Suspicious pointer error :D?

[Hblade]

strcpy(CHAONAME, strlen(CHAONAME)-1);

This gives me an error ^^ Anyone mind helping out? I'm trying to make a "backspace" button haha.

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     sprintf(CHAONAME, "%s", strlen(CHAONAME)-1);


This code crashes GE XDD

[lcl]

strlen() returns an integer, not a string, so your code should be:

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sprintf(CHAONAME, "%i", strlen(CHAONAME)-1);

[Hblade]

strlen() returns an integer, not a string, so your code should be:

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sprintf(CHAONAME, "%i", strlen(CHAONAME)-1);

Thhhanks! +1

Edit: LOL now all it does is change the text actor to "however many letters in the string" XD then 0 O-o

[lcl]

Yeah, lol I understood your problem just after posting that. I'm now solving it for you.

EDIT: It first seemed that you wanted just to show the amount of characters and that's why I got confused.

[lcl]

Here ya go:

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CHAONAME[strlen(CHAONAME) - 1 * (strlen(CHAONAME) > 0)] = NULL;

The * (strlen(...)) part is for that otherwise it'd try to set CHAONAME[- 1] equal to NULL when strlen is 0. And that naturally causes error.

[Hblade]

Thanks dood!

but it keeps the first letter D: I think I can fix this though ^^

Well, it keeps it lol but it gets overwritten so its good

Thanks a bunch man!

Fixed ^^

[lcl]

Thanks dood!

but it keeps the first letter D: I think I can fix this though ^^

I found this problem too, but you can get around of it by changing you sprintf() to strcpy(). (The one that shows your CHAONAME. )

EDIT:
Thought to explain more accurately..

So, like:

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strcpy(text, CHAONAME);

It seems that for some reason, the sprintf() doesn't work with the actors text all that well compared to strcpy().
I don't really know why it works only with strcpy():

EDIT 2:

Well, it keeps it lol but it gets overwritten so its good

That sounds like spritntf() doesn't refresh the text actors text as it should, because while I was testing my code, another text actor showed that string was empty, but the one I was erasing showed still the first letter..

[Hblade]

Yeah but I fixed it now =) I added a simpel if script

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if(strlen(CHAONAME)>0) {
//make chaos name appear }
else {
//eithe rmake the text blank, but in my case change the text to "NO_NAME"
}


the text "NO_NAME" does not effect the CHAONAME varaible =)