Unit:getCategory() return Object.Category?

[Theodossis]

As the title says. Isn't Unit:getCategory() supposed to return Unit.Category.* types?

https://wiki.hoggitworld.com/view/DCS_Class_Unit

[Grimes]

I know. It was reported back in June.

[Theodossis]

Thanks!

[dorianR666]

hi, is this still broken?

 

Unit.getCategory(object) seems to give me Object.Category instead of Unit.Category

[Grimes]

Yes, still broken. 

[SNAFU]

Still broken?

[Grimes]

Yep, still broken. 

[Branli]

Is this even going to be fixed? It really limits the verifying and conditional options in Mission Scripting / Mission Building...

[toutenglisse]

On 11/6/2021 at 10:27 PM, Branli said:

Is this even going to be fixed? It really limits the verifying and conditional options in Mission Scripting / Mission Building...

As pointed by @Grimes in this thread : 

You can use Unit:getDesc()["category"] and that will return the expected value you need (0 for plane unit, 1 for helicopter, 2 for ground unit etc...).

Edited November 16, 2021 by toutenglisse

[Branli]

9 hours ago, toutenglisse said:

As pointed by @Grimes in this thread : 

You can use Unit:getDesc()["category"] and that will return the expected value you need (0 for plane unit, 1 for helicopter, 2 for ground unit etc...).

 

Thanks for the Tip! For the time being i created an elaborate workaround to check what kind of unit it is, naming the group something like "AI-TANK-01" "AI-PLANE-01" and extract the category data from the group name, but this makes it much easier.

[Grimes]

29 minutes ago, Branli said:

Thanks for the Tip! For the time being i created an elaborate workaround to check what kind of unit it is, naming the group something like "AI-TANK-01" "AI-PLANE-01" and extract the category data from the group name, but this makes it much easier.

Group.getCategory should work just fine since it is not a subclass of the Object hierarchy.