skTotal

[Frodie]

I am trying to get a tracker to show the total amount in a chosen skill. But it only seems to show the ranks. Any ideas

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if (field[usrChosen1].ischosen <> 0) then
field[usrChosen1].chosen.field[skTotal].value += field[trkMax].value
endif

[RavenX]

Frodie,

If you want the tracker to show the total amount, you need to alter what you've done slightly to:

field[trkMax].value += field[usrChosen1].chosen.field[skTotal].value

The way you've set up your code you're telling Hero Lab to add the tracker to the skill total, not set the tracker equal to it. The line of code I've provided you, says to Hero Lab, set the tracker value equal to the skill total field.

[Frodie]

Very cool, thank you!!!

[RavenX]

No problem. Just bear in mind that coding isn't the same as algebra.
If you wish to set something equal to something else, you have to put the field you want to inherit the value on the left of your equal sign or incrementation functions (+=, -=, *=, /=). The object to be inherited should always be on the right hand side.

In our minds X = 8 is the same as 8 = X, but code compilers read things in the way they are programmed to. X = 8 would be saying set the variable X to be 8 in the compiler, but 8 = X would give errors because you're setting a constant equal to an unknown quantity in the compiler's programmed way of reading the data.