Re: Requested feature: Remove unit event

[Jens Granseuer <jensgr@xxxxxxx>]

On 17.01.2005 22:21, Torinthiel wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 05:28:33PM +0000, Jens Granseuer wrote:
> > On 17.01.2005 00:21, The Fox wrote:
> > > it would be perhaps useful to have the Remove unit event. Especially 
> > > in tutorial missions where we may want to remove units in progress of 
> > > a mission. Or in missions with multiple goals (first deliver a unit 
> > > safely to some location, then kill all enemy units -- the unit can be 
> > > removed after reaching its destination).
> > 
> > Agreed. It's a little tricky, though. Currently, the 'Unit Destroyed'
> > trigger assumes that a unit has been destroyed if it can't find it.
> > We'd have to come up with a way to make it recognize units that have
> > only been removed to avoid unwanted triggering of destruction events.
> 
> Just a wild idea: Wouldn't it be easier to remove any event triggered by
> destruction of unit on removing of that unit? If it's possible (in the
> code of 'remove unit' event, not a separate event to be programmed by
> mapmaker) then it wouldn't require modifying much of existing code, as
> you won't have to change triggering of 'unit destroyed'.

That might be a possibility. I'll have to think some more about the
implications for dependent events, but it might work.

Jens