Inserting a String into a custom speech GUI label

[shaun9991]

Hi guys,

I've got this code to replace the .Say function with .Saying, so I can have a custom gui with portraits and keep Lucasarts style animated sprite speech.

Code: ags

void Saying(this Character*, String message) {
  lSaying.Text = message;
  gSaying.Visible = true;
  this.Say(message); 
  gSaying.Visible = false;
}

The main character in the game can be named, and this is stored in a string called PlayerName.

With my adapted .Saying script above, the game crashes every time cEgo.Saying("....%s", PlayerName). Is there a way of incorporating the PlayerName string definition into the .Saying definition above?

Any help would be super appreciated.

Thanks,
Shaun

[Khris]

You need something like:

Code: ags

  lSaying.Text = String.Format("%s: %s", this.Name, message);

Afaik, only Character.Say() and Display() support inserting variables directly, for everything else you have to do it manually. There's no way to have a custom function that supports an arbitrary number of arbitrary typed arguments.

[shaun9991]

Thanks Khris, thats a massive help

I'll call it manually each time it comes up

[Snarky]

Yes, if you want to call Character.Saying() with the player name (or any other variable) inserted into the string, you should do something like:

Code: ags

  String msg = String.Format("My name is %s. Pleasure to meet you!", PlayerName);
  cEgo.Saying(msg);

You could also try:

Code: ags

  cEgo.Saying(String.Format("My name is %s. Pleasure to meet you!", PlayerName));

...but AGS can be a bit finicky about nested functions, so it may not work â€" I'm not sure off the top of my head.

[Khris]

I knew my answer was off but I couldn't figure out how

Snarky's second example is exactly what you're looking for. Compose the String first, then pass it to cEgo.Saying(). It will work perfectly fine without an intermediate variable.