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I have an actor that creates another actor, with this code:

CreateActor("Scroll", "icon", "no parent", "no path", -718, -41, true);

How can I give this new instance certain values? What I want to do, like I do in Game Maker, is this:

aa=CreateActor(...);
aa.variable=value;

I just want to affect this instance of the actor, not all of them, so I can't use Scroll's CreateActor event.

Thanks,
MiG3

Try this:

Actor *newactor = CreateActor("Scroll", "icon", "no parent", "no path", -718, -41, true);

newactor->yourvariable = value;

As soon as I put the actor declaration thing down, I got an error

Scroll_Effects[0]=0;

Actor *newactor = CreateActor("Scroll", "icon", "no parent", "no path", -718, -41, true);

Error: Unexpected declaration Scroll_Effects.

I got another error for

newactor.name = Scroll_Names[0];

Error: Illegal structure operation

Why is it saying that?

MiG3

Error: Unexpected declaration Scroll_Effects.

What is "Scroll_Effects"? is a string array?

newactor.name

newactor is a pointer, so, you must refer the mebers with '->' not '.'

newactor->name

And...

To copy a string you need use the strcpy function:

strcpy(string, "hello!");

Other problem, the actor's name is a read only variable, so, you can't change.

What is "Scroll_Effects"? is a string array?

Yes, it is. Don't see how it affects anything but yes. It worked fine before I had that declaration that came after it.

strcpy(string, "hello!");

That doesn't help very much. K. Look. He said

Actor *newactor = CreateActor("Scroll", "icon", "no parent", "no path", -718, -41, true);

Now, how do I use that whilst using strcpy? I need an example, because it doesn't make sense without one.

Thirdly, I tried this:

newactor->fire=1;

But alas, it decreed an

Error: Illegal Structure Operation.

This might have to do with the fact that the Actor *newactor command isn't working, and newactor isn't pointing yet, but just to make sure it's right, I'm posting it here.

MiG3

Is the fire variable an actor or global variable?
To works must be a actor variable.

It's an actor, and that line works now. I still don't know how to do the create actor thing though.

Could you post an example of the create actor thing?

Can you send me your game?

For some reason the computer I have the game on won't connect to this website at all. It keeps sending me to http://www.game-editor.com:19638/webhost/rollout/site.

Could you just type an example on how to create an actor, and change one of those actor's variables?

MiG3

I'm making some changes in the server, I think will be stable tomorrow.
I don't know what you need. The codes in this post must works:


Actor *newactor = CreateActor("Scroll", "icon", "no parent", "no path", -718, -41, true);

newactor->fire = 10; //If fire is an integer or real actor variable

MiG3 wrote:For some reason the computer I have the game on won't connect to this website at all. It keeps sending me to http://www.game-editor.com:19638/webhost/rollout/site.

Could you just type an example on how to create an actor, and change one of those actor's variables?

MiG3

It happened EVERYWHERE!