Solved: Character's animation stops after dialog takes place

[myname]

Once the dialog starts between my player and NPC the NPC changes o his talking view which in turn has him stop his repeating view which is fine.  It is just that after the dialog stops the NPC will not resume his idle view.  Right now the NPC's animation is scripted like so:
cJasper.Animate(cJasper.Loop, 17, eRepeat, eNoBlock);

any suggestions?  Thank you.

[Radiant]

Code: ags

function repeatedly_execute () {
  if (cJasper.IsAnimating == false) cJasper.Animate (etc etc etc)
}

Also, there are specific functions for idle loops; look up "idle" in the AGS manual.

[myname]

Thank you for the reply but when I ue the code in the room script I get the error message:
'.IsAnimating' is not a publc member of 'Character'.
Any ideas or am I just being an idiot?

[Baron]

As per the manual, the code should read cJasper.Animating, not cJasper.IsAnimating.  But Radiant's right: idle animation would be the easier way.

Baron

[myname]

Thanks for the reponse BaRon but it is still not working.  The idle animation will not pick back up after the dialog is finished.  I am going to look through the manual again.

[Khris]

AGS has built in IdleView stuff, I'd use that instead of manually starting an eRepeat animation.
In general, if you want something to happen after a dialog, put a second RunScript action after the one calling the dialog, then put the code in there. (Won't work with 3.0 since you can't assign multiple functions to an event any longer.)

[myname]

Yea, that was much easier. Thank you KhrisMUC, BaRon and Radiant for your help.