Mah? Error with my Verb.

ID:147297
 
Jul 8 2004, 2:47 pm
 
        say(msg as text)
            set category="Social"
            var/obj/speech_bubble/s=new/obj/speech_bubble(locate(usr.x,usr.y+1,usr.z))
            s.ata="[usr] says, [msg]"
obj
    speech_bubble
        icon='Speech Bubble.dmi'
        var/ata
        New()
            sleep(200)
            del(src)
        Click()
            usr<<"[src.ata]"


When I click the bubble, nothing happens.
Jul 8 2004, 2:50 pm
try defining ata as obj/var/ata
Jul 8 2004, 2:53 pm
In response to Wizkidd0123
Wizkidd0123 wrote:
try defining ata as obj/var/ata
Nope..
Jul 8 2004, 3:00 pm
FireEmblem wrote:
        say(msg as text)
>           set category="Social"
>           var/obj/speech_bubble/s=new/obj/speech_bubble(locate(usr.x,usr.y+1,usr.z))
>           s.ata="[usr] says, [msg]"
> obj
>   speech_bubble
>       icon='Speech Bubble.dmi'
>       var/ata
>       New()
>           sleep(200)
>           del(src)
>       Click()
>           usr<<"[src.ata]"

When I click the bubble, nothing happens.

your problem is probably the fact that the say proc never gets a chance to set s.ata because by the time your new proc is finished, the object is deleted. I would suggest adding spawn() to it and going from there
Jul 8 2004, 3:03 pm
In response to DarkCampainger
Thankings, my good man.