SendMessage once while true, then dont send it again till its true again

Unity Engine
1

Pretty much what I asked. I have this problem where the function happens over and over again, and so it acts funky. I only want it to send the message once every time it is true

2

if ( bool ) {
SendMessage
bool = false
}

or

var sent : boolean = false;

if ( bool !sent ) {
SendMessage
sent = true
} else if ( !bool sent ) sent = false;

3

I cant understand why it doesnt work, it only does it once, and it doesnt reset its self

4

Post your code, it’s probably just a minor logical oversight.

5

Did you use SendMessageOptions.DontRequireReceiver? Just a thought!

6

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7

Yep! you need to use this option in your send funtion: SendMessageOptions.DontRequireReceiver

8

why? what will that do?

9

that didnt work.

10

Well, on a second thought you really don’t need SendMessageOptions.DontRequireReceiver. I am wondering why are you sending these messages rather then calling these functions directly? Are you broadcast these messages to other game objects as well?

11

no, that is the only way i know how. i did not know that you could do that.

12

The SendMessageOptions.DontRequireReceiver just suppresses an error message if there’s no script to receive it.

Your usage of “boolean” is incorrect:

else if (bullets <= 0  boolean  !reload) {
if (!boolean  reload) {

those lines make no sense.

What do you want to do? Prevent a second call to reload until the first one completes? In that case:

else if (bullets <= 0  !reload) {
	reload = true;
	SendMessage("Reload");
	SendMessage("InvokeReload");
}

function Reload () {
	animation.Play("reload", PlayMode.StopAll);
	yield WaitForSeconds(animation["reload"].length);
	bullets = clipSize;
	reload = false;
}

I would have directly called Reload, but maybe there’s some asynchronous processing going on there with the yields and the SendMessage. I’m not going to touch any of those with a 10 foot pole.

EDIT; [quote=JM Studios, post: 465141]
no, that is the only way i know how. i did not know that you could do that.
[/quote]

Reload();
InvokeReload();

13

thanks, it worked!!