Get Client's ID/Name with Script ?

[Wrecking Crew]

Hi, trying to get the Client's name to output from a script.. This is the code, the problem is line #4 "local unitID = Unit.getID(unitName)", the error is below.

 

local grpName = 'UH-1H 03 FARP London'
local unitNameManpads = 'BLF VGrp90 Stinger'
local unitName = Group.getByName(grpName):getUnit(1):getName()
local unitID = Unit.getID(unitName)
trigger.action.outText(unitID ' just dropped off a Stinger team!', 20)

 

 

The first three lines run fine. The error comes from line #4 for the unitID. How do I retrieve the Client's name? The unitID is sposed to be a Client's name, like "Wrecking Crew", to output 20 seconds of text of "Wrecking Crew just dropped off a Stinger team!"

 

Also, I tried this for line #4 --

local grpName = 'UH-1H 03 FARP London'
local unitNameManpads = 'BLF VGrp90 Stinger'
local unitName = Group.getByName(grpName):getUnit(1):getName()
local unitID = Group.getByName(grpName):getUnit(1):getID()
trigger.action.outText(unitID ' just dropped off a Stinger team!', 20)

 

Which generated this error --

 

 

WC

Edited November 30, 2014 by Wrecking Crew

[FSFIan]

You need to use the ".." operator to concatenate text.

 

In Lua, if you call a function with a single argument that is a string literal or a table literal (don't know about other cases), the parentheses are optional.

 

Currently, Lua is reading your last line as the following:

trigger.action.outText(unitID(' just dropped off a Stinger team!'), 20)

 

Try replacing it with

trigger.action.outText(unitID .. ' just dropped off a Stinger team!', 20)

That should make your second example work.

 

In your first example, you are calling Unit.getID with a string, but it expects a unit object.

[Wrecking Crew]

Thank you Ian, again!

 

I thought that '..' in the text out was to concatenate numerical values with the rest of the text.

 

Adding the '..' fixed the error. Now when I land the helicopter, the Stinger team gets dropped off, and this text is displayed, "279 just dropped off a Stinger team!"

 

With a slight change, I am able to get the player (Client) name --

 

local grpName = 'UH-1H 03 FARP London'
local unitNameManpads = 'BLF VGrp90 Stinger'
local unitName = Group.getByName(grpName):getUnit(1):getName()
local unitPlayerName = Group.getByName(grpName):getUnit(1):getPlayerName()
trigger.action.outText(unitPlayerName .. ' just dropped off a Stinger team!', 20)

 

WC