item onUpdate running on an AI ship ??

[digdug]

I just encountered this problem, I might have an item on an AI ship that has onUpdate event on it. The event is running.

I'm happy with that but isn't onAIUpdate supposed to run on AI ships and onUpdate running on gPlayership only ?

or is that onUpdate runs on every spaceObject and onAIUpdate runs only on AI ships ?

[pixelfck]

I'm not sure about what was intended, but I noticed recently that the onUpdate event handler for an item gets fired, even when the item is, for example, in the inventory of a station.

[RPC]

I can confirm that OnUpdate on an item does indeed run when an item is on a station.
We might have to file a bug report on bug reports about onAIUpdate? :S

[PM]

OnUpdate is OnAIUpdate except that it includes the playership. OnAIUpdate is OnUpdate except that it excludes the playership.

If this is considered a bug and gets "fixed", apiVersion will need to change to avoid breaking mods that rely on current behavior.

[pixelfck]

From the sound of it, intrducing an OnPlayerUpdate event would be the backwards compatible method of clearing up the issue.

[digdug]

thanks for clearing this up guys, I don't consider it a bug, I was just confused. (I was 99% sure that OnUpdate was running only on the playership, silly me)

OnPlayerUpdate ? Eventually, but it's not needed. Just run a OnUpdate with a check like

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(if (eq gSource gPlayership) (run code))

to make the onUpdate code run only on the playership

[pixelfck]

I realized this after posting, yes. I usually apply the '(itmIsInstalled gItem)' check in the same fashion.