get holster status

[oddball]

is there a way to get the status of a player ? i wanna see it in a MP script if the player holsters his/her weapon

other question, as you know, a NIL causes probs in the scripts, is there a good way to get around it ? something like if(local.tester == NIL)
I tried that one but without luck.
it doesn't help to first set it on 0 in my script as it gets a Cvar, when that one is empty, it overwrites it and is NIL again.
So i need something to detect the empty one and then fill it..

[Rookie One.pl]

is there a way to get the status of a player ? i wanna see it in a MP script if the player holsters his/her weapon

Via state files, yes.

other question, as you know, a NIL causes probs in the scripts, is there a good way to get around it ? something like if(local.tester == NIL)
I tried that one but without luck.

Try again, it works. You should also check if it's not NULL either.

it doesn't help to first set it on 0 in my script as it gets a Cvar, when that one is empty, it overwrites it and is NIL again.
So i need something to detect the empty one and then fill it..

The getcvar command always returns a string. If a cvar is not set, you'll get an empty one - "".

[lizardkid]

Technically, since NIL and NULL both represent 0 as constants, aren't they interchangeable?

[mefy]

NIL and NULL are two completely different things which have nothing to do with 0.

NIL means a variable isn't set. NULL means it refers to an object that was deleted. They both would be considered 'false' in an if/while statement which is probably why people think they're 'interchangable'.

[Rookie One.pl]

That's right. They represent nothing. Absolutely nothing.

[oddball]

ok, can you give me more clues? like how i have to handle a state file..

and what about if its NULL ? keep on getting those errors

[Rookie One.pl]

State files are the mike_*.st files in the global directory. They're pretty straightforward.

NIL = a thing which never existed.
NULL = a thing which once existed but does not anymore.