How to pass a int variable between two different scripts

[Tonycubed2]

First, the variable is not part of a quest script, and thus the CK wiki does not work for it. So maybe it has to be a quest script for a variable to be passed between two scripts?

I doubt it though. In any case, the following script succesfully summons a ghoul when a potion is picked up the floor. Uses a local counter to only summon the ghoul one time even if picked up again. Works fine. But I need to let a second script elsewhere know that the potion was picked up. That is where I used the "Int Property TookPotion Auto" line.

My script elsewhere needs to query TookPotion and if it is "5" perform stuff. But I cannot get it to do it. I tried using GetLinkedRef() but it confuses me and complained about mismatched types. I tried to "cast" the type using "PotionTaken = GetLinkedRef() as SpawnGhostPotion" and compiled but that does not allow me to query the Int "TookPotion". Help! I spent hours and hours on this.

Scriptname SpawnGhostPotion extends ObjectReference  


Import Game

ActorBase Property UndeadGhost  Auto  

ObjectReference Property bornpoint  Auto  

Int Property PotionCurse  Auto

Int Property TookPotion Auto


Event OnContainerChanged(ObjectReference akNewContainer, ObjectReference akOldContainer)

if PotionCurse==0

if akNewContainer == Game.GetPlayer() 

bornpoint.PlaceAtMe  (UndeadGhost, 2)

Debug.Notification("Undead!!") 

PotionCurse=PotionCurse+1

TookPotion=5

EndIf

EndIf

EndEvent

[WillieSea]

You can use a global variable object.

>Miscellaneous >Global >make a new global object.

In your script, you then add a global property to your newly created global, and you can use it from anywhere.

myGlobalGBL.GetValue()

myGlobalGBL.SetValue(5)

[Tonycubed2]

Wow. I will try it and report back. Beats the other solution I found, using a "as" keyword and referring back to another script which takes forever to setup (at least for me :-) ), then calling a function. Any downside to using a global variable? Seems to good to be true. This is me trying to justify the two days I spent on the other solution.

[WillieSea]

The only downside is that it stores only float values.

It does not matter though, since you can still store int values in a float. And if you need to convert the float to an int, its easyly done.

int myIntNumber

...

myIntNumber = myGlobalGBL.GetValue() as int

You do not need to 'convert' an int into a float, so no errors there.