[SCRIPT] Carrying variables and printing them [ALTERNATIVELY SOLVED]

[Spelos]

Intro:
Hello, I'm currently working on a project that is working heavily with variables. It's a great thing and it taught me a lot so far, however I ran into a problem that is beyond my knowledge.

Problem in details:
I have a variable:

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void OnStart()
{
    SetGlobalVarInt("VarNumber", 0);
} 


It's Global since I think we need to carry it into extra_english.lang and it's Int since other functions later on are mathematically working with this variable.

Here's the problem... I want to display the variable number as a message, hopefully with some other text. My try was doing the following:

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void ShowcaseFunction()
{
    SetMessage("Messages", "NumberStatus" + GetLocalVarInt("VarNumber"), 0);
} 


But that doesn't work since what it essentially does is looking for "NumberStatus0" and that doesn't exist.
I need a way of displaying the variable in the message itself.

TL;DR problem:
You have a variable that is a number. How can you display the number on player's screen?

Did you try looking for a solution somewhere else?
Yes, I'm usually not asking for help with scripts, but this got me. I'm looking for 2 days now and Google nor FrictionalGamesWiki didn't provide me with proper answer.
Thanks in advance for any response.

[Neelke]

Isn't it better using AddDebugMessage?

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AddDebugMessage(string& asString, bool abCheckForDuplicates);

If I'm not understanding you wrong.

[Spelos]

Isn't it better using AddDebugMessage?

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AddDebugMessage(string& asString, bool abCheckForDuplicates);

If I'm not understanding you wrong.

That would work for a developer. But unless the player has a DebugMode on it's not going to show.
I meant this like a reminder to a player about the variable.
You can think of it like: "There are 3 leavers remaining." message after you pull one of the leavers down. Now the "3" would be the variable.

[Neelke]

Well, AddDebugMessage and SetMessage are not the same thing. SetMessage is something that must use the extra_english.lang. So my suggestion then is to make a category for your variables.

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<CATEGORY Name="Variable">
<Entry Name="NumberStatus1">1</Entry>
</CATEGORY>

[Spelos]

Well I would do that, but as I mentioned, the project is working with the variable on a much larger scale. I mean... we're talking numbers from 1 through 600. I cannot possibly make a message for each number.

[Mudbill]

Unfortunately, you cannot modify lang text dynamically. It looks like you're gonna have to do it the hard way unless you invent another way of displaying your numbers. You could perhaps use custom entities, if your mod allows such and it makes sense.

[Romulator]

Unfortunately, you cannot modify lang text dynamically. It looks like you're gonna have to do it the hard way unless you invent another way of displaying your numbers. You could perhaps use custom entities, if your mod allows such and it makes sense.

The "hard way" as Mudbill mentions, is adding these to your .lang.

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<CATEGORY Name="Messages">
<Entry Name="NumberStatus0">0</Entry>
<Entry Name="NumberStatus1">1</Entry>
<Entry Name="NumberStatus2">2</Entry>
<Entry Name="NumberStatus3">3</Entry>
</CATEGORY>

And so on.

[Spelos]

I settled down for a different solution.
I made categories like this:

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<CATEGORY Name="Messages">
    <Entry Name="NumberStatusHIG">The variable number is 500 or higher.</Entry>
    <Entry Name="NumberStatusMED">The variable number is between 200 and 500.</Entry>
    <Entry Name="NumberStatusLOW">The variable number is lower than 200.</Entry>
</CATEGORY>

Thus making it easier to manage the number. Fortunately for my project, precision is not needed.

Thanks everyone.