help with checking states/conditions

[wlzza]

Ok, what I want to achieve is that when an actor is inflicted with a state such as poison, an icon will appear in the battlestatus window which I have created. Now the problem is that the script belows work in rmxp but not in rmvx. I'm guessing the problem lies in the "text = $data_states[ i].name" part of the script. Any ideas to solve this or is there a work around? Thanks.

    gauge = Cache.picture("gauge.png")
    state = []
    for i in actor.states
      text = $data_states[i].name
      case text
      when ""
        break
        return
      when "Poison"
        state[1] = true
      end
    end
    if state[1]
      self.contents.blt(x, y, gauge, Rect.new(0, 40, 16, 16),160)
    end

I get this error in VX: cannot convert RPG::State into Integer