display two variables as a fraction in a string?

[Dr. Funk]

I have a draw text command that goes like this:

draw_text(x+515,y+55,player_gun.magazine/player_base.ammo)

In my HUD object, it displays fine, but I can't figure out how to get it to actually display the two variables in the string the way I want. I want them to display like this:

50/100

but I get this:

0.50

basically, I want to negate the division and just display a slash between the two values. How would I do this?

 

[Jason]

Wouldn't the / need to be in quotation marks so it knows to print it as text and not part of an equation?

 

[Dr. Funk]

that's what I thought, and I tried that.
___________________________________________
FATAL ERROR in
action number 12
of Draw Event
for object HUD_parent:

COMPILATION ERROR in code action
Error in code at line 4:
draw_text(x+515,y+55,player_gun.magazine"/"player_base.ammo)
^
at position 43: Symbol , or ) expected.

 

[Jason]

Hmm, see, I'm not too great with GML, so I'm just guessing lol.

How about...

draw_text(x+515,y+55,(player_gun.magazine+"/"+player_base.ammo))

Again, just guessing lol, not sure how to do this.

 

[Ellie]

If + doesn't work try .

draw_text(x+515,y+55,player_gun.magazine+"/"+player_base.ammo)

draw_text(x+515,y+55,player_gun.magazine."/".player_base.ammo)

One of those I'd imagine.

 

[Dr. Funk]

tried all of these (and more) and still nothing, so I got fed up with it and rewrote the code and changed it to display the two numbers as a fraction like this:

50
100

and I actually like it better this way so consider this solved :thumb:

 

[Zeriab]

I know you found another solution, but just fyi you can solve the problem by getting the string representation of the numbers and use standard string concatenation:
draw_text(x + 515, y + 55, player_gun.magazine.to_s + "/" + player_base.ammo.to_s)

*hugs*