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Passing Variables to a GUI

by Krister Collin · in Torque Game Engine · 05/03/2007 (1:17 am) · 3 replies

I am new to Torque, but loving it.

My problem is that I have created a menu that appears once the user presses a key, however, I do not know any way (or if there even is such a way) to pass variables to the GuiChunkedBitmap so that I can have something that looks like:

Strength:
Intelligence:

etc...

Many thanks in advance
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Torque Owner Caleb
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#1
05/04/2007 (5:58 am)
Look in your starter.fps/client.scripts/endgame.gui file and you should see some stuff like this:
profile = "GuiContentProfile";
   horizSizing = "width";
   vertSizing = "height";
   ............
Well all those are variables. So if you want to add some new ones, put this after "tile = "0";":
strength = "someVariable";
   intelligence = "someVariable";
Of course, you would have to do this in your on file, this is just an example.

Torque Owner Martin Schultz
#2
05/04/2007 (7:11 am)
To extend Caleb's answer:

Just give your GuiChunkedBitmap a name like this:

new GuiChunkedBitmap([b]KristerCollin[/b]) {
   ...
   ...
   ...
};

Now you could later in code set or retrieve variables simply by accessing them via the name, like:

Setting new variable:
KristerCollin.aNewVariable = "bla";
KristerCollin.aSecondNewVariable = 123;
KristerCollin.strength = 5000;
KristerCollin.hasVisitedLondon = false;

Retrieve the variables:
echo("KristerCollin.hasVisitedLondon: " @ KristerCollin.hasVisitedLondon);
echo("KristerCollin.aNewVariable: " @ KristerCollin.aNewVariable);

Does that help?
Martin

Torque Owner Daniel Buckmaster
T3D Steering Committee
#3
05/06/2007 (12:14 am)
Also have a look at the GettingStarted.pdf. It shows you how to dynamically change GUI elements (a text value in this case) from scripts.