keeping track of a user's name

[xeno]

Okay, well My friend and I are making a new gametype called Bounty Hunter, which is where when you spawn everyone is assigned a target which they have to kill. When they kill the target they get one point, and if they kill the person hunting them they get another point. If they kill everyone else they get -1 points.

I need to be able to track the users kills and name. Originally Nightmare made the code and had some errors in it, well we managed to get those errors to work. But now we just need to be able to track the players name correctly, so the person knows who their target is.

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	precacheString(&"BH_HUD2_TARGET");

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	self.bh_hud2_target = newClientHudElem(self);
	self.bh_hud2_target.archived = false;
	self.bh_hud2_target.x = 519.5;
	self.bh_hud2_target.y = 402;
	self.bh_hud2_target.alignX = "left";
	self.bh_hud2_target.alignY = "top";
	self.bh_hud2_target.sort = 1;
	self.bh_hud2_target.fontScale = .8;
	self.bh_hud2_target.label = &"BH_HUD2_TARGET";
	self.bh_hud2_target setValue(self.BHTarget.name);
	iprintln("bhtarget:" + self.BHTarget.name);

So what this code does is make a hud element that says 'BH_HD2_TARGET' instead of the value contained in self.BHTarget.name. I've tested the value in self.BHTarget.name with iprintln and it contains the correct value (it's not null).

[Drofder2004]

Have you tried "setText"?

[xeno]

Isn't settext for static (unchanging) data though, and we want it to change.

[waywaaaard]

why can't you if it changes just recall setText()?

[xeno]

Yeah, I just tried that. It doesn't work, it displays the same problem.

[Drofder2004]

what is "self.bhtarget.name"?

How is it being registered?
Where is it being registered?

what is 'self'?

[waywaaaard]

self should be the player

[Drofder2004]

self should be the player

of course it should be, but the question still stands

[xeno]

the variable is declared, as iprintln shows it properly