Dealing with variable text... Is there an easy way?

To my knowledge none of what you are asking is available as only numbers can be stored i. Variables. Even booleans take the form of 0/1

I do not believe that you can have a variable in a text message at this time. The work around is to write a different version of the message for every possible value that it could include.

Thanks Mike and lucas,

I don't think that 2.3 quintillion lines of code will cut it though. But I realized that my math was bad on the computation of combinations and it is only about 1200+ combinations, but still, 1200+ event combinations just for a text statement is a bit much. Hopefully 2.0's mission scripting will allow for variable text.

Rusty

excel is fantastic for automating code generation

lucas,

Thanks for the tip. I was considering using it for chunks of my code. I am just wonder, how much is too much for Artemis to handle as far as an XML mission file is concerned? I am currently at nearly 100KB in size and I have not even started on the communications modules. Does anyone have an upper limit they have reached, or a point at which performance begins to suffer? Thanks.

By my understanding performance only depends on the number of running timers/loops/create events.

To expand on that statement, all code is static until called upon. So if you have a single random variable event that rolls for a comms message, the difference between 5 and 500 outcomes is insignificant in regards to performance.

Like with my jump drive, inserting a jump drive with 360 possible directions had the same impact as inserting one with 8. Because you're only accessing one of the blocks. If you accessed all 360 at the same time, you'd experience a slowdown.

but since your comms messages will have a unique identifier, only one will be requested at any given time if your conditions are set right.

feel free to contact me directly @icloud.com if you need further explanation as the forums keep dropping out on me.