The Dink Network

Hello

Does using external actually affect the spawned script? I would've thought it creates a new instance of it, odd.

"Is there a way to check if a script is currently loaded into memory/executing?"

Not as such, but you can save the script number to control it later. For example:

&global_var = spawn("timer");
//later
run_script_by_number(&global_var, "term");

What might be helpful to you is a way to know if a game is being loaded or not - that way you can spawn the timer if it's a loaded game and do nothing if the player has just walked onto the screen.

To do this, make a global &loadedgame or something. In the savebot script set it to 1 just before saving and set it back to 0 straight afterwards. Then in the main() of the savebot you can do:

if (&loadedgame)
{
  //It's a loaded game!  Do stuff
  spawn("timer")
}