Animation not restarting

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Jun 19 2015, 3:21 am (Edited on Jun 19 2015, 4:42 am)
(See the best response by Lummox JR.)
My problem is I'm creating a roulette, and it's dependent on the animation starting at the same point every time. For some reason, the firs time I do it, it starts at the right point. But any time after that, the animation starts at a different frame. Is there a way to make an animation start at the first frame every time?


mob/var/tmp/roulette=0
mob/proc
    Roulette()
        if(roulette == 1)
            roulette = 0
            for(var/obj/Roulette/M in client.screen)
                client.screen -= M
                del M
            return
        roulette = 1
        var/obj/Roulette/L=new()
        client.screen += L


This is a small example I put together to get my point across.

The problem is, it's creating the roulette, with starting points at random frames. I need it to start on it's first frame every time, or the roulette time is off.

I want the roulette is stay there forever until it's used again to delete it.


Edit: Make it go through the animation only once makes it start at the beginning every time. But I need it to go indefinitely, while starting at the beginning every time
Jun 19 2015, 10:16 am
Best response
Are you talking about an animated icon with a fixed loop?

If the icon does not loop a fixed number of times, that is if it loops indefinitely, it will not take the creation time of the obj into account. But if it is a fixed-loop animation, and obviously the obj is new every time, I would expect the new creation time to apply each time. It's possible (though premature to say for sure) that a bug could be in play.

Incidentally, the ==0 and ==1 tests on vars that can only be true or false is bad form. Just use if(roulette), not if(roulette==1). Likewise you'd use if(!roulette) in place of if(roulette==0). It's a good habit to be in because it makes your code more robust.
Jun 20 2015, 9:53 am
Normally that is how I would do it. This was just a quick example to show what I was trying to do. I do appreciate the help on this. Putting it on a fixed loop fixed it to my satisfaction
Jun 20 2015, 10:02 am
Ah, if it wasn't on a fixed loop it definitely wouldn't have behaved the way you want. Glad you got it working as you wanted it.
Jun 20 2015, 11:15 am
Indeed. Thank you