Help with the preferences

#1 Use Pref::selectedcar or something in the variable field;

#2 I' ve made it, but it doesn't happen nothing, and I was wondering if I must insert something else in the variable field.
And however how the engine understand what to insert togheter with pref::selectedcar?
I explain better:

In the name field, present in selectmission.gui, I insert my name and when you click Start Mission in the pref.cs file the name is written like $pref::Player::name = "XXXXXX"; but the control that you use is a GuiTextEditControl or something similar and obviously the variable field take the text you inserted, but if you apply this behavior to a button, because you want select a car, in which manner the variable field take the parameter to assign to $pref::selectedcar?

fiuuuu what a fatigue, please excuse my english a bit ugly, but I'm italian.

And thanks Billy L for the answer!

#3 I'm not sure a regular button (unless a CheckBox or RadioButton) uses the variable variable.
I would try and manually set the variable and see if that works, like.. in the function.

#4 Are you using a button or a textfield or something else ?

#5 You can try making a $pref::selectedcar variable, and make a number of different car datablocks(one for each car). then, you can add a swich statement where you are supposed to load the player into the game, and in each case you can tell the mission to start with a different car.(I'm not sure if this will work, I'm not a coder yet)

good luck,
lee-orr

#6 I dont know how your car choice is but here is a small example with 2 button and a textfield.

new GuiBitmapButtonCtrl() {
      profile = "GuiCenterTextProfile";
      horizSizing = "right";
      vertSizing = "bottom";
      position = "195 212";
      extent = "140 30";
      minExtent = "8 2";
      visible = "1";
      command = "car.settext(\"Saab\");";
      text = "Saab";
      groupNum = "-1";
      buttonType = "PushButton";
   };
   new GuiBitmapButtonCtrl() {
      profile = "GuiCenterTextProfile";
      horizSizing = "right";
      vertSizing = "bottom";
      position = "194 247";
      extent = "140 30";
      minExtent = "8 2";
      visible = "1";
      command = "car.settext(\"Volvo\");";
      text = "Volvo";
      groupNum = "-1";
      buttonType = "PushButton";
   };
   new GuiTextCtrl(car) {
      profile = "GuiHudTextProfile";
      horizSizing = "right";
      vertSizing = "bottom";
      position = "375 236";
      extent = "8 18";
      minExtent = "8 2";
      visible = "1";
      variable = "pref::selectedcar";
      maxLength = "255";
   };

And i do commercials for Swedish cars lol :)
Edit : deleted some stuff you didnt need .

#7 Thanks really guyz, your support will be mentioned when I'll finish this game, for now I'll try your suggestions, and soon you'll know the results.

Billy L: I'm using a button to select the cars, one button for each type of car.

Byez for now!

#8 OK I tried the proposals, and yes the one made of you, Billy L, worked fine, but now I don't understand why when I set the car selected to the prefs.cs file, this selection doesn't work, I explain better:

Now i have the correct car selected in the prefs.cs file, I recompile the prefs, when I left the selection screen, so the engine has the new prefs, but when the game starts, the car selected is always wrong, prehaps, I thought, that this was a problem linked with the fact that all the .cs files are compiled when the program starts, in particular, the file where I select the correct vehicle.cs is game.cs located in fps/server/scripts, the main game file, it's compiled or readed at the beginning of the program, and then?

I have a global variable ($carType = $pref::Car;) that has assigned the value found in the prefs.cs file and then this code is present:

switch$ ($carType)
{
case ultralight:
exec("./ultralight.cs");

case offroad:
exec("./offroad.cs");

case buggy:
exec("./buggy.cs");

case wmoto:
exec("./wmoto.cs");
}

it's seems to work if I write the cartype by hand, but it's works wrong if it must read the value from the prefs. argh I'm exploding!

Mmmh really I don't understand, nobody knows a car/man/airplane selector that works fine, I think that only studying it I can resolve my problem.....however thanks to all for help me find a solution!

Byez!

#9 Oky guyz, I tried everything and finally I've found the solution, thanks to everyone for the past help, if somebody want to know, I can exxplin in this thread the semi-solution I found, for now I can say only this few words, because my connection isn't a flat and it's too long to explain. Byez and good luck!

#10 Could you please post the full solution I am trying to do the same and cannot seem to figure it all out.

Thanks

#11 Actually I would really like to know this as well since I need to know how to assign a value to a preference via a function. In my case I need to store a global variable tha is also a string to a preference.

I have tried:

$pref::player::model = $pModel;

and that does not work. I get "" in my pref.cs.

#12 Yep excuse me for the absence on this thread, soon I'll post the solution I found, I need a connection and for now I'm out on an Internet Point, really ugly this thing. See you later!