Passing strings between actors.

[jazz_e_bob]

I have an actor - redZombie.

I have defined a local string for actors called creator.

When my redZombie is created it runs the script:

CreateActor("redZombieBase", "base", "no parent", "no path", 0, 0, false);

How do I pass the name "redZombie" to the base actor?

ie

redZombieBase.creator = name;

[makslane]

Use this:

Actor *newActor = CreateActor("redZombieBase", "base", "no parent", "no path", 0, 0, false);


strcpy(newActor->creator, "redZombie");

[jazz_e_bob]

Thanks mate!

[jazz_e_bob]

This works:

Actor *newActor = CreateActor("redZombieBase", "base", "no parent", "no path", 0, 0, false);
strcpy(newActor->creator, "redZombie");

How come:

newActor.mylocalvar = 100;

doesn't work?

[makslane]

Try this:

newActor->mylocalvar = 100;

[jazz_e_bob]

Will do.

Thanks Makslane.

[jazz_e_bob]

Heh heh

How about:

debug_02->text = name;

( error - pointer required )

How do I make this work?

[makslane]

strcpy(debug_02->text, name);