String concatenation only can assign first element.

TheDiabolicalMr4Dee

I created and attribute game.myName yet when I try to assign a concatenated string to it <char1>..<char2>..<char3> it only displays the first character. thus doing a displayText of game.myName I get <char1>

firemaplegames

I just tried it and it works fine.

Make sure you are choosing your attributes from the drop-down menu,i.e:

myText = game.char1..game.char2..game.char3

TheDiabolicalMr4Dee

i tried putting the concatenation in quotes but it returned gobblygook:

vars['self.attributes.id572726']..vars['self.attributes.909518']. . . .

firemaplegames

What exactly are you trying to concatenate?

game.char1 = A
game.char2 = B
game.char3 = C

game.myName = game.char1..game.char2..game.char3

Display Text: game.myName will display ABC

TheDiabolicalMr4Dee

hmmm. the only difference is that my strings were not on the game level. whereas your string is:

mytext=game.char1..game.char2..

mine are local:

mytext=self.char1..self.char2.....self.char12

basically I reimplemented your keyboard example for multiple text items so I made char1...char12 local to each actor consisting of a dislayText behavior, where the actors are named displayNameText, displaySchoolText . . etc. maybe i should try just making multiple sets of global attributes

myName=game.nameLetter1..game.nameletter2..game.nameletter3
mySchool=game.schoolLetter1..game.schooLetter2..gameschoolLetter3

TheDiabolicalMr4Dee

I just need to have the player type in their name and school. the keyboard works but I can't get the 12character max string to display anymore than the first character after user types it in.

jessicaleahy

I just tried it and it works great.

TheDiabolicalMr4Dee

yeah. looks like global is more reliable than local scope so this:

mytext=self.char1..self.char2.....self.char12

is not as predictable as:

myName=game.nameLetter1..game.nameletter2..game.nameletter3
mySchool=game.schoolLetter1..game.schooLetter2..gameschoolLetter3

Also I dont think the actor that contained the attribute was the prototype. It was an instance of the rototype in a scene. so I just deleted it and started fresh. hope this helps anyone having wierd scoping problems. My advice . . . when in doubt, go global :0)

jessicaleahy

Yes. You have a great point there. Going global is actually the best choice if you are not sure what to do.