ctrlSetText error...Solved!!

[L!nk]

Ok, this puzzles me alot.
All I want to do is make a RscText update after I subracted it from something.

Here is my "description.ext"

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class Txt_Money : RscText
{
idc = 212;
text = "Money: $%1";
x = 0.35; y = 0.21; w = 0.3; h = 0.03;
};Here is my "dialogBuy.sqf"

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_dialog = createDialog "MHQBuild_Dialog";
money = 2000;
ctrlSetText [212,format ["%1",money]];
Here is my "buttonBuy.sqf"

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price = 50;
money = money - price;
This is the order it runs:
"dialogBuy.sqf"
"buttonBuy.sqf"
"dialogBuy.sqf"

Seems like a game bug or something, though Cleanrock fixed this is his updating of dialogs in his missions. I looked at it but can't find his technique.

PLEASE HELP,
L!nk

[Mandoble]

Help with what? what's the error you get and where?

[Wolfrug]

Well umm. First of all, the RscText will only display the number (which will always be 2000), not the "Money : $" part. You need to put that into the equation as well for the whole deal : à la

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ctrlSetText [212,"Money: $ " + (format ["%1",money])];
And secondly, the reason it will always display as 2000 lies in the fact that in "dialogbuy.sqs" you define money = 2000. It doesn't matter that you subtract anything from it, since in the next iteration of "dialogbuy.sqs" (which just updates the rsctext) you define money = 2000 again.

I suggest defining money in the init.sqf or similar initialization script to avoid this kind of weirdness.

Wolfrug out.

[L!nk]

Sry, when the dialog is created for the second time, this text did not change. Its still the same (2000).

The "money = 2000;" is set beforehand. Sorry!

I know it wont display "Money: $2000", but thats not my problem. It is supose to update and it doesn't.

[L!nk]

OK, here is my original code copied directly from my mission:

DialogBuild.sqf:

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//------------------------------------------------------------
//Link_CTI
//------------------------------------------------------------
_dialog = createDialog "MHQBuild_Dialog";

ctrlSetText [212,format [ctrlText 212,(call compile format["ArrMone_Si%1_%2", LinkCTI_PlayerSide,LinkCTI_PlayerGroup])]]; // This text WON'T UPDATE after it is subracted in "ButtonBuild.sqf"
ButtonBuild.sqf:

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//------------------------------------------------------------
//Link_CTI
//------------------------------------------------------------

_selected = _this select 0; // when a list entry is double clicked, this is the clicked entry index.

_price = (((call compile format["ArrType_Si%1_Buil", LinkCTI_PlayerSide]) select _selected) select 5);
_money = (call compile format["ArrMone_Si%1_%2", LinkCTI_PlayerSide,LinkCTI_PlayerGroup]);

if (_money >= _price) then
{
// update array
if (LinkCTI_PlayerSide == 0) then {ArrMone_Si0 set [LinkCTI_PlayerGroup,(_money - _price)]};
if (LinkCTI_PlayerSide == 1) then {ArrMone_Si1 set [LinkCTI_PlayerGroup,(_money - _price)]};
LinkCTI_ArrMone = [ArrMone_Si0,ArrMone_Si1];
closeDialog 0;
};
// Everything works is this file. The array entry is updated and subracted and everything!

In the situation of my testing:
LinkCTI_PlayerSide = 1;
LinkCTI_PlayerGroup = 1;

LinkCTI_ArrMone is a array with the amount of money for the group.
LinkCTI_ArrType is a array that only has to do with my buildings (cost of building)

[Mandoble]

Try this:

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_dialog = createDialog "MHQBuild_Dialog";
Sleep 0.5;
money = 2000;
ctrlSetText [212,format ["%1",money]];


[L!nk]

Already tried sleep.

Maybe this??
http://www.ofpec.com/forum/index.php?topic=30863.msg211751#msg211751

[L!nk]

Works 100% now
LOL, no idea why...

L!nk

[Mandoble]

Just consider each time you modify description.ext file, you need to reload the mission again in the editor to make the changes effective. Might be that was all the problem.

[h-]

L!nk, no consecutive posting please.
If you have something to add after a short period of time modify your post instead of replying to yourself..

[L!nk]

NOTED!!!