How to show string-var in textbox?

[marionline]

I'm trying to get text as $string into a textbox.
I'm somewhat clueless here ... maybe it's just a something like spelling mistake, that I don't see?

I wrote a script show_text:

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script, show_text, itemid, begin
    $200="You created %s!" 
    string sprintf(200, 200, get item name(itemid))
    show textbox (230)
    wait for textbox
end    

That's the textbox what should show the string variable.

This is the script to call the show_text script:

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script, craft_amulett_of_fire, begin
  delete item(item:Stone)
  delete item(item:Thread)
  delete item(57)
  get item(32) #create item no 36
  
  show textbox (232)
  wait for textbox
  show_text(57)
  
end

And that's what is shows in the editor
when the script is run. No variable is shown.


Only the text box and textboxtext is displayed if script is started by NPC.

The sting is never displayed in textbox, not even the first part of it.

[Bob the Hamster]

"string sprint" doesn't allow you to use the same string ID for both the destination string I'd and the format string ID

I usually write it like:

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string sprintf(0, $1="Formatted value %d", Val)

[marionline]

Thanks for your answer.
Is it's string sprintf(id-of-old-string ,id-of-new-string, Val), right?

Unfortuntely, even the change string part commented out, the textbox does not display the string variable.

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script, show_text, itemid, begin
    $200="You created SOMETHING COOL." 
    #string sprintf(201, $200="Formatted value %d", get item name(itemid))
    show textbox (230)
    wait for textbox
end    

[Bob the Hamster]

it is:

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string sprintf(id of string to create, id of string containing format, value)

But I just spotted the other two problems in the script.

"get item name" requires a string id.

and %d embeds an integer, but you need it to embed a string with %s

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string sprintf(0, $1="Item name: %s", get item name(2, itemid))

So there are actually 3 string ids being used here. In my example above, the finished ready-to-display string ends up in string id 0

[marionline]

Thanks a lot!
I finally got the textbox that is displaying the item name.

[TMC]

"string sprint" doesn't allow you to use the same string ID for both the destination string I'd and the format string ID

Not true, they can be the same.

The main reason that your script didn't show anything at all is that 200 isn't a valid string ID. Strings have IDs from 0 to 99.

Apparently you didn't get an error message about that mistake because you weren't using "Test Game". If you aren't using the Test Game feature, then I strongly recommend you manually turn on error reporting by going to Edit General Game Data -> Plotscript Error Display and setting "Script Error Display Mode" to "debug".
You should turn error reporting back off before releasing your game.