Loading table values to Display Text

spidey906spidey906 Member Posts: 52
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Hi,

I try to load table values as the following syntax in display text but it's not working... Do I have to copy the table values to the attribute first or there is other way I can load values directly to display text with text in front. Thanks.

"x:  tableCellValue(game.Weapons.TBL,1,3)"

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  • LiquidGameworksLiquidGameworks Anchorage, AKMember, Sous Chef Posts: 956
    On the display text behavior, you open the expression editor (the little e), and insert tableCellValue(game.Weapons.TBL,1,3)
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  • spidey906spidey906 Member Posts: 52
    Thanks for the reply. Do you know if it is possible to put text before it? For example: Weapon Name: Gun. with the name gun loading from a table. Thanks.
  • LiquidGameworksLiquidGameworks Anchorage, AKMember, Sous Chef Posts: 956
    Yes, it'd look like "Gun"..tableCellValue(game.Weapons.TBL,1,3)

    The .. indicates a space. You can also do something like "Gun"..tableCellValue(game.Weapons.TBL,1,3).."is loaded!"
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  • spidey906spidey906 Member Posts: 52
    edited December 2012
    I got it. thanks.
  • spidey906spidey906 Member Posts: 52
    Oh. I got it. Thanks.
  • gyroscopegyroscope I am here.Member, Sous Chef, PRO Posts: 6,598
    edited December 2012

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    Hi, I'm sure @LiquidGameworks won't mind me correcting something: the two dots (..) don't indicate a space, they indicate concatenation (just a programming word for joining together).

    One way to get your space is to add it after and before the words in your example, like this:

    "Gun "..tableCellValue(game.Weapons.TBL,1,3).." is loaded!"

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  • LiquidGameworksLiquidGameworks Anchorage, AKMember, Sous Chef Posts: 956
    @gyroscope Thanks! :)
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  • tatiangtatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949
    And spaces in the expression editor are entered using option+space.

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  • RThurmanRThurman Member, Sous Chef, PRO Posts: 2,881
    For spaces you could also use the .."\32".. escape sequence. It would look like this:

    "Gun".."\32"..tableCellValue(game.Weapons.TBL,1,3).."\32".."is loaded!"

    Just for fun, you could use all the ASCI escape codes:
    "\71".."\117".."\110".."\32"..tableCellValue( game.TBL ,1,3).."\32".."\105".."\115".."\32".."\108".."\111".."\97".."\100".."\101".."\100".."\33"
  • tatiangtatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949
    It's optional to enclose those codes in separate quotes if they are concatenated with text:

    "Gun\32"..tableCellValue(game.Weapons.TBL,1,3).."\32isloaded!"

    Same as "first\nsecond\nthird" returns

    first
    second
    third

    But if you like your code clean, you might want to keep the quotes.

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  • RThurmanRThurman Member, Sous Chef, PRO Posts: 2,881
    @tatiang -- Dude! That's cool! I just tested it and this also works:
    "\71\117\110\32"..tableCellValue( game.TBL ,1,3).."\32\105\115\32\108\111\97\100\101\100\33"

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