Script Error - Concatenation and Strings and Variable Names oh my!

#1 You can't write something like %var.%othervar, because of syntax. That would have to be written as %var.othervar. However, there's a few problems with this script...

for (%i = 0; %i < $GameData.Partysize; %i++)  
{  
    %var = "$GameData.Party.Character" @ %i+1;  
    %pname = "PName" @ %i+1;  
  
    %pname.text = %var.name;  
}

You should take the quotes out from around $GameData, as it's a variable, and you can still concatenate it with %i+1 (%var stores it as a string). Once that's done, %var should hold the character reference given by $gamdata.party.character%i (%i being a number), and then when you call %pname.text = %var.name, it should insert the name into the text.

As for PName, what you probably want to do is %pName[%i] instead of %pname = "PName" @ %i; because you can still work with it as an array, since the problem that threw you off had to do with using quotes with the other variable. Hope this helps.

There are tutorials as well as a very good scripting reference that can help sort you out on these issues.

#2 Well, I tried with the concatenation without quotes such as

%var = $GameData.Party.Character @ %i+1;
%pName = %var.name;

but that didn't work eiter.

However, I got it fixed! Thanks for your help.
I didn't realize that objects named in the world editor such as item1 item2 item3 could be accessed as arrays like items named that way in script.

I was able to just do

pname[%i+1].text = $GameData.Party.Character[%i+1].name;

and it worked great!

#3 I could of swore this worked.. I just tried it when I replied and I thought it was.. now it's giving me errors. Maybe it 'doesn't' work that way. I might of been getting confused by a pre-compiled script. Grr. I'll keep working on it.

#4 Ahh, 1 part did, 1 part didn't.

seems that objects named in the editor such as Item1, Item2, Item3 cannot be accessed via script as arrays like Item[%i], Item[%i+1]. But, if you have a item named in script as an array such as Party.Character1 you CAN access it as in Party.Character[%i]

so, for my code, it works like this...

%item = "pName" @ %id;
%item.text = $GameData.Party.Character[%id].name;
%item.visible = true;

#5 You're right. I need to stop post too soon after waking up ;)

Glad it worked out for ya!

#6 Note that for objects named in the editor you can use the nameToID function, like so:

for(%i = 0; i < %numObjects; i++)
{
   %item = nameToID("Item" @ i);
   %item.whatever = 10;
}

#7 Woohoo. Thanks David for that awesome bit of info.