Loop Detection scripting help please

[simduck]

Hi, I have loop detection set to [TRUE] in my command script. From this scrip I call another script which has to return a value.

I run the main script and get the following error in my log.

MESSAGE FROM SCRIPT ENGINE

Infinate loop detected, script terminated.

howie.shipcargo.check:16:1:0:82383405:0 while $SubType $TempSubTypes
Refobj:{ship script run from}, env {sector ship in}.

If I run this script using (r) and choose the ship to run it on, it works fine & returns the correct value.

Firstly, what do all of the numbers mean and secondly, if this script works independantly, why doesn't it work in a nested environment?

Thanks for your help.

[simduck]

bump...

Any one in the know?

[giskard]

Been going loopy my self.

BTW im not using loop detection.

I have had mixed success with loops. My own problem is trying to get a script called from a loop to send a value back to the loop to determine when it has finished running. The idea is for the script to run one mission at a time and wait for one to complete before running another one.

At the moment I either get the same script run 15 times in a second, run once and crash or just crash.

There are some definate oddities about X2 script that need explaining better I think. Still I am slowely sussing out all the little qerks of the game.

Giskard