be run (though see notes on [[Activate#Nesting|Nesting]])
+*It's possible to nest activations. However, you can only have 5-6 nests at any given time (see [[Activate#Nesting|Nesting]] for more information)
 *The activator type of object has NO default activation.