lua KeyValue Problem

[ExNusquam]

OK, this is definitely me being stupid, but I can't figure out how to make this work for the life of me. I'm trying to set this up so that the first helicopter trip drops units off, and the second trip picks them back up, using keyvalue to keep track of the state.

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val = ScenEdit_GetKeyValue('LZ')
 if val == 0
 ScenEdit_AddFacility('Test', 'Landing Zone', 248, 0 , 'DEC', '11.1973239792203', '49.0965833574316')
 ScenEdit_SetKeyValue('LZ', '1')
 if val == 1
 ScenEdit_DeleteUnit({side="Test", name="Landing Zone"})
 ScenEdit_SetKeyValue('LZ', '0')
 end
 

The event is firing...and the individual actions are working through the console...so I know that the problem is how I've implemented the keyvalue. Any help?

[Yokes]

Should the second "if" be an "elseif"?

I'm not very familiar with lua yet, but in many other languages an "if" statement can only be followed by an "else", "elseif", or "end" statement.

Yokes

[RoryAndersonCDT]

ORIGINAL: Yokes

Should the second "if" be an "elseif"?

I'm not very familiar with lua yet, but in many other languages an "if" statement can only be followed by an "else", "elseif", or "end" statement.

Yokes

Quite right! I'd recommend making sure that val is set to a value, if its the first time GetKeyValue is called on 'LZ' it might be blank. Also note that GetKeyValue will always return a string:

This might work:

val = ScenEdit_GetKeyValue('LZ')

if val == nil or val == ''
val = '0'
end

if val == '0'
ScenEdit_AddFacility('Test', 'Landing Zone', 248, 0 , 'DEC', '11.1973239792203', '49.0965833574316')
ScenEdit_SetKeyValue('LZ', '1')
end

if val == '1'
ScenEdit_DeleteUnit({side="Test", name="Landing Zone"})
ScenEdit_SetKeyValue('LZ', '0')
end

[ExNusquam]

No joy on that one baloogan...the event is firing, but nothing happens. I have ensured that the keyvalue is set using the console before it first fires. The individual events fire, but I can't seem to get it to work with the if/ifelse option.

[mx1]

Isn't the proper syntax in Lua like this?

if COND then
BLOCK
elseif COND then
BLOCK
...
else
BLOCK
end

It seems that then keyword is missing from both examples.

[tjhkkr]

ORIGINAL: mx1

Isn't the proper syntax in Lua like this?

if COND then
BLOCK
elseif COND then
BLOCK
...
else
BLOCK
end

It seems that then keyword is missing from both examples.

You beat me to it. [:'(][;)][:D]

[magi]

you guys are so smart.....