[aaron priest]

After interacting with a GameObject, I need to wait for the ChatDialog to turn up. Any smart ways of doing that out there? Interacting with ChatDialog before there is one throws NullPointerException and I can't find anything that listens for such events.
The duration of the delay is dependent on the distance of the player to the GameObject that he interacts with.

 

[jhinn]

if(chatdialogue != null) {
// do stuff
} else {
// interact with gameobject
}

?

 

[aaron priest]

if(chatdialogue != null) {
// do stuff
} else {
// interact with gameobject
}

?

I've only accessed ChatDialog via the static modifier. Maybe I had a wrong understanding about its concept. How would you initialize the instance chatdialog of type ChatDialog? Does the default constructer retrieve any open ChatDialogs?

 

[jhinn]

I've only accessed ChatDialog via the static modifier. Maybe I had a wrong understanding about its concept. How would you initialize the instance chatdialog of type ChatDialog? Does the default constructer retrieve any open ChatDialogs?

Do you want to wait until a dialog is open? What kind of dialog are we talking about here? Screenshot?

 

[aaron priest]

Do you want to wait until a dialog is open? What kind of dialog are we talking about here? Screenshot?

Exactly. After Interacting with a GameObject that contains tools, I need to wait until the dialog is open before interacting with its options. The dialog itself is not more than the text: "Wich tool would you like?" and 4 options to choose from.

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[jhinn]

Exactly. After Interacting with a GameObject that contains tools, I need to wait until the dialog is open before interacting with its options. The dialog itself is not more than the text: "Wich tool would you like?" and 4 options to choose from.

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if(ChatDialog.getOption("Which tool would you like?") != null) {
// Chatdialog is there
} else {
// Interact with gameobject
}

 

[aaron priest]

if(ChatDialog.getOption("Which tool would you like?") != null) {
// Chatdialog is there
} else {
// Interact with gameobject
}

I've tried the same with

ChatDialog.getText();

, but that throws Nullpointer as well. But

ChatDialog.getOption("Trowel") != null

works, Thanks man!

 

[jhinn]

I've tried the same with

ChatDialog.getText();

, but that throws Nullpointer as well. But

ChatDialog.getOption("Trowel") != null

works, Thanks man!

If there is no dialog, and you try to search for ChatDialog.getText(), it will return null -> Resulting in that error.
Glad I could help.

 

[aaron priest]

If there is no dialog, and you try to search for ChatDialog.getText(), it will return null -> Resulting in that error.
Glad I could help.

If you don't mind me asking, is the reason because your way works and mine didn't the fact that I tried to equal check a string that is null (which is now that I think about it so obvious), and you check if the object is null (which obviously works)?

 

[jhinn]

When calling:

ChatDialog.getText()

You essentially asking for the text that the ChatDialog contains, but if there is no dialog, how can there be any text? This results in an instant NPE.
If you call:

if(ChatDialog.getText() != null) {

It will check if the contained text is not null. If it's not null you can do:

ChatDialog.getText();

Full code:

if(ChatDialog.getText() != null) {
// There is text!
ChatDialog.getText();
} else {
// There is no text / text is null
}

 

[aaron priest]

When calling:

ChatDialog.getText()

You essentially asking for the text that the ChatDialog contains, but if there is no dialog, how can there be any text? This results in an instant NPE.
If you call:

if(ChatDialog.getText() != null) {

It will check if the contained text is not null. If it's not null you can do:

ChatDialog.getText();

Full code:

if(ChatDialog.getText() != null) {
// There is text!
ChatDialog.getText();
} else {
// There is no text / text is null
}

Thanks, cleared up a lot!

Resolved/Answered.

 

[jhinn]

Thanks, cleared up a lot!

Resolved/Answered.

No problem. Good luck. For additional questions, you can always join the Developer Slack team. Be aware: We do not spoonfeed in there

 

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[silencep44]

if you want a more solid way to check if anything is covering the chatbox:

        String s = ChatDialog.getText();
        return s != null && s.startsWith(PlayerUtil.getPlayer().getName() + ": ");

returns true if nothing is covering the chatbox, don't think there is a single edge case (yet)