Dialog.Message error

[midlander]

I have been using AMS4 for a little while now and love it but I am considering upgrading to take advantage of the wonderful new abilities of AMS5. So I just downloaded the trial version of AMS5 Pro.

Ran into a snag right off the bat. I endered this code into the OnClick action for a graphic.

result = Image.GetPos("Image1");--get top/left
Dialog.Message("Notice", result);--tell me the top/left

but I get On Click, Argument 2 must be of type string.

I thought type conversion were automatic with AMS?
I cant find in the documentation where it says that the GetPos returns a unique type or requires special conversions.

What am I doing wrong?????

Thanks in advance

[Worm]

GetPos returns a table:

if (result ~= nil) then
Dialog.Message("Notice", "X = " .. result.X .." \r\n\Y = " .. result.Y);--tell me the top/left
end

[midlander]

Wow what a swift reply. Thanks

Here is the code now:

result = Image.GetPos("Image1");--get top/left
if (result ~= nil)then
Dialog.Message("Notice", result);--tell me the top/left
else
Dialog.Message("Notice", "nil");--tell me the top/left
end

Exact same error for line 3.

Im confused :ok

[Worm]

Yea, you caught me inbetween edits. I realized after I posted that, what was wrong. Look at the original (edited) reply.

Sometimes speedy answers need editing, especially when they are read just as quickly :)

[Desmond]

Hello Midlander,

Image.GetPos returns a type table (not a string). In fact, the table contains two numbers, referenced by .X and .Y. So to output the position of the image, you will have to effectively reference two numbers.

Do this:
Dialog.Message("X Position", result.X);
Dialog.Message("Y.Position", result.Y);


Keep in mind that Image.GetPos is really returning two values in the form of a table, and u'll be set!

Desmond.

[midlander]

Works perfectly!

Now, why the .. before and after???
I can sort of understand the result.X (guess getting the value for X) but why was the raw result not displayed??

Thanks again

[Worm]

The .. concatate (combines) strings in lua

"My" .. " Name " .. "is" .. " Brad"

would be the same as

"My Name is Brad"

[midlander]

So many new features so little time. Thanks all.

Now I will go back to playing with AMS5.

:)