text object

how flexible IS the text object?

i'm trying to setup a hp counter and the action i'm trying to use to achieve this is:

Text: Set text to RedCastle.Value('HPcurrent') + "/" + RedCastle.Value('HPmax')

the private variables are initialized to 100 each and with my knowledge of programming, should produce this:

100/100

but i get this instead:

200.

the period seems to automatically appear

logical error?

To remove the period, try setting HPcurrent and HPmax to int(); as for the incorrect result, use & instead of + for concatenation.

Text: Set text to int(RedCastle.Value('HPcurrent')) & "/" & int(RedCastle.Value('HPmax'))

Or so I would think.

well, whaddaya know! that works! haha

thanks for the help! <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" title="Very Happy" />

Just to shed some light on what happens here:

+ is arithmetic addition, which means adding numbers, or when used between a string and a string, text concatenation. & always means text concatenation eg. if you use 100 & "%" you get 100%. 100 + "%" won't work because it can't perform arithmetic addition.

The type checker allows RedCastle.Value('HPcurrent') + "/" because private variables can hold anything so the expression could be valid - it can't tell in the expression editor, it doesn't know the value of 'HPcurrent' yet.

So it ends up trying to do 100 + "/" at runtime which is invalid, so Construct does nothing (the left operand is unaffected by the addition). Hence 100 + "/" evaluates to 100. Then you add another 100 to it, which gives 200.

Tip: run a debug, and in this situation a message is added to the log.