Help with shield and sword please

[hitherekyle]

Hello! I kind of need some help with my Alice game. In the game I have a shield and sword. I need it so that when my shield is up, my sword cannot attack or do anything. When my shield is down, I need my sword to attack. However, I can not figure out how to do this. I can get both the shield and sword to do there thing, except it happens at the same time. Also, for some reason, my shield and sword loop there commands when there is no loop, I even added a loop statement with 1 loop and it still does the same thing. I got this to work before, and I swear I do not know why it's not working now. Thank you if any of you guys can help.

[hitherekyle]

Well this is really weird, I saved my project and loaded it up and now my its working like it is supposed to. I am guessing this was an Alice glitch.

[sfunk]

if you don't want to be able to block and attack at the same time, you will need an if/else statement and two variables(you can do it other ways as well but in this case i'll explain it this way), the best variable to use in this case would probably be a boolean variable. if you are not sure what that is. a boolean variable says whether or not that piece of data is true or false. so for your if/else statement, you would have

"if block == true"
set attack variable to false
do blocking animation
else:
set attack variable to true

What that means is if the "blocking" variable is true, only blocking will be allowed to happen, and for the else section, it means if the "blocking" variable becomes false, it will set your "attack" variable to true allowing to attack but not block.