Wierd function return problems on custom class

[Drew]

This is really wierd. I'm trying to return from a function my custom class variable, but when I do that it only returns the default values, even though I KNOW that's not what I returned, since I've been logging and debugging everything TONS in the past 4 hours.

I have a custom class that inherits from info, lets call it myThingy. I call an accessor function that owns that object to return it, like this:

Class myBot extends xBot;

var myThingy myOwnThingy;

function changeThingy()
{
  // do LOTS of stuff here to change the values
}

function returnMyThingy()
{
  return myOwnThingy;
}

------------------
Class somethingElse...

function doSomething()
{
  local myThingy differentOne;
   differentOne = myBot(bot).returnMyThingy();

  // but it just returns to me the default class values!!
}

So basically, when I try to return my custom class variable from any function, it only returns the default values and not the values of the var I tried to return!! And this isn't even a replication problem, so I'm real confused. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I even went as far as trying to overload the = operator because I thought maybe that might help, but I couldn't get that to work either. *sigh*

[Corran]

you've got to change:

function returnMyThingy()
{
  return myOwnThingy;
}

to

function myThingy returnMyThingy()
{
  return myOwnThingy;
}

Or fi you were trying to return a float, you'd do:

function float returnMyFloat()
{
  return MyFavouriteFloat;
}

I assume that is what you mean.

[Wormbo]

For more general information about returning values from functions see UnrealWiki: Function Syntax.

[Drew]

thanks for the reply guys

Actually, it turns out the return variables were working fine, but somehow the variable I was initializing got erased accidentally a bit later, so when I returned it, nothing was in there.