scratch that acually, i fixed it and a new set or errors occured :

Carworld.dm:46:error:catagory:undefined var
Carworld.dm:47:error:icon:undefined var
Carworld.dm:47:error:oview:undefined var
Carworld.dm:47:error:icon:undefined var
Carworld.dm:47:error:icon_state:undefined var
Carworld.dm:47:error::invalid expression


ahehehe help?

Chibi_Gohan123 wrote:

mob/verb/Count()
set category = "Commands"
if (icon = '321counter.dmi' in oview, icon = '321counter.dmi', icon_state = "go")

There are a few problems here... firstly, that's not how to check for multiple conditions in an if() statement. It makes sense to us, but not to the computer. Instead of separating things with commas, you want to separate them with the "and" operator, "&&" (without the quotes obviously). Secondly, the equals sign (=) just by itself is the assignment operator; in English, it basically says "make the thing on the left equal the thing on the right". You want the equality operator, which is two equal signs; "==". It basically says "is the thing on the left equal to the thing on the right?". Thirdly, oview is a proc, not a var; so you need to use parentheses, like this: oview().

Go read my response to your other post: [link]

You just proved me right on every point. You're changing things at random to "fix" things, but you don't know what's broken and you don't know why your "fix" would work, if it did, which it didn't.

Quick hint: If you "fix" something and you just get different errors, you didn't fix anything, you just found a new way to break it.

icon == '321counter.dmi' in oview()

What the heck are you trying to do here?

What are you trying to accomplish? An icon can't be in oview()! A mob or obj or turf or area (also known as atoms) can be in oview(), and those things can all have icons, but the icon itself sure can't be.

And then you have:

, icon == '321counter.dmi' && icon_state == "go")

I'm not even going to guess what the heck you're trying to do here.

I couldn't begin to tell you how to fix it since your code is so garbled it's impossible to tell what you want it to do or even what you think it should do... so here's the best advice I can give you under the circumstances:

Actually learn how to code. None of this try stuff at random. Oh, I know, "But that's how I learn!" Well, no, it isn't... that's how you can avoid learning and still sometimes manage to seem to accomplish something.

If you want to try to explain, in plain and detailed English, what you're trying to accomplish, I'll show you how to do it... I'll lay down the coding techniques exactly... but I expect you to actually read the explanation much more closely then you read the code. The code is garbage. The code is transitory and can be written by anyone. It's the explanation that will keep you from coming back here the next time you try something new.

Okay. You've got two concepts way wrong.

One, like I said, an icon CANNOT be in your sight. Those things on the screen aren't icons. They're objects, aka ATOMS, aka areas, turfs, objs, and mobs. Do not think of them as icons. Icons are properties of atoms. Atoms have icons, but atoms are not icons.

Two, an if() statement determines if a chunk or line of code executes... not if the verb is available to the player. Using ifs() to determine if a verb is accessible doesn't work... it just makes it so the verb does nothing sometimes. You could put in else at the end and give a failure message, but that's kind of bass-ackwards. This is what "set src" is for. You make the verb belong to the obj or mob that you need in order to use the verb, and then set src accordingly.

If you don't already have one, you'll need to make an obj/321counter and set its icon.


obj
321counter //make a type of object.
icon = '321counter.dmi' //give it this icon
verb/count() //give it this verb
set src in oview() //can be used by players in sight of it.
flick(src,"go") //run src (this counter) through icon state "go" once.
usr.nogo = 1 //set the usr's nogo var to 1
src.verbs -= /obj/321counter/verb/count //remove this option for now.
sleep(3) //assuming there's 3 frames in the counter.
src.verbs += /obj/321counter/verb/count //give the verb back.

if (usr) usr.nogo = 0 //make sure usr is still there... usr could've logged out or died in the past 3/10ths of a second.


Of course, you need to make mobs have a nogo var:

mob
var
nogo = 0

And so far, all we've done with "nogo" is make it up and have the computer switch it back and forth when you use the timer. That by itself doesn't do anything except switch a var back and forth.

client
Move() //when the built-in movement is called by a player...
if (mob.nogo) //if nogo is on...
return 0 //then stop right here.
else //but if not
return ..() //then do the "usual thing"

Because Count is not supposed to have a capital C, possibly. Capitalization counts when making games in BYOND.

Your line reads "src.verbs += /obj/321counter/verb/Count" correct? Yet your verb is not Count(), but count(). Maybe if you change Count to count on those lines the compiler won't give you an error anymore.

Actually, using the exact code you provided I ended up with pretty much the same problem.
Apparently DM doesn't like atoms that start with a number. Calling 123counter a123counter, and changing all the references of it to the same, caused the errors to disappear.

sorry headress, i was on vacation for a week or so

back to busyness ^-^

ok i get what you are saying, but it gets me so frustrated and confused when it messes up and i don't what's wrong because the errors make no sense at all and when i try to fix them my self it make a bazillion errors to add to it here is my code and here are the errors that occur sorry if i have been a pest really!

obj
timer
name = "timer"

obj
counter //make a type of object.
icon = 'timer.dmi' //give it this icon
verb/count() //give it this verb
set src in oview() //can be used by players in sight of it.
flick(src,"go") //run src (this counter) through icon state "go" once.
usr.nogo = 1 //set the usr's nogo var to 1
src.verbs -= /obj/timer/verb/count //remove this option for now.
sleep(10) //assuming there's 3 frames in the counter.
src.verbs += /obj/timer/verb/count //give the verb back.

if (usr) usr.nogo = 0 //make sure usr is still there... usr could've logged out or died in the past 3/10ths of a second.


//Of course, you need to make mobs have a nogo var:

mob
var
nogo = 0

//And so far, all we've done with "nogo" is make it up and have the computer switch it back and forth when you use the timer. That by itself doesn't do anything except switch a var back and forth.

client
Move() //when the built-in movement is called by a player...
if (mob.nogo) //if nogo is on...
return 0 //then stop right here.
else //but if not
return ..() //then do the "usual thing"


Timer.dm:18:error:/obj/timer/verb/count:undefined type path
Timer.dm:20:error:/obj/timer/verb/count:undefined type path