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Rollout Timer properties
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  • Anubis
  • Posted: 30 August 2010 11:41 AM
  • Location: Sofia
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I detect (tested in Max 9 and 2009) that both “.interval” and “.active” props of the Timer are negligent before the rollout displayed.

rollout tm_test "timer test"
(
   timer clock interval:500
)
tm_test.clock.interval -->> 0 (often return zero but some time valies like 538983712) ?
tm_test.clock.active = off -- try to turn it off
tm_test.clock.active -->> true (no success)

createDialog tm_test
DestroyDialog tm_test
tm_test.clock.interval -->> 500 (OK)

-- also the .active can be set only while the dialog is open

My question is whether this is a bug or part of the game, thanks.


Max 9 through 2009, XP-Pro x64 SP2
ASUS EAH3450 Series (Driver 8.470).
Core 2 Duo E8400 3GHz, 4Gb Ram, DX9.0c.

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Probably part of the game. Reason being that until the dialog is actually created the timer doesn’t exist. After the destroy I can only imagine that the destruction actually takes a while - or doesn’t truly happen until the next garbage collection takes place.
I certainly wouldn’t trust the values returned from a component which shouldn’t, by rights, even exist any more.


Max 4.2 through 2013.
XP-64 (SP2)
NVidia 9800GTX-512 (Driver 266.58).
Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX9.0c.

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Thanks Steve, I agree. Now I test to get the value from spinner and see so it return zero, not the actual default value. Thanks again.

Here is something curious :)

rollout data "" (local val = 5)
data.val -->> 5
data.val = 12
gc()
data.val -->> 12 (it survive !)
Author: Anubis
Replied: 30 August 2010 12:24 PM  




   
 
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