What I'm trying to do is create an entity with some text above it and then create another with different text and so on and so forth. Everything works accordingly except all the entities show the same text.

For example, I create ent1 and the text says 'Testing1', then I create ent2 and the text says 'Testing2'...however the text above ent1 also says 'Testing2' and obviously I need it to stay as it was.

Any ideas? Here is the quick and dirty example code:
Code:

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var EntLoc[3]=-1536,-896,50; //the firstloc of the entity
var StrIndex = 1;

entity* TestEnt;

string Warlock = <warlock.mdl>;

string TestString1 (Testing1);
string TestString2 (Testing2);
string TestString3 (Testing3);
string TestString4 (Testing4);
string TestString5 (Testing5);
string TestString6 (Testing6);
string TestString7 (Testing7);
string TestString8 (Testing8);

TEXT TestStr
{
	strings = 8;
	string = TestString1,TestString2,TestString3,TestString4,TestString5,TestString6,TestString7,TestString8;
}


function CreateEntTest();
function DrawText();

function DrawText()
{
	var TextPos; //where the text should appear
	TestEnt = my;
	while(1)
	{
		vec_set(TextPos,vector(my.x,my.y,my.z+55)); //sets the 'text' above the model.Play with the + values
		vec_set(temp,TextPos);
		vec_to_screen(temp,camera);
		if (c_trace(TextPos,camera.x,IGNORE_ME|IGNORE_PASSABLE)==0&&temp!=0)
		{
			draw_text(TestStr.string[StrIndex],temp.x,temp.y,vector(255,50,50));
	   }
		wait(1);
	}
}

function CreateEntTest()
{
	ent_create(Warlock,EntLoc,DrawText); 
	EntLoc.x+=256;
	StrIndex +=1;
}

on_a=CreateEntTest();  

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maby this work i didnt test it

Code:

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function DrawText()
{
	var TextPos; //where the text should appear
        var stri;
        stri = strindex;
	TestEnt = my;
	while(1)
	{
		vec_set(TextPos,vector(my.x,my.y,my.z+55)); //sets the 'text' above the model.Play with the + values
		vec_set(temp,TextPos);
		vec_to_screen(temp,camera);
		if (c_trace(TextPos,camera.x,IGNORE_ME|IGNORE_PASSABLE)==0&&temp!=0)
		{
        stri.x = strindex;
	strindex = stri;
draw_text(TestStr.string[StrIndex],temp.x,temp.y,vector(255,50,50));
strindex = stri.x;
	   }
		wait(1);
	}
}

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Both are wrong....
Do it like that and it works:
Code:

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function DrawText()
{
	var TextPos; //where the text should appear
        var stri;
        stri = strindex;
	TestEnt = my;
	while(1)
	{
		vec_set(TextPos,vector(my.x,my.y,my.z+55)); 
		vec_set(temp,TextPos);
		vec_to_screen(temp,camera);
		if (c_trace(TextPos,camera.x,IGNORE_ME|IGNORE_PASSABLE)==0&&temp!=0)
		{
draw_text(TestStr.string[stri],temp.x,temp.y,vector(255,50,50));
	   }
		wait(1);
	}
}

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yah your right but i dont use storage much
but what was wrong the much scripting?

@ flits: Thanks for the attempt!

@ DerOmega: I <3 you! it works!

Thanks for the help

[edit] actually, would anyone mind telling me WHY that works and the way I did doesn't? I seem to make that kind of mistake often but not clear on how it works...

I is pretty easy your drawtext function runs all the time and it always uses strindex but strindex changes and so the drawtext function will use another value, which means all entitys will use the last string.
@ flits:
your code was nearly right you just did the mistake to change strindex into stri and the other way. You just have to set stri once

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Ah, I see.

I rated you both Thanks again.

thank you both

i see i was busy white my code that i was scrpiting and i did get a litle bit confused by it

Vau! Im quite often lost days with similiar problem to this!
Thanks to all about this good post.