error line(6): Variable '[' is already defined.

[Joseph DiPerla]

This is the code: function room_a() {
  // script for Room: First time player enters screen
Character[cHomer].Think("What am I going to do?");
 
}

And the topic is the error I get. Sounds newbieish. What am I doing wrong?

[Joseph DiPerla]

You know what... I just figured out. I feel like an idiot. The script language changed and I have to the new scripting, which makes the script into : cHomer.Think. Sorry. You could delete.

[monkey0506]

You don't have to use cHomer.Think... you could do Character[cHomer.ID].Think if you really wanted to.

[strazer]

Actually, I think it would be character[cHomer.ID] or character[HOMER]. But of course the cHomer shortcut is much nicer.

[Joseph DiPerla]

Actually Monkey, I tried those, and thats what also gave me this error for some reason.

[Gilbert]

Use cHomer as recommended by many then, it should work.

[Ishmael]

Which AGS version are you using?

[monkey0506]

Actually Monkey, I tried those, and thats what also gave me this error for some reason.

Well that's because I accidentally used a 'C' instead of a 'c', as strazer pointed out.  "Character" should be used when defining a pointer, i.e., Character *chara = Character.GetAtScreenXY(mouse.x, mouse.y).  "character" is the globally defined array of all the characters in the game.

[Joseph DiPerla]

I was using AGS 2.71 beta 4. I got it working now. Like I said, I dropped the Character[cHomer].Think to cHomer. Think and it worked.