<OnCreate> for ships?

[schilcote]

Is it possible to have an OnCreate in a ship's <Events>? I put one in and it worked without errors, but it didn't execute. It was stock code, the invoke for an auton, so the code is not a problem. How can I get code executed at startup?

[F50]

I'm pretty sure it should work. No, actually I *know* it works, code please?

[Periculi]

I use a simple test to start building event code:

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<Events>

<OnCreate>

(block nil

;now here I can use a variety of things.  
;A player message is one easy line

(objSendMessage gPlayer nil "Oncreate triggered")

;sometimes messages can't be sent when the object is created
;so you can instead create a piece of data to retrieve later

(objSetData gSource "createMessage" "Oncreate triggered")

;or if I want to test a function in a separate file I can call the function

(modTestFunction)

;or I can set a timer to call another event

(sysAddObjTimerEvent 100 gSource "TestTimerEvent")

)
</Oncreate>

<TestTimerEvent>
(block nil

(objSendMessage gPlayerShip nil "Timer event triggered")

)
</TestTimerEvent>
</Events>

[schilcote]

I just tried again to have OnCreate work

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<OnCreate>
			(ObjSendMessage gsource nil "Hello world!")
			</Oncreate>

And guess what?
"Welcome to transcendence!"
No hello world.
I might put an OnCreate caller in my mod of the ship computer mod...

The code for my other OnCreate is just the invoke for the mule auton in Transcendence.xml

As for code for the whole mod, you really don't want it. This mod is HUGE. It takes about five minutes for it to load (I have a custom TranscendenceMarch.mp3 and I have syncronised bugs (and therefore mods) with the music. The beat changes around the Ss) and it is very complex. I don't understand some of it.

And OnDestroy dosn't work either. I don't think any of the OnX routines workl.

[digdug]

And guess what?
"Welcome to transcendence!"
No hello world.
I might put an OnCreate caller in my mod of the ship computer mod...

if I remember correctly, you have to put a delay when the OnCreate is on the playership (so when the game is launched), otherwise it doesn't work.
So use the timer as explained by Periculi.

[Periculi]

;sometimes messages can't be sent when the object is created