holdActionAdd icon disapear

UI / UX

State

Open

Issue key

A3G-50

Access

Public

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Arma 3

Project

General

Creator

davidovitch

Created

Aug 30, 2026

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Issue Type

Bug/Error

Section

Game Version

2.22 (Current Stable)

Was this also present in the previous version?

I don't know / Not relevant

Severity

It would be nice to fix this

Section

Operating System

Windows

Windows Version

Windows 10

Description

Hi,

With this code, the progressIcon disappears when pressing "space" to trigger the actions.

I used the example code from the Wiki and kept only the minimal code needed to reproduce the issue.

The error seems to occur when there is a condition (same behavior with showCondition).

The goal is to be able to set certain conditions to control whether the actions are shown or not.

Have a nice day,
David.

[  player, 
 "Kill", 
 "\a3\ui_f\data\IGUI\Cfg\holdactions\holdAction_connect_ca.paa",  "\a3\ui_f\data\IGUI\Cfg\holdactions\holdAction_connect_ca.paa", 
"_target getVariable ['test', false] == false;",  "true",  { hint "Started!"; _target setVariable ['test', true, true]; }, 
 { systemChat str (_this select 3) }, 
 { player setDamage 0.5; player setVariable ['test', false, true]; }, 
 { hint "Afraid of death?"; _target setVariable ['test', false, true]; }, 
 [], 3, nil, true, false 
] call BIS_fnc_holdActionAdd;

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15 days ago

davidovitch
created issue15 days ago
julius
15 days ago
julius
15 days ago
Not this exact same bug, but another bug with holdAction is, is that when you add 2 hold actions to an object, 1 action will not have its action text.
1. Picture: The helicopter only has the custom Eject option
2. and 3. Picture: Was taken in the DAP Ghosthawk, it has both "Jettison Fuel Tank" and the Eject option.
The EJect option doesnt have its text shown tho, only the Jettison Fuel Tanks one

13 days ago

davidovitch
added tagUI / UX13 days ago

about 15 hours ago

schatten
about 15 hours ago
schatten
about 15 hours ago
@davidovitch, as soon as you activate the action, you immediately assign true to test variable, which blocks the action from being shown. So I don't see any bugs here.

@julius, the fix is in Capsule mod.

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State

Open

Issue key

A3G-50

Access

Public

Space

Arma 3

Project

General

Creator

davidovitch

Created

Aug 30, 2026

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[ player, "Kill", "\a3\ui_f\data\IGUI\Cfg\holdactions\holdAction_connect_ca.paa", "\a3\ui_f\data\IGUI\Cfg\holdactions\holdAction_connect_ca.paa", "_target getVariable ['test', false] == false;", "true", { hint "Started!"; _target setVariable ['test', true, true]; }, { systemChat str (_this select 3) }, { player setDamage 0.5; player setVariable ['test', false, true]; }, { hint "Afraid of death?"; _target setVariable ['test', false, true]; }, [], 3, nil, true, false ] call BIS_fnc_holdActionAdd;