writing to screen and a variable

[charunks]

I have a small problem:

; just a small script
a=5
hint "a"
exit

ingame this writes a to the screen for a short period.
How do you write the value of a to the screen and how do you keep this value on screen ( it disappears after a short time)?

thnx

[macguba]

Use the format command.   See the online version of the command ref for an example.

Hints disappear after a while.    If you want it to stay repeat the hint.

[Artak]

Aye as macguba there said it, and pretty much everything, can be found in the command reference.

#loop
?conditiontoexit: exit
a=5
hint format ["%1",a]
~10
goto "loop"