Pass Object to Function - Scripting Help

[axeman]

Hi, am hoping some scripting guru can help me out here or point out why I am doing this the wrong way.

I am looping through houses within a distance with

_objHouse = nearestObjects [player, ["House"], 100];
{
} forEach _objHouse;

Within that I am <doing stuff> and want to call another function and pass the current house object to that function so I can reference that object (house) directly, with:

_x execVM "scripts\animate_lights_off.sqf";

The only problem is when into the function (animate_lights_off.sqf), if I, essentially, hint this select 0; I get the word any returned and not the usual array of info. from the house..?

I have tried all sorts of permutations with no result. I have considered looking for the house again once in the new function but can not guarantee I have the exact same house.

I must be missing something obvious here as no amount of Googling is helping..

 

[Xyberviri]

{_x execVM "scripts\animate_lights_off.sqf";}
forEach ((getPos player)  nearObjects ["House",100]);

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/nearObjects
http://www.kylania.com/ex/?p=87

Similar code:

_types = ["Land_PowLines_WoodL", 
          "Land_PowLines_ConcL", 
          "Land_lampa_ind_zebr", 
          "Land_lampa_sidl_3", 
          "Land_lampa_vysoka", 
          "Land_lampa_ind", 
          "Land_lampa_ind_b", 
          "Land_lampa_sidl"];
_lamps = getmarkerpos "powercoverage" nearObjects [_types select _i, 1200];
 sleep 1;
 {_x switchLight "OFF";} forEach _lamps;

 

[axeman]

That is, essentially, what I am doing. When I reference the _x from the new function by assigning _house = this select 0; I get the value any instead of the array of information about the house..

For now I have got round this by putting the code into the places on the main code page, obviously want to not have to repeat code though.

 

[Xyberviri]

you could try using spawn instead of execvm.

animate_lights_off compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "scripts\animate_lights_off.sqf"
 
_scriptTarget = nearestObjects [player, ["house"], 100];
{_id =[_x] spawn animate_lights_off;} forEach _scriptTarget;

Assuming that "animate_lights_off.sqf" takes "_someobject = _this select 0;"