Gui Labels

[Moox]

From the Guide:

Interface text
You can easily display static text on interfaces. For example, the Sierra-style interface displays the score in the status bar.
To add text to a GUI, you add a label. Click the "Add label" button, then drag out a rectangle like you did when adding a button. You can change the text displayed in the label by editing the "Text" property. Notice that the text automatically wraps round to fit inside the rectangle you drew.

As well as typing normal text into the label, you can add some special markers which allow the text to change during the game. The following tokens will be replaced with the relevant values in the game:

@GAMENAME@Ã,  Ã,  The game's name, specified on the Game Settings pane
@OVERHOTSPOT@ Name of the hotspot which the cursor is over
@SCORE@Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, The player's current score
@SCORETEXT@Ã,  Ã, The text "Score: X of XX" with the relevant numbers filled in.
@TOTALSCORE@Ã,  The maximum possible score, specified on the Game Settings pane

Example: You have @SCORE@ out of @TOTALSCORE@ points.
The Properties window also allows you to align the text to left, right or centre, as well as change its font and colour.

I created a variable, exported and imported it into the script header. Now I want this variable to be displayed in a gui. How do I do it. From what I have tried it appears that @@ only applys to the listed variables.

[Ashen]

I think you have to use SetLabelText to display your own variables. If it's an int, you'll need StrFormat as well.

[Moox]

I get a undefined symbol error, this script is probably completely wrong

Code: ags

 // script for room: Player enters screen (before fadein)

string HPDISP;
StrFormat (HPDISP, "%d", HP); 
}

function room_e() {
 // script for room: Repeatedly execute
 
SetLabelText(4, 0, HPDISP);  
}

function room_f() {
}


function room_i() {

  // script for room: First time player enters screen
HP=100;  
}

[Ashen]

It all needs to be in rep_ex, for some reason:

function room_e() {
// script for room: Repeatedly execute
Ã,  string HPDISP;
Ã,  StrFormat (HPDISP, "%d", HP);
Ã,  SetLabelText(4, 0, HPDISP);Ã, 
}

It doesn't like strings or int declared in other functions. I guess HP is a globally declared int?

[Moox]

I would never have goten that, Thank You.

[Pumaman]

The other solution is to declare HPDISP as a global variable so that it can be accessed from multiple functions.