Dynamically choosing an attribute based on values...possible???

beaudoin_n

Hi,

I am trying to save about a bezillion keystrokes with this cry for help.

I created attributes .. a lot of attributes with number coding
Is it possible in my object to have 2 attributes , a and b
assign them each a value
a=1
b=2
And then use that to incorporate in a rule

Rule
If game.ab = x then
this would translate to my game attribute called game.12

So the rule would become
if game.12 = x then

I hope i ask clearly and correctly.. sometimes i type as if i talked.. specially when in english.

Thanks again for your help.

JGary321

Instead of doing something like a=1, b = 2, make a a degree of 10.

So a = 10, b = 2
rule if game.a + game.b (12) = x then

i would think this would work.

beaudoin_n

It is more like i have
game.12
game.34
game.17
game.11

And i want to assign one of those based on the condition of a and b

so if a=1 and b=2 i want to assign game.12 to x
but if a=3 and b=4 i want to assign game.34 to x

or i want to have rules like
if game.12 > 99 display text bla
if game.12 = something then destroy
etc...

so since my group will want to check against this game.12 attribute when a=1 and b=2
I'd like to be able to go something like
game.'a''b'
or even
game.tata'a'bobo'b'
resulting in game.tata1bobo2

rebump

What you're looking to do is akin to dynamic statements in languages like Perl, using "exec()" in SQL, etc. where you generate a language statement from values in a variable. From my four days playing with GameSalad, I think you will have to settle for a solution such as what JGary321 offered up.

If you don't want to change 'a' into a ten's place edition of the value (i.e. maybe you already are using the one's place digit values all over in your project), you could just change the conditionals to something like:

if ((game.A * 10) + game.B) = 12 then...

Similar things are done to emulate a set of flags for an entity but they usually do it in Base 2 instead of Base 10 so you can use boolean logic for bit position testing and such.