help with writing text in a input marco

[Bengalelf]

I have veggies wonderful inputinit macro for adding tokens to the initiative tracker.

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[H: status = input(
  "init     | " + lastInit + "       | Initiative  | TEXT | WIDTH=5",
  "initDice | +0d6, +1d6, +2d6, +3d6, +4d6, +5d6 | Init. Dice | LIST | SELECT=" + lastInitDice,
  "wounds  | Do not include, Include P & S, Include P & S & M | Use wounds | LIST | SELECT=" + lastWounds
)]
[H: abort(status)]

During playtesting I noticed I am having trouble remembering npcs initiatives. So I thought, to help me out, it would be helpful for the macro to show me the selected tokens initiative in the input field. Now I have tried putting

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[r:initiative

in just behind the

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[H: status = input(

and It does not work. Also I tired putting it in front of the Status input. That way the macro works, but it does not show me the selected tokens initiative. How do I have the property 'initiative' display on the input field?

[wolph42]

try
[r:init]

[CoveredInFish]

If I got this right you want to show the value in that dialog?

Then you need to add a field like this to the input()-call.

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 "dummy     | " + getProperty("Initiative") + "       | Ini Value |TEXT|WIDTH=5",

I dont know if the right token context is established as I dont know veggies framework (at least not that well). Maybe you need to get a token ID from somewhere... (maybe Wiki: getSelected())

[Bengalelf]

That is working so far. Yeah Fishy, you are my hero. I do have a couple of questions. Here is what the box looks like.

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Any way to have it just print out iniValue and then the value Initiative without putting initiative in a box?

Second question why did you start the line of code with dummy?

[Bone White]

Because an input line with the type "LABEL" does not output a value to a variable, therefore a "dummy" variable is used.

This is actually the line you want to use to just show a value without having an input box/field.

[CoveredInFish]

Yeah what he said. See Wiki: input() for the label options and an example.

[Irrlicht]

Any way to have it just print out iniValue and then the value Initiative without putting initiative in a box?

Maybe this is what you want?

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  "init     | " + lastInit + "       | Initiative " + getProperty("Initiative") + "  | TEXT | WIDTH=5",

Basically, add that thing not to the input field, but to the displayed text...