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[Dan Peach]

Good day 

So, I have this custom method in the script of my caption window:

Code: WME Script

1.  
2. method DisplayCaption(var Text)
3. {
4.  var CaptionText = this.GetControl("caption");
5.  CaptionText.Text = Text;
6.  this.Visible = true;
7.  Sleep(5000);
8.  for(var i=10; i>=1; i=i-1)
9.   {
10.    this.AlphaColor = MakeRGBA(255, 255, 255, 25*i);
11.    Sleep(20);
12.   }
13.  this.AlphaColor = MakeRGBA(255, 255, 255, 0);
14.  CaptionText.Text = null;
15.  this.Visible = false;
16.  this.AlphaColor = MakeRGBA(255, 255, 255, 255);
17. }

So when someone clicks a hotspot, I send some caption text to this method, and the window becomes visible, displays the caption text, waits 5 seconds, then fades out and becomes invisible again.

This works fine initially, but the problem is if a player clicks another hotspot, it just runs this method again, whilst the first instance is still running, which means the window always goes invisible after the first 5 seconds are up. Making sense? Good. 

So, is there a way to cancel the first run through if a player clicks the same hotspot again or clicks a new hotspot, so that there is only ever one instance of this method executing at any one time?

Thanks.

 

[Dan Peach]

Ok, I seem to have solved this problem (for my simple purposes) by unloading the window, then immediately loading it again. Works ok now.