Text object "setText" not working.

#1 "setText" isn't an actual function for t2dTextObjects, you just have to use the field "text" as you have been. What do you mean by "fussy", or are you just fussy? ;)

Describe "jiggle" a little bit better. Are you using linear/angular/impulse velocities? Setting the position manually?

#2 Ok. so that piece of turd just didn't work when I called in inside a function 2 deep. Don't know why that would bug the text object.. but it did. I had one function calling a second one:

this doesnt work:

function first()
{
  second();
}

function second()
{
  textObj.text=$pBall.jumpPower;
}

this does:

function first()
{
  textObj.text=$pBall.jumpPower;
}

I sure hope I'm just an idiot, because I wasted a good 2 hrs of my life on this crap! venting finished. lol

#3 Ah Phillip. thanks for the reply. Didn't see that befor my last post. "Jiggling" is a happening because when I reset the text object quickly... "onUpdate", it fidgets on the mount somehow. I'm releasing a little steam since I have now found a funky way to get it to actually accept the values as I expect. I'll probably be able to work though the "jiggling" and will post the solution if I find it.

Shouldn't there be a setText or setValue function associated with that object to be more inline with the rest of the torque code?

#4 Here is the jiggling you questioned about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9yWIdbAURA
I just created a little vid

#5 With regards to your nested function issue, I suspect that you're not passing the object reference through the function. When you set the text, place an echo function similar to this:

echo( %textObjId SPC %textValue);

If you find that there is nothing there, then you need to double check your function arguements.

I suspect that you're physically changing the position of the object somewhere in the onUpdate function. If you're mouting/dismounting, this would definitely cause the problem.

#6 Here is the jiggling you questioned about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9yWIdbAURA
I just created a little vid

#7 "I suspect that you're not passing the object reference through the function"
Thanks for the suggestion. However, I was using a global variable so I don't think that was the issue.

On the jiggling side of things. I only mount it once.. and don't call any updates for the position. However it's possible I mounted to something that is getting updated frequently. I will take a peek at that.

#8 "I suspect that you're not passing the object reference through the function"
Thanks for the suggestion. However, I was using a global variable so I don't think that was the issue.

On the jiggling side of things. I only mount it once.. and don't call any updates for the position. However it's possible I mounted to something that is getting updated frequently. I will take a peek at that.

#9 Hmm. Well I have seen this kind of jigglin if you do update a position often.. but usually you can fix this by mounting to to whatever you are tracking. The renderer then keeps it in motion relative to other objects. However I have it mounted properly and am not updating it except to change the text. I think that somehow updating the text is causing it to somehow get out of sync as it moves. When your standing still it has no problems. I have it mounted exactly the same way a couple static2d sprites and they work right. I bet if I created my own text sprites they would work like a champ too.

** Anyone use the text2d object in motion and have it work/not work for you? **

thanks!
-nic

#10 Oh and ps.. I'm just a little fussy. Need to step away from the "puter" once in a while ;D