execsetgamevar broken?

[bwheatley]

Vic,

is there a bug with execsetgamevar?

I tried tempstring, realstring, tempvar, and real number and all errored when i tried to run the event.

[Veni]

Just off-the-cuff: does Gameslot_Testing2(#4) require a numerical value, e.g. '0'? Is line two necessary if you reset it on line 4?

(edit: just realized you asked Vic; don't mean to be rude & intercede)

[Jeffrey H.]

Also, single quotes around test is that valid ?

[bwheatley]

I tested with strings or numeric. And the Quotes are generated by the function.

[Vic]

Yes it is because you are doing something a bit weird here.

ExecSetGameVar( game var slot #, new value)

So specify a value between 0-499 for game var slot #.

You are actually specifying as the slot # the value stored in gamevar slot #4 (which is probably -1 and causing the error)

If you want to directly set a gamevar directly just use a

SETVAR: GameVarSlot_Testing(#4) = 'test'

best regards,
Vic

[bwheatley]

ahh cool thanks Vic. Makes sense when you describe it that way.