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bknight2602
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Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2023 5:10 am Post subject: Display values in text boxes

I'm modifying an old game with old code.
Manually I have added 8 text boxes to a panel. Then I added a timer and a function in the code.

Code:

td = createTimer(nil)
td.Interval = 500
td.onTimer = function(DisplayEnemy)
td.Enabled = true
--print("entered td timer")
end--function(Display)

Note the when the print command is not commented, prints so I know the timer works.

Further down in the code I have

Code:

function DisplayEnemy(sender)
...find values for the text boxes
...Finding the values works as I can enter the code finding the values and printing them in the debug window. However the print command at the end of code never prints so the function is not entered.
control_setCaption(CheatPanel_CEEdit3,enemy1curhp)
control_setCaption(CheatPanel_CEEdit4,enemy2curhp)
control_setCaption(CheatPanel_CEEdit5,enemy3curhp)
control_setCaption(CheatPanel_CEEdit6,enemy4curhp)
control_setCaption(CheatPanel_CEEdit7,enemy5curhp)
control_setCaption(CheatPanel_CEEdit8,enemy6curhp)
control_setCaption(CheatPanel_CEEdit9,enemy7curhp)
control_setCaption(CheatPanel_CEEdit10,enemy8curhp)
print("display edits running")
end--function DisplayEnemy(sender)

The timer works but the function DisplayEnemy doesn't work. How may I change the existing code to make the DisplayEnemy function work?

LeFiXER
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Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2023 6:25 am Post subject: Re: Display values in text boxes

bknight2602 wrote:

I'm modifying an old game with old code.
Manually I have added 8 text boxes to a panel. Then I added a timer and a function in the code.

Code:

td = createTimer(nil)
td.Interval = 500
td.onTimer = function(DisplayEnemy)
td.Enabled = true
--print("entered td timer")
end--function(Display)

Note the when the print command is not commented, prints so I know the timer works.

Further down in the code I have

Code:

The timer works but the function DisplayEnemy doesn't work. How may I change the existing code to make the DisplayEnemy function work?

Code:

function DisplayEnemy() -- No need for sender here, since you're not passing any information back to the function that called this one.
control_setCaption(CheatPanel_CEEdit3, enemy1curhp)
control_setCaption(CheatPanel_CEEdit4, enemy2curhp)
control_setCaption(CheatPanel_CEEdit5, enemy3curhp)
control_setCaption(CheatPanel_CEEdit6, enemy4curhp)
control_setCaption(CheatPanel_CEEdit7, enemy5curhp)
control_setCaption(CheatPanel_CEEdit8, enemy6curhp)
control_setCaption(CheatPanel_CEEdit9, enemy7curhp)
control_setCaption(CheatPanel_CEEdit10, enemy8curhp)
print("display edits running")
end

td = createTimer() -- Also, no need to set the parent to nil
td.Interval = 500
td.onTimer = DisplayEnemy -- function must be declared before it is used. Lua is interpreted in a linear fashion i.e.: line-by-line from top-to-bottom
-- No need to set td.Enabled = true, it's true by default.

bknight2602
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Posts: 586

Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2023 7:33 am Post subject:

Man this is one aspect I've told before, but thanks for the refresher. After moving the timer, saving and reopening the table everything works well.

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