The Dink Network

void main (void)
{
int &per1;
int &per2;
external("duck1", gvoice);
&per1 = &voice;
external("duck2", gvoice);
&per2 = &voice;
wait(500);
say("hello dink &per1", &per1);
say("don't listen to him dink", &per2);
}
what could be wrong with this script. &voice is a global variable and the duck1 script looks like the following

void gvoice (void)
{
&voice = sp(25);
}

25 being the sprite's editor number that the script duck1 is attached too.

the same exact thing for duck2 only it is sp(26);

I recall the command as external("duck1","gvoice"), but feel free to slap me if that's wrong

Ya, external("","");
quotes on both.
Nice way to use one global to chage multiple locals.
Try//duck1
void gvoice (void)
{
&voice = &current_sprite;
}
Seems to me the sprite # is what you can look for. You could even use the same 'duck1 script for multiple sprites since that first script changes locals sequensialy.

Oops, no they will need separate scripts. In fact, doing it this way may not work with external. If I remember right external makes that procedure act like it is part of the first script, so &voice would get set to the first sprite.
I'd just use a global for each, they could be reused elsewhere as long as that's the only thing they do on that screen.

I thought external ran the proc in the script and then killed it after it was run. I knew i would need a seperate script for each but it would be better then using globals.

well I was correct this script works so you only have to define one global variable and both sprites were now able to be totally controlled.
void main (void)
{

int &per1;
int &per2;
wait(500);
external("duck1", "gvoice");
&per1 = &voice;
wait(500);
say("hello dink &per1", &per1);
wait(500);
external("duck2", "gvoice");
&per2 = &voice;
wait(500);

say_stop("don't listen to him dink", &per2);

wait(500);
say_stop("hello again", &per1);
wait(500);
say_stop("you stupid", &per2);

}

I did some more testing to see what the least amount of work had to be done to make it work.

int &per1;
int &per2;
int &per3;
wait(100);
external("duck1", "gvoice");
&per1 = &voice;
wait(100);
external("duck2", "gvoice");
&per2 = &voice;
wait(100);
external("duck3", "gvoice");
&per3 = &voice;

this will work for as many sprites as you want. I think this can be used for other things two so if you just want to use one variable to create a number of different variables in a script you could use this method.