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Mychal B

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Posted: 25th Nov 2012 08:28 Edited at: 25th Nov 2012 08:29

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Hey guys,

So here is my problem. When I do my code like this...

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if game_state$ = "reload_directory"
    
    for i = 0 to directory_counter  
       current_path$ = current_path$ + directory(i)    
    next i

    set dir home_path$ + current_path$
    game_state$ = ""

endif

it tells me that the path could not be found. The debugger also shows the variable "current_path$" to be blank. If I do this though...

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  if game_state$ = "reload_directory"
    
   
    for i = 0 to directory_counter  
       current_path$ = current_path$ + directory(i)    
    next i
 
    wait 75

    set dir home_path$ + current_path$
    game_state$ = ""
    
  endif

then it works! What gives? Is it maybe that the command "set dir" is starting before the variable "current_path$" has been filled? Thanks for any help

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Sergey K

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Posted: 25th Nov 2012 13:11 Edited at: 25th Nov 2012 13:11

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directory(i) what is that?

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Mychal B

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Posted: 25th Nov 2012 13:47 Edited at: 25th Nov 2012 13:49

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I made an array named directory to store the path that has been followed to make it easier to traverse.

say i went to "media/people/cashiers"
it would store it as so...

directory(0) = "media"
directory(1) = "people"
directory(2) = "cashiers"

directory_counter holds the value of the last stored folder, so the array follows the path all the way to it

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Andrew_Neale

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Posted: 25th Nov 2012 15:42

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Well I'm not sure it is the issue you have at the moment, but shouldn't you be adding the slashes in whilst concatenating the directories? Otherwise you'd end up with "mediapeoplecashiers".

As for the problem that is magically resolved by forcing a pause, I'm afraid I'm not sure how to help with out some usable code to test with.