How do I write out numbers but not add them

MattButlerStudios

I am making a game in which I hit a button and a number is added to a table. The number however, when added should not be added to the existing value (EX: 1+3=4) but placed next to it (1+3=13). How can I make this happen?

fadamion

are you saying you want something like. ..1..3 i believe in the mac version. im not entirely sure as i just came from windows and its was "*"

RThurman

The table cell type should be 'text' rather than a number.

Then you change the table cell value using this formula:

tableCellValue( game.Table 1 ,1,1).."3"

Notice the two dots before the "3". This tells it to concatenate the following "3" to the previous number in the cell.

MattButlerStudios

@RThurman‌ are the "" required also?

RThurman

@MattButlerStudios said:
RThurman‌ are the "" required also?

No, they are not required. (Just an old habit of mine.)

MattButlerStudios

@RThurman‌ thanks a lot for this response. You answered my question exactly!

RThurman

Here is a quick demo.

Socks

@MattButlerStudios said:
I am making a game in which I hit a button and a number is added to a table. The number however, when added should not be added to the existing value (EX: 1+3=4) but placed next to it (1+3=13). How can I make this happen?

Besides the method @RThurman suggests you could also use a simple bit of maths which is:

(*10)+N

So in your example the variable N is 3, so we start with 1, multiply it by 10 to get 10 and then add 3, so we get 13.

Or if we had 8+7 . . . . 8x10 (=80) +7 (=87).

Or if we had 9+9 . . . . 9x10 (=90) +9 (=99).

Or if we had 2+6 . . . . 2x10 (=20) +6 (=26).

. . . . etc

Although this method, unlike the one suggested by @RThurman doesn't do N numbers bigger than 9 . . . . well, actually it does, but it becomes a little more involved as for every additional digit on the N side of the equation you need to multiply the first part by an additional x10 . . . so 122 + 76 would need to be (*100)+N . . . .

But as another quick and easy method (*10)+N might be useful in some situations

RThurman

@MattButlerStudios said:
RThurman‌ thanks a lot for this response. You answered my question exactly!

You are welcome. Glad its working for you.

@Socks -- great solution! That way it remains an integer. (Although GameSalad seems to handle attribute type conversion just fine.) Instant steal for me!

MattButlerStudios

Thanks for the responses guys. I really appreciate this great support forum that gamesalad has!

SlickZero

@Socks said:
(*10)+N

So in your example the variable N is 3, so we start with 1, multiply it by 10 to get 10 and >then add 3, so we get 13.

Or if we had 8+7 . . . . 8x10 (=80) +7 (=87).
Or if we had 9+9 . . . . 9x10 (=90) +9 (=99).
Or if we had 2+6 . . . . 2x10 (=20) +6 (=26).

. . . . etc

Although this method, unlike the one suggested by @RThurman doesn't do N numbers >bigger than 9 . . . . well, actually it does, but it becomes a little more involved as for >every additional digit on the N side of the equation you need to multiply the first part by >an additional x10 . . . so 122 + 76 would need to be (*100)+N . . . .

But as another quick and easy method (*10)+N might be useful in some situations

I tried to see what I personally could figure out and do with this information, and this is what I came up with -

Socks

@RThurman said:
Socks -- great solution! That way it remains an integer. (Although GameSalad seems to handle attribute type conversion just fine.) Instant steal for me!

Yeah, GameSalad deals with text attributes in a very flexible sort of way, I was surprised to discover a while back that you can thrown a text attribute (if it is a number) into an equation and it will handle it as a number just fine - so as a simple example adding two text attributes, let's say 50 and 62, will return 112 (which itself can be stored in another text attribute if you want) - which is great, as I'd instinctively expect some sort of error message, saying invalid attribute or something like that, I'd would have thought a text attribute would not be recognised as a number, but as text (even if it was a number).

Socks

@SlickZero said:
I can count to potato