How can I get the skills of an entity to show up in a panel. For example ...

#define Name skill50 ***This creates a problem ***
#define Health skill51

ENTITY* Person = NULL;

function main()
{
you = ent_create("person.mdl",target.x,Human_Act);
}

action Human_Act()
{
***** this next line causes an error "can't convert array to fixed" why is this. *******

my.name = "Paul";
my.heath = 100;

while(1)
{
*** some actions ***

}

}

PANEL* info =
{
pos_x = 0; pos_y = 100;
bmap = ppl_info;

digits = 5,15,"Name: %s",*,1,mouse_ent.name;
digits = 5,25,"Health: %s",*,1,mouse_ent.health;
}

this isn't the actual code I am playing around with I just typed it in quickly so you get the idea. As you can see I'm trying to get a panel to display information about a entity that has been "clicked" mouse_ent from what I understand is supposed to hold all information on an entity that has been clicked, then why is the panel info always 0 or null in the case of the name ... I can't even give name a value because of the error. This seems that it should be this hard to figure out, can someone point me in the right direction.

im pretty sure defines cannot use text only numbers because they are like a var you would need to use strings i think

Yea that all seems to work fine, but I thought ENTITY was global??? so why would I have to create TWO more variables ... this doesn't make sense. Why couldn't I just use ...

PANEL* info =
{
pos_x = 0; pos_y = 100;
bmap = ppl_info;

digits = 5,15,"Name: %s",*,1,mouse_ent.name;
digits = 5,25,"Health: %s",*,1,mouse_ent.health;
}


instead of your panel code above flits?? And not only am I creating TWO more variables I'm also creating another infinite loop, why would I want to do that ... this seems like a waist of resources. Shouldn't these calculations be able to take place in an action and "mouse_ent" updated every step of the way?? seems odd to me ... can anyone help???

hmmm anybody else have any ideas??

if you're not using 'player' anywhere you could use that?

player = mouse_ent; etc... you get how it work :P

and then what ... do somthing like this ...

PANEL* info =
{
pos_x = 0; pos_y = 100;
bmap = ppl_info;

digits = 5,15,"Name: %s",*,1,player .name;
digits = 5,25,"Health: %s",*,1,player .health;
}

aye, but lose the spaces in player .name -> player.name

The problem you are probably going to get is that unless "player" is defined in WED, your going to get
compile errors from the panel on the "player.???" lines.
Because if player is undefined ay compile time, the panel cant find "player.name" because "player==NULL".

UNLESS you cheat. It can get messy but if you are careful you can get away with it.

At the top of your code somewhere define "player" like this
This creates a dummy global entity for your panel to compile with.
The rest of your coding can stay the same.