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Old August 8th, 2018, 01:25 PM
I have an action button on a portal.
Code:
    <portal
      id="rollability"
      style="actBig"
      tiptext="Click to roll your ability scores.">
      <action
        action="trigger"
        confirm="This will reroll your base attributes. Proceed?">
        <trigger><![CDATA[
		  perform hero.assign[Helper.RollAbilities]
		  notify "Button Clicked"
		]]></trigger>
        <buttontext><![CDATA[
          @text = "Roll Abilities"
          ]]></buttontext>
        </action>
      </portal>
When the button is clicked the confirmation message does pop up. But, the Helper.RollAbilities tag is never assigned to the hero, and the notify never shows.

Am I missing something regarding the trigger?

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Old August 8th, 2018, 02:13 PM
You can't assign tags permanently with a trigger script - they'll vanish once the current calculation pass is done, because tag lists are always empty at the beginning of evaluation, and then the scripts assign more tags, and the button's script isn't running every single calculation pass. The script will have to change a user field or a persistent derived field, and then a script will look at that to determine whether to assign the tag.
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Old August 8th, 2018, 03:35 PM
Thanks Mathias.

I did try having an foreach pick loop in the trigger to step through each Attribute on the hero and modify a field, but that didn’t seem to work either.

Neither did calling a procedure that did the same.

Shouldn’t the notify statement run at least? Even if it’s the only thing in the trigger, no notification pops up.

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Old August 8th, 2018, 03:56 PM
Does the notify pop up the next time you make some other change - just enough to trigger a re-evaluation, like adding and deleting a space from the name?



If not, test whether commenting out line 1 of that script gets the notify working - could be that assigning a tag is really bad, but not something that's getting a warning, so HL just stops running the script.
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Old August 8th, 2018, 04:36 PM
No such luck....
Code:
    <portal
      id="rollability"
      style="actBig"
      tiptext="Click to roll your ability scores.">
      <action
        action="trigger"
        confirm="This will reroll your base attributes. Proceed?">
        <trigger><![CDATA[
		~declare variables that are used to communicate with our caller
		var NumOfDice as number
		var SizeOfDice as number
		var total as number
		var myVal as number
	
		NumOfDice = 3
		SizeOfDice = 6
		~call DieRoll
		var i as number
	
		total = 0
		for i = 1 to NumOfDice
		  total += random(SizeOfDice)
		  next
	  
		if (total <= 3) then 
		  myVal = -2
		elseif (total <= 5) then 
		  myVal = -1
		elseif (total <= 8) then 
		  myVal = 0
		elseif (total <= 11) then 
		  myVal = 1
		elseif (total <= 14) then 
		  myVal = 2
		elseif (total <= 17) then 
		  myVal = 3
		elseif (total <= 18) then 
		  myVal = 4
		  endif
			  
		hero.child[abilAccuracy].field[trtBase].value = myVal
		]]></trigger>
        <buttontext><![CDATA[
          @text = "Roll Abilities"
          ]]></buttontext>
        </action>
      </portal>
the trtBase field is defined as:
Code:
    <field
      id="trtBase"
      name="Base Value"
      type="derived"
	  persistence="full"
      defvalue="0">
      </field>
There is no change to the value in trtBase after confirming the trigger. (most of the content is in the DieRoll procedure, but as the call DieRoll didn't seem to work, I moved the rest into the trigger directly.

Thing is, I'm not seeing a difference between what I have, and the same type of portal from the sample In Play tab.

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Old August 8th, 2018, 05:20 PM
Ok, one thing I notice is that each other instance of the triggers are part of portals that are in templates.

I try modifying it to part of a template:
Code:
  <template
    id="baRoll"
    name="Roll Abilities"
    compset="Ability"
    marginhorz="16"
    marginvert="3">
	
    <portal
      id="rollability"
      style="actBig"
      tiptext="Click to roll your ability scores.">
      <action
        action="trigger">
        <trigger><![CDATA[
		~declare variables that are used to communicate with our caller
		var NumOfDice as number
		var SizeOfDice as number
		var total as number
		var myVal as number
		NumOfDice = 3
		SizeOfDice = 6
		call DieRoll
	  
		if (total <= 3) then 
		  myVal = -2
		elseif (total <= 5) then 
		  myVal = -1
		elseif (total <= 8) then 
		  myVal = 0
		elseif (total <= 11) then 
		  myVal = 1
		elseif (total <= 14) then 
		  myVal = 2
		elseif (total <= 17) then 
		  myVal = 3
		elseif (total <= 18) then 
		  myVal = 4
		  endif
		  
		hero.child[abilAccuracy].field[trtBase].value = myVal
		herofield[acCashCfg].value += 1000
		]]></trigger>
        <buttontext><![CDATA[
          @text = "Roll Abilities"
          ]]></buttontext>
        </action>
      </portal>
At this point, when I click the 'button' I get:
Quote:
Use of a trigger script requires a valid pick context be established
and also, the buttontext doesn't show on the button....

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Old August 9th, 2018, 06:50 AM
For that error, please show me the <templateref/> down in the layout element where this template has been placed.
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Old August 9th, 2018, 06:58 AM
I had a feeling I might be missing something there, but couldn’t figure out what....
Code:
<templateref template=“baRoll” taborder=“60” />
And..... I think I see what’s missing. Would I need to add a thing=“” entry for it? If so, would it be actor or the ability component?

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Old August 9th, 2018, 07:01 AM
Since you have a line in there that's modifying abilAccuracy, I'd use abilAccuracy. That way, that line can be changed to:

field[trtBase].value = myVal


The actor should also work.
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Old August 9th, 2018, 07:50 AM
Thank you!

I’ll give that a shot when I get home this evening...

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