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Editors Depot - Mission Editing and Scripting => OFP - Editing/Scripting General => Topic started by: cid228 on 28 May 2004, 11:18:02

Title: Variablename becoming "Variablename" marker ?!
Post by: cid228 on 28 May 2004, 11:18:02

Hey guys and girls, have had a troublesome 24 hours and just cant get my head around one thing.
Lets say I have a plane named Plane and a marker named "Plane", I just want to get access to Plane object, and "Plane" marker in script but with just one variable in the executor.

[plane] exec "../plane.sqs"

I tried :

_planemarker = format ["%1",_this select 0]

just to get the name into quotes, but then it returns -- WEST Alpha Black:1 --
,wich is not what im looking for.

[plane,"plane"] exec "../plane.sqs"   is not an option !

If anyone  have a clue what im talking about and have some kind of solution to it, please do type it down and reply !!!

Title: Re:Variablename becoming "Variablename" marker ?!
Post by: Chris Death on 28 May 2004, 15:58:58

You need to do it the other way around.

Pass the string "plane" to the script and convert it from
string to object name.

Pane is only a reference to the unit itself, therefor it returns west alpha black 1 when trying to convert it to stringname.

~S~ CD

Title: Re:Variablename becoming "Variablename" marker ?!
Post by: cid228 on 30 May 2004, 09:58:56

Thanks Death !

IÂ'll try it that way, if i figure out how to get it out of the string that is ! =)