Function Being Ignored

#1 I guess the file functions.cs wasn't yet executed in the first example.

#2

Quote:or rather the system doesn't wait for the first to finish before doing the next

That is expected behavior in TorqueScript. All commands within a give set of curly braces will be executed simultaneously (or at least imperceptibly close to it). So in you main.cs, it would try to execute both of these at the same time:

functionA();
startGame(expandFilename($Game:DefaultScene));

You can put one in a schedule to delay the execution, or place it withing the previous, like you mentioned. Also, if the function has a callback, you can place it in there and it will be fired after the function call is complete.

#3 Jason, a lot of commands in TorqueScript are asynchronous, which you'd probably agree is a good thing for some functions, such as "walk to there" or "rotate this much". Others, such as addition or setting variable values, are synchronous

Generally, if you do

a();
b();

function a() will complete before function b() does, but the actions invoked by function a() might not. So if you have the functions

function a()
{
    $player.moveTo(leftSide);
}
function b()
{
    $player.moveTo(rightSide);
}

function a() will run through all its lines and exit and only then will function b() get called but the sprite will only walk right, never walking left. Why? Because about 2 milliseconds after you commanded him to walk left, you commanded him to walk right, which wiped out the earlier command

There are a lot of functions that operate asynchronously and it can create quite a headache if you want things to behave synchronously. i eventually wrote my own object, StepManager, to handle things like cut scenes and actions in battle (swipe sword THEN have the damage show up over their head THEN play the death animation)

#4 Even more - movement described above would not be shown as scripts are executed between frames - so none frame would be refreshed to show left movement.