[SOLVED]:Next State skipping State

[MikeIsHere]

When I don't call nextState everything works fine but if I expliciatly call next state, then the next state I go to automatically goes to the next state after it without letting the player act

So if this is my States.php

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$machinestates = array(

    // The initial state. Please do not modify.
    1 => array(
        "name" => "gameSetup",
        "description" => "",
        "type" => "manager",
        "action" => "stGameSetup",
        "transitions" => array( "" => 2 )
    ),
    
    2 => array(
        "name" => "startState",
        "description" => "",
        "type" => "game",
        "action" => "stStartState",
        "updateGameProgression" => true,
        "transitions" => array("" => 200)

    ),

    // Note: ID=2 => your first state
    200=> array(
        "name" => "cutDeal",
        "description" => clienttranslate('Opponent must choose a card '),
        "descriptionmyturn" => clienttranslate('${you} must choose a card'),
        "type" => "multipleactiveplayer",
        "action" => "stCutDeal",
        "possibleactions" => array( "cutDeal"),
        "transitions" => array('done'=>3)
    ),

    3 =>array(
        "name" => "setDealer",
        "description" => "",
        "type" => "game",
        "action" => "stSetDealer",
        "transitions" => array('tie' => 2, 'winner'=>9)

    ),
    9 => array(

And I put nothing in the StartState function, then the game works as expected goes to step 200 where

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function stCutDeal() {
        // Just activate the selection
        $this->gamestate->setAllPlayersMultiactive();
    }

Then after all the players have chosen a card state 3 runs to set the Dealer for the game

However if I change my state 2 to something like

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"transitions" => array("cut" => 200)

and change startState to

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function stStartState () {
        $this->gamestate->nextState('cut');
 }

Then what happens is stCutDeal runs and the state stSetDealer also runs. I know this because I can put a var_dump("200 step") in stCutDeal and the error check in stSetDealer also runs and the game bombs

I do want to get to the point from step 2 where a choice is made based on game options

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"transitions" => array("cut" => 200, "auto"=>3)

[MikeIsHere]

I just want to add that I don't think the issue is related to this

Game "spontaneously" transition to a new state without user input
Make sure on php side you have no code after $this->gamestate->nextState(...) code. Because if you do accidentally have code that goes to another state it will cause another state transition without user interaction.

function selectField($field) {
self::checkAction ( 'selectField' );
if ($field!=0) $this->gamestate->nextState ( 'next' );
$this->gamestate->nextState ( 'last' ); // <-- here is missing else, so it will cause double state transition
}

Because again, I have only one line in my startState function

[vincentt]

Hi,

I would have suggested an action that trigger the next state...
Can you give your project name so we can give you a help on this (it will be quicker if we are able to see the whole code)
Thanks

[joezg]

Hi,
I'm pretty sure the problem is:

$this->gamestate->nextState( "" );

in setupNewGame function. Game goes automatically to state with id 2, so you must not call nextState in setupNewGame function.

Best,
Jurica

[MikeIsHere]

in setupNewGame function. Game goes automatically to state with id 2, so you must not call nextState in setupNewGame function.

Thank you this was it, and that line has been there from day one,