Hi,

I have only just started out working with ASL and QDK so please bear with me if this is a silly question; I've been through the docs and tried several different things but nothing seems to work.

I have defined a Weapon type and then created a specific object IronDagger from it with a property Damage defined to be 3.

I now wish to pass this object to a function WeaponDamage which will simply retrieve the value of that property from the object passed as parameter(1) and return that value to the calling procedure.

I may want to use the returned numeric value for a message or for further calculation.

1. What is the syntax for getting that property from the object once it has been passed into my WeaponDamage function ?

2. Is it returned as a numeric value or string, and does it matter much in ASL ?

3. If it is returned as a number, can I still use it in a msg<> statement without conversion ?

Any advice appreciated,

Thanks

RW

Im not here to offer you advice, but to say welcome.

So welcome!

Instead of using a function to return a property, it's easier just to reference the property directly.

For example, to return the Damage property of the object IronDagger, use #IronDagger:Damage#

To generalise this to return the Damage property for the object referenced by the string variable "myobject", use #(myobject):Damage#

The documentation page for this is here: http://www.axeuk.com/quest/developer/do ... erties.htm

To answer questions 2 and 3, ASL doesn't worry about data types, so you can assign a string value to a numeric variable without having to do any explicit conversion.

Thanks Alex, I've tried that and it does what I wanted.

I always seem to make coding things harder than need be .

I may be back with more questions though. I am currently spending the 2 hours a day I have free messing around with Quest cos I love it !

Thanatos : thanks for welcome.

Cheers

RW

I also bid you welcome. Be careful using capital letters in names, make sure you always capitalise them the same, 'Damage' and 'damage' are seen as different things by quest.