Choosing between objects while Creating an Object by Name. Help!

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the choose command doesn't see the contents of the variable as a list to choose from. it only sees the single text value.

so you will probably have to do something like:

set tempVariable to choose("Sp_B1","Sp_B2","Sp_B3","Sp_B4","Sp_B5","Sp_B6","Sp_B7")

create object by name tempVariable

then set the instance variable to tempVariable

I think i might have not been successful in explaining the situation correctly, Let me rephrase it again in a simpler way with an example,

Lets say there are three objects:

"Sp_Data", "Sp_B1" and "Sp_B2",

where object "Sp_Data" have an instance variable named "BChoice" with value "choose("Sp_B1","Sp_B2")"

Now i want to create object randomly between Sp_B1 & Sp_B2 so i so i create this event,

1. Every X Second >>> Create Object by name(Choose("Sp_B1","Sp_B2"))______This works fine!

But i want this event to take the value of name from the instance variable of object "Sp_Data" that is "Bchoice" so i create this event,

2. Every X Second >>> Create Object by name(Sp_Data.BChoice)______This does not work!

So question is what do i do to make event "2" work?

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ok, I see what you mean... choose cannot be used with a single variable like that, so you will have to use tokenCount and tokenAt.

set the Sp_Data.BChoice to the list of possible objects "Sp_B1,Sp_B2,Sp_B3..."

then: create object(tokenat(SP_Data.BChoice,floor(random(tokencount(SP_Data.BChoice,","))),","))

what that does is count how many choices there are:

HowMany = tokencount(SP_Data.BChoice,",")

then randomly chooses one of them:

WhichOne = floor(random(HowMany))

and then extracts the text of the one choosen:

tokenat(SP_Data.BChoice,WhichOne,",")

https://www.rieperts.com/games/forum/createbyname2.c3p

Thanks AllanR i will try "tokencount" solution, i am sure it will work.

And i do need list to change dynamically.