actor.cloneindex.animpos

[Oman]

Here's a question ive had for a long time.

If i wanted to write

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textNumber = player.1.animpos

Where my text actor (000 obviously would be its current text) would show player.1's animpos. This current code doesnt work.

How would i do this?

[skydereign]

You would need to get the Actor * first. Try this.

Put this in GobalCode

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Actor *
getCloneIdx (const char *cname, int cindex)    //g_GetCloneByIndex, its original name
{
    char buffer[50];
    sprintf(buffer,"%s.%i",cname,cindex);
    return(getclone(buffer));
}

Then to do what you want, it would look like this.

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Actor * PLAYER = getCloneIdx(player, 1);
textNumber=PLAYER->animpos;

What this does is declare an Actor *. It combines the name, first variable, with the desired clone, second variable. Then it returns the Actor *, allowing you to get the animpos.

[Oman]

does

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getclone("actorname.1")->variable

work aswell?

It seems to. I just stumbledupon it at ,http://game-editor.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5397

[Oman]

I attempted to do what i wanted your way and recieved the error shown in the picture below. Am i doing anything wrong?
i simply copy and pasted your code. Did i need to replace anything?

[skydereign]

Sorry about that, it was a typo, kind of. It should be like this...

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Actor * PLAYER = getCloneIdx(player.name, 1);
textNumber=PLAYER->animpos;

I think your method would work, this just makes it easier if you are doing this for clones. I didn't know your setup, so I defaulted to this. It is more versatile, but the other method should work.

[Oman]

Ahh ok, im currently using the one liner (mine) but if yours work (im assuming it does) then we have an embarrassment of riches! yay! lolz thx for the help!