Create "OR AND" statement?

Hi all

I might be a moment of stupidity but I'm trying to figure out how to do the following: (this is just sample code):

if((a==b) || (b==c && c==a)) {

MoveSprite();

}

I tried doing this in C2 - here is a screenshot:

<img src="http://i.imgur.com/D5Chp.png" border="0" />

which is actually the equivalent of:

if(a==b){

MoveSprite();

}

if (b==c && c==a){

MoveSprite();

}

The problem is that now when a==b and c==a, C2 fires on both conditions, as opposed to my one condition in the sample code. What I want to do is say "if the first condition block OR the second condition block", but since I can only do OR statements on single condition blocks it doesn't cover both cases.

Ideally I would want to do something like this:

<img src="http://i.imgur.com/33pMJ.png" border="0" />

Is there a way of achieving this? I feel like I must be missing something obvious or else people like Arima with their 10 bazillion event super-games would have run into this a while ago <img src="smileys/smiley17.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

The way I deal with it is I have a local or global 'or' variable before both events that first is set to 0, then gets set to 1 if the first event runs. Then check in the second event if the variable is one or zero.

So yeah, I have run into that situation before. :)

<font size="1">...might be 11 bazillion</font>

The other way I think, would be to have..

+ System a = b

+ System b = c (INVERTED)

+ System c = a (INVERTED)

..

+ System a = b (INVERTED)

+ System b = c

+ System c = a

unless you have many many conditions to check. Arima's is definitely the way to go in that case.

Arima: Ah, good to know I'm not going crazy <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle">.

I'll use a local variable for now, I'll just try not to let Uncle Bob find out <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle">

Thanks mate!

Ashley: Is there any chance of this being incorporated into C2?

boolean

Since no picking occurs in your example you can do it with:

System compare (a=b) | ((b=c) & (c=a)) = 1

Are you implying that loot pursuit's code is some kind of mess -

What was an issue was my inexperience designing code properly, which is how it turned into a tangled mess.

<img src="http://www.amirai.net/forums/Renaesad.png" border="0" />

Seriously though, I think Ashley said that it wasn't feasible to have c2 have multiple conditions for each section of an or block because of the way construct is designed.

Edit: or you could use the better suggestions listed above and below this post.

Or put an else in event 2.

a == b

else

b = c

c = a

R0J0hound = Very cool. I didn't know you could do OR statements right in the code! There are some sections I am picking (mainly for If overlapping X or overlapping Y and Z type logic). But still, very good to know.

Arima: Oh haha, mmm, let's see if I can dig myself out of that hole. I bet your code is amazing! And your fashion sense is impeccable! Yes, there we go. <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />.

In regards to C2 not being able to support it, fair enough. I get the feeling that little things like this seem easy to implement, but there enough C++ code running under C2 by now to make the moon landing look trivial.

ramones: Very sneaky. I'll give that a shot. That should over most of my situations I think.

Ugh coming from CC, I forgot about Else since it was a huge problem with CC. Good to know it's ok to use in C2!

Arima: Oh haha, mmm, let's see if I can dig myself out of that hole. I bet your code is amazing! And your fashion sense is impeccable! Yes, there we go. <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />..

Lol nice save XD