User Name In Woo's Text Box Library?

ID:2335053
 
Jan 6 2018, 10:54 am
(See the best response by CrimsonVision.)
Code:
mob
    Fan_02
        icon='NPCs.dmi'
        icon_state = "fan2"
        FaceCon = "Tom"
        event="ShowText"
        event_ShowText="Fan: You must be [src.name]?"
        event_relay = TRUE
        event_window_color = "blue"         //Color to be used for the window. Must match one of the available icon states in HUD_windows.dmi.
        event_window_screenloc = "1:16,1:24"  //screen_loc to be used for the window


Problem description:
Trying to add it in for Woo's HUD/Text box system where like in classic RPG's the user's name appears in the box, but for some reason it's giving me a constant expression error in the "event_ShowText" line.

Also mentioned that src.name is undefined var, but it's not so that's strange too.
Jan 6 2018, 11:08 am
Best response
You can't use embedded expressions ("text text [some expression]") in definitions, you have to do it in a proc or verb, in this case you're probably best off to put it in New().

mob
    Fan_02
        icon='NPCs.dmi'
        icon_state = "fan2"
        FaceCon = "Tom"
        event="ShowText"
        event_relay = TRUE
        event_window_color = "blue"         //Color to be used for the window. Must match one of the available icon states in HUD_windows.dmi.
        event_window_screenloc = "1:16,1:24"  //screen_loc to be used for the window
        New()
            ..()
            event_ShowText = "Fan: You must be [src.name]?"

However, I'm not sure you meant to use src, first of all because you don't need src.X to access var X on src, but also because in this case src is the fan, so you'd end up with: "Fan: You must be Fan_02?"
Jan 6 2018, 11:14 am
In response to CrimsonVision
So obvious. I feel stupid.

Thanks!