Print stats on a GUI

#1 Create the appropriate console function that grabs maxForwardSpeed and then print it to the GUI like you would any other variable?

#2 If you are using a gui txt label, you will need to write a schedule for it too.

#3 Ok, I get that, but how do I grab maxForwardSpeed? I don't know whow to access any information stored by the player

#4 Do the starting out tutorial .pdf it tells you exactly how to do this, except it uses the players score.

#5 Except the "player's score" from that tutorial isn't a field stored in the player datatblock, it's a newly declared variable that is in a seperate script from the player. Here is the way you reference fields, I think (I'm also still fairly new at this):

I'm assuming your player is named "PlayerA"

// "Grab" PlayerA's MFS and assign it to variable %speedA
PlayerA.maxForwardSpeed = %speedA

// Echo the new variable to the console... or write any other funtion to put the variable where you want it
echo (%speedA)

Try that... and if someone sees something wrong here, please let me know so I can learn too. :)

#6

Quote:// "Grab" PlayerA's MFS and assign it to variable %speedA
PlayerA.maxForwardSpeed = %speedA

I don' know about TorqueScript, but in any other programming language that would try and set PlayerA's maxForwardSpeed to %speedA. So, assuming datablock variables can be altered like that, and %speedA being equal to 0 at the time of its creation, the player's maxForwardSpeed would be set to 0. If you flip the equation (%speedA = playerA blah blah), then %speedA would contain the player's maxForwardSpeed value.

#7 If you are only tracking variables, then guiTextCtrl allows that.

I needed something more than that and used the metrics("fps") functionality as a reference.

guiConsoleTextCtrl takes an expression that is evaluated and the resulting value is displayed as the text for the control. This is great for real-time tracking of variables or simple expressions (expressions are evaluated each frame so you don't want to do anything complex).

The expression can also be simply a variable, such as $platform, or a function call.

As an example, I'm using it to show joystick x & y coordinates in real-time.

Also updated the TDN wiki:
tdn.garagegames.com/wiki/GUI/Profiles/ControlList#GuiConsoleTextCtrl

As per the note stated, this control currently supports only 1 instance. metrics() creates 1 instance and then creates a string that concatenates everything into one line. However, this wasn't really what I wanted so I modified guiConsoleTextCtrl to keep its own string buffer (like guiTextCtrl) to support multiple instances.

I have submitted a resource to fix this, which is pending moderation by GG.

#8 Yes, Daniel is right about the order of assigning a value to a variable, sorry for the mistake :)