cChar.Say() doesn't animate [SOLVED!]

[Kweepa]

Hi,

I'm trying, with 2.71beta3, to get a character to animate when he talks.
Sounds simple enough...

I imported the WEIRD character from the RON resources.
He has a Normal view and a Talking view.
The talking view previews fine.

In on_mouse_click, I call
cWeird.RunInteraction(eModeInteract);
and in the interaction, I call
cWeird.Say("My name is George.");
The text appears, and the character changes view, but the cWeird.Frame never budges from 0 (there are four frames in the loop).
The talking speed is something reasonable, 1 or 4 (I tried both).

Anyone have any ideas?

Here's a zip of the offending game (source + compiled).
Approach the bum with the cursor keys and press the left mouse button when "Bum" appears in the status line.

[Gilbert]

Hmmm strange. I copied the game to a new folder, and delete all the other 3D related codes, the animation plays then. Has to be something in the codes.

[Kweepa]

Thanks!
I'll check that out.

So you just removed code - you didn't add anything?

[Gilbert]

Actually I'd found the cause now.

The reason is, the statusline GUI is a popup modal, so the game is always paused, which blocks the talking animations.
The reason it worked when I removed the code was that I removed also the gStatusline.Visible=True; line.

Just change the GUI to persistent or whatever and the animations (together with the rawdrawn sprite!) will work.

[Kweepa]

Thanks a lot, Gil!