Attribute in sting

rjh5000

Is it possible to use the display text to do something like this

You have game.lives left

so it then shows

You have 3 lives left

Thanks

DrGlickert

Yes it is.

Create an actor, Display Text behavior

click the "e" to bring up the expression editor and then click on the button that has a downward arrow, click game, then click on the game.attribute you want to display.

DrGlickert

Oh, I believe that the way to do that would be one of two ways;

2 actors, one that says "You have lives left" Then a 2nd actor with the number (just like I stated above).

Or, I think you can do it this way, "You..have"..game.lives.."lives..left."

That 2nd one may not be totally correct, but I think it's right.

rjh5000

DrGlickert said:
Oh, I believe that the way to do that would be one of two ways;

2 actors, one that says "You have lives left" Then a 2nd actor with the number (just like I stated above).

Or, I think you can do it this way, "You..have"..game.lives.."lives..left."

I'd been trying the 2nd way with (you have ) + game.lives

I'll try your way. I knew there would be a way to do it

That 2nd one may not be totally correct, but I think it's right.

rjh5000

The second way does work, but it puts .. as the spaces, I thought that might have been the syntax for space

Tried the first way too, sort of got it working but the second way looks much better except for the .. is there a way to get space in the string?

Found this
http://gamesalad.com/forums/topic.php?id=2861

Will try this next