Info Displayed in Hint Box

[Arctic]

I am interested in working out a sniper spotter script for a mission but I can't figure out how to get like the distance of a chosen object as well as the type to be displayed in the hint box. I know its something like %d and %n but I dont understand this.

[MI_Fred]

Your looking for the 'format' command, or tool, whatever. So it's the magic word you put in after Hint for example like this in your case:
_targetdist = player distance Guba

Hint format ["Guba is %1 meters away",_targetdist]

and now a hintbox with the line:
Guba is 800 meters away
is displayed if that's the distance.

Format can be used in lots of other places, the usage just varies so much that it's a tuff one. But that works for sure.