Hello - I'm having a few little problems with AGS, my main one right now being a listbox problem. I've set up a listbox which values are
max - 30,000
and the current value is
current 10,000
By clicking a button here or there, I can reset the value to 10 or 376, for example, but I want - at times, the script to be able to change the value.
My listbox is called "pureprofit", and what I wanted to do was at a certain point in time (I have the timer working) for the listbox to add "profit", and the code I thought would work was;
pureprofit.value = pureprofit.value + 250
But that gives me a "struct" error or something, saying it's not possible. So instead I tried to assign a globalint with the value "250" and get pureprofit to reset it's value to that global int, but then I'm getting messages saying "value" isn't a public member of slider.
Well, this has totally confused me! Is there any alternatives? Could I structure a profit bar in any other way that would allow me to more easily modify when it changes? I haven't been able to find any other compenents that have a value that work on a GUI - as the pureprofit bar sits on a GUI.
Any ideas or help appareciated :) Thanks for listening!
2 words, m0ds: Case sensitivity
Value with a capital V
I am not clear as to what you are trying to do. A listbox doesnt have a "value"; it has a list of items. If you are trying to add a new item then you would do something like this:
pureprofit.AddItem("The item string");
It almost sounds like you want a bar graph of some sort. This can be done using a slider or a button. To use the slider you would do something like the following:
pureprofit.Max = 30000;
pureprofit.Min = 0;
pureprofit.Value = pureprofit.Value+250;
To use a button for this you need to import a big sprite In this case one that is 100 pixels wide into the button's normal graphic and then do somethng like this.
int profit=10000;
pureprofit.Enabled = false;
pureprofit.ClipImage = true;
profit = Profit +250;
// For a horizontal bar that is a maximum of 100 pixels wide.
// For a bar of different max a little more math is required
pureprofit.Width = (profit*100)/30000;
Hope this helps.
Thanks, SHH.
Thanks RickJ! Sorry, I got it wrong, I was talking about a slider, and yes, I had forgotten the capital letters. I will have more questions regarding LISTBOXES later today though, I can sense it! :P
Are you sure these questions shouldn't be in beginners tech, m0ds ;) :P
Feel free to move if you want :P Just be glad I'm actually using AGS :P It's all advanced sheet to me!!!!
My new main problem is that I want a label to be able to express the value of my slider. It's currently set to 30,000 so I want a label on the same GUI to express "30,000" - but I can't get it to work. I presume this uses INTS and stuff....I remember trying to get this kind of thing to work in Delphi & that took me two weeks...
Any suggestions?
myguilabel.Text=String.Format("%d", variable_containing_my_number);
Don't forget #agstech, too, if you want interactive help, Mark
Thanks SHH. I put it in my repeatedly execute but the following code produces an error - Text is not a public member of label.
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profdisplay.Text = String.Format("%d", pureprofit.Value);
Which version are you using? If 2.7 rather than 2.71, you might need:
string temp;
StrFormat(temp, "%d", pureprofit.Value);
profdisplay.SetText(temp);
I think...
Works a treat! Thanks SSH :)