How to End Looping Scripts

[Yoshi021]

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Original link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKlPmxV8JgA&feature=youtu.be

So in the video I have a level where you have to hit all the blocks in order to advance. What I did was have a variable "blocks" set to 20. Then I made an event that will subtract 1 from the variable and trigger a script.

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If val(Blocks)=0 Then
  call TCreate("Lock", 0)
End if

Event "Lock" will hide the lock that is blocking the exit and play a sound effect. The problem with this is that when I trigger the script, it will continuously play the sound effect. How do I change the script so it only plays the sound effect once?

[Erwill]

Is your script is in loop ?

[Yoshi021]

How do I check if it is in loop?

[Sambo]

It must be in loop if the sound effect plays constantly.
Does the sound effect play for the whole test, or just after all the blocks are hit?
If it happens for the whole test, I don't know enough about this to help you.

If it just happens after all the blocks are hit, this is because Blocks = 0 for EVERY loop after all the blocks are hit, so it triggers the event on EVERY frame. Changing the value of Blocks to -1 (or anything other than 0) after triggering the event should fix the problem:

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If val(Blocks)=0 Then
  call TCreate("Lock", 0)
  val(Blocks) = -1
End if

Please note that I am not familiar with TeaScript, so the syntax I gave you might not be correct.

[Yoshi021]

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If val(Blocks)=0 Then
  call TCreate("Lock", 0)
  val(Blocks)=-1
ElseIf val(Blocks)=-1 Then
  Text(2).text = "BLOCKS REMAINING 0"
End if

Thanks, it does work.