FATAL ERROR

[magintz]

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Illegal exception
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An exception 0xC0000005 occured in ACWIN.EXE at EIP = 0x0041421D ; program pointer is +6, ACI version 2.61.747, gtags (5,1)

AGS cannot continue, this exception was fatal. Please note down the numbers above, remember what you were doing at the time and notify CJ on the Tech forum.

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I'm tryig to create a chat window, I have got a string for the name of the person speaking called name, the text they have typed called input and two other variables called begin and end which will surround the name variable with <> so it should appear like this:

<Magintz>  Yo, Dudes

Here is the relavant code:

   {GetTextBoxText(PARSER,1,input); //This gathers the text from the text-box in GUI 0, and from Object1 and to store it in the predefined string "input"
StrCopy (end, ">  ");
StrCopy (begin, "<");
ListBoxAdd(4,0,begin && name && end && input);

I think the problem is with the && and how it can't add more than one variable, or it could be with the strcopy as I have never used that command before.

[Ashen]

Couldn't you simplify it a bit by using StrFormat? E.g.:

Code: ags

GetTextBoxText(PARSER,1,input);
StrFormat (end, "<%s> %s", name, input); // since the string 'end' is already declared
ListBoxAdd(4,0,end);

Is this any use, or have I missed the point?

[Gilbert]

Right, && is for logical comparisons (as in an if-clause), it's not used to join strings. For string operations most of the time you MUST use the Str...() functions (except in cases like Display() etc. where you can format directly within it).

[magintz]

Couldn't you simplify it a bit by using StrFormat? E.g.:

Code: ags

GetTextBoxText(PARSER,1,input);
StrFormat (end, "<%s> %s", name, input); // since the string 'end' is already declared
ListBoxAdd(4,0,end);

Is this any use, or have I missed the point?

Thanks dude, worked a treat