[XP]Displaying a Variable ID's result when... [RESOLVED]

[Rubicant]

Looked around for a bit to find a topic on this and haven't seen one yet, so I guess it's time to post a topic. =P

Basically, I have Variables 0001 - 0014 set to display some information about a character (numerical). I have edited Window_Status to show this information, but I cannot get it to work. So the question is, how do I get it to take the actor's ID, and then return the result of the variable with the same ID as the actor? Thanks in advance.

 

[BlueScope]

Well, what you could of course do is this:

self.contents.draw_text(rect, $game_variables[@actor.id])

This is assuming you have an @actor variable, which you should in the mentioned scene.

The real question here is why you don't write another attribute to Game_Actor. Create a variable named @yourpurpose below all the others in initialize definition, and then attribute it (attr_accessor :yourpurpose) above that.
Having that done, you can display it like this:

self.contents.draw_text(rect, @actor.yourpurpose)

And change it in the first place like this:

@actor.yourpurpose = 12345

Obviously, you can refer to the actor any way you want... for example by database ID:

$game_actors[id].yourpurpose = 12345

Or party position:

$game_party.actors[n] = 12345 # n is position-1, meaning the first character is 0, the second 1, ...

 

[Rubicant]

None of that seemed to work. Here are the two lines of code I added to Window_Status in def_refresh...

self.contents.draw_text(400, 342, 180, 32, "Custom Parameter")

self.contents.draw_text(400, 374, 180, 32, $game_variables[@actor.id])

So basically while viewing a status screen, it should be referencing the actor's ID and then returning the result of the variable with the same ID. But it returns a "cannot convert Fixnum into string" error.

 

[BlueScope]

My bad... that always happens to me XD

Here goes your second line:

self.contents.draw_text(400, 374, 180, 32, $game_variables[@actor.id].to_s)

The explanation for that is that draw_text can only return strings, while $game_variables (normally) only contains integers. the .to_s command will actually convert an integer into a string, i.e. 2 => "2"

 

[Rubicant]

THERE we go. Perfect. Thank you for the assistance, friend. :thumb:

 

[BlueScope]

I'd really really suggest you to do it the other way though. It might seem a bit more work, but actually, you'll end up with a much more versatile system, nevermind the scripting knowledge you'll get.

But yeah, other than that... resolved, I guess.