Talk:setVehicleVarName
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Anyone know what this command is supposed to achieve? If you put this in a vehicles init field:
This SetVehicleVarName "Test" ; Hint Format ["%1",Test]
The format command returns the scalar bool error. If you want to refer to the vehicle via the variable pointer Test in ver 1.05, you have to also call this:
This SetVehicleVarName "test"; This Call Compile Format ["%1=_This","Test"];
Cheers
- Maybe I'm missing something here, but wouldn't the second line be the same as Test=This?
- I don't quite understand why the _this, and why it needs to be compiled in the first place.
- When I tried the "plain" version it worked just fine: --Kronzky 03:45, 4 May 2007 (CEST)
this setVehicleVarName "test";
test=this;
- Yeah, the second part is a bad example. For the purposes of understanding how the command is supposed to be used, your simplified version is a much clearer demonstration of the problem.
- My original example relates to how I wanted to use the command at the time. The variable names I want to use are all dynamic. Because they are created during the mission, I would not know what they were called. Only I removed all that from the code when I pasted the example here.
- I can't help thinking this is a bug with the setVehicleVarName command? As I can't think of any other use for it. UNN 08:29, 4 May 2007 (CEST)
_name = "foobar";
_l = "logic" createvehicle getpos player;
_l setvehiclevarname _name;
player sidechat str _l; // output is "foobar"
This is only use I see. --Doolittle 08:45, 9 August 2007 (CEST)
