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OnWake/OnSleep functions not working...[RESOLVED]

by Orion the Hunter · in Torque Game Builder · 12/07/2012 (8:33 pm) · 4 replies

Guess who,

I was wondering how to get the onWake and onSleep functions to work. The console gives me no errors whatsoever to work with. Also, I know that such a function exists after referring to several other pre-made scripts (that I didn't make). I'm probably just writing the code wrong. So I have this loading gui and I'm trying to make it so that when it's woken up it will load the level. Here it is:

//--- OBJECT WRITE BEGIN ---
%guiContent = new GuiBitmapCtrl(NowLoadingGui) {
   canSaveDynamicFields = "0";
   isContainer = "1";
   Profile = "GuiDefaultProfile";
   HorizSizing = "right";
   VertSizing = "bottom";
   Position = "0 0";
   Extent = "1024 768";
   MinExtent = "8 2";
   canSave = "1";
   Visible = "1";
   hovertime = "1000";
   bitmap = "~/data/images/nowloading.png";
   wrap = "0";
};

function NowLoadingGui::onWake()
{
_newGame();
readFile();
echo("Loading...");
}

function NowLoadingGui::onSleep()
{
echo("Done.");
}
//--- OBJECT WRITE END ---

None of the echo functions come up...

Thanks!
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Torque Owner Richard Ranft
Roostertail Games
#1
12/07/2012 (10:52 pm)
Are you pushing the gui object to the canvas? ( Canvas.pushDialog(NowLoadingGui); )?

Orion the Hunter
Fritterflames
#2
12/08/2012 (5:49 am)
What? You need to push it?

Torque Owner Richard Ranft
Roostertail Games
#3
12/08/2012 (7:50 am)
If you never show a gui it never wakes. The way to show a gui is to push it to a canvas or create a new instance of it and add it to an existing gui object. So yes.

// displays a fullscreen gui (or a non-fullscreen gui will be displayed fullscreen).
// onWake() will be called.
Canvas.pushDialog(MyGui);

// removes the gui.  onSleep() will be called.
Canvas.popDialog(MyGui);

// adds a gui to another.  onWake() will be called.
MyCurrentGui.add(MyGui);

// removed a gui object from another.  onSleep() will be called.
MyCurrentGui.remove(MyGui);

Orion the Hunter
Fritterflames
#4
12/08/2012 (9:41 am)
I usually use "set content" but I guess that's not the same... Thanks, I got it working now! :)