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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?

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.

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

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?

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.

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!