How to access Structures Children With a Name (SOLVED)

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im trying to add to the name of a variable how do I get this to work

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I cannot figure out why its not working I SWEAR IT WORKED A FEW MONTHS AGO

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You would need to show a code example. Generally, variable names are not and never were something that exists as a value, only the value they refer to can be used directly.

What you can do, if you have two variables, say DialogueId1 and DialogueId2 which are set to the values 1 and 2 respectively, is using the dynamic accessor ([]), which allows to get a child variable using the result of an expression as child name: DIALOGUENameLeft[DialogueId1 + DialogueId2]

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Okay so I found out how to fix it???

STRUCTURE *global

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DIALOGUETEXTADDER *Global
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at beginning of scene my json files which contain all dialogue are loaded in
they auto add to children which is awesome :smiley:

If i chose arrays this would’ve been way simpler but whatever I’m already here lol

by doing

DIALOGUE2[ToString(DIALOGUETEXTADDER)]
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I got it to load in game :smiley:

I will have to change a little bit rn but it should be working

THANK YOU :smiley:
I have no idea why I had to put ToString but whatever lol it works

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Structures use child names as a string that contains letters, numbers or a few special characters. The first character of the child name shouldn’t/can’t be a number. The first character is almost always a letter except in a few rare exceptions.

Arrays use indexes which are sequentially numbered started at index zero.

Structure
Fruit.Apple
Fruit[“Apple”]

If the variable LastLevel was a string
Game[“Level” + LastLevel]

If the variable LastLevel was a number
Game[“Level” + ToString(LastLevel)]

The child name in the brackets can be anything that returns a string or can be converted to one.

Array
Fruit[0]

The same applies to arrays except the index must be a number or anything that returns a number.

There are times when you may need to convert a number ToString() or a number stored as a string ToNumber()

If the required type is wrong or doesn’t exist then GDevelop will try to prevent a crash by returning zero or the default value. In many cases, trying to read certain variables will cause GDevelop to create that variable or index.

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Dude your litteraly the only reason I even kept with gdevelop for so long

You helped me with something so simple in hindsight :smiley:

Dude im pretty sure u made a demo or smtn for me to?

also thanks for your explanation :smiley:

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