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The call() method

by Rob Stiles · in Torque Game Builder · 08/24/2009 (1:24 pm) · 3 replies

Hi,

Can someone please explain why the following works

%this.object.jump();

but the following doesn't work?

%this.object.call("jump");

I can't seem to find any documentation on call().

Thanks,

Rob.
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Associate William Lee Sims
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#1
08/24/2009 (5:08 pm)
This is going to be unhelpful, but all I can say is that I am using call successfully in my code.

Since you have TGB, you mgiht try using the button behavior and making sure that works. It has a %this.owner.call(...) in it.

Torque Owner Rob Stiles
#2
08/24/2009 (5:35 pm)
Thanks for your reply :) I was actually modifying that file to allow me to call methods in other objects. Eventually I gave up on call() and used schedule() instead which worked without a hitch. I don't know if that's bad form or not though because I'm new to Torque.

Associate William Lee Sims
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#3
08/24/2009 (6:17 pm)
I've got dozens of games where I use %obj.schedule(0,...) to call a function (before I learned about the "call()" function itself). I wouldn't sweat it.