Trying to set a Text object to a private variable, returns 0

Basically, what I'm trying to do is set it up so the name of the room the player is in is displayed on the HUD. I have several tiled background objects that act as floors, and they all have a private variable named RoomName.

I want to make it so that when the player overlaps the floor, the variable RoomName for that object is displayed on the HUD, but for some reason no matter what I do, it always displays 0, even when I set the default text for it to something else.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Hard to say. You should post your .cap so someone can take a look.

I have a Text object with the default text set to Lobby

Then, I have a tiled background object, with the RoomName varable set to Storage Room

And then, on the "On overlapping object" event for the player with the tiled background, I have it setting the value of the Text object to the RoomName of the tiled background.

If that doesn't help, I'll post the .cap

Setting the value? Or setting the text? They're two different things.

Anyway, it's working for me:

http://files.getdropbox.com/u/529356/rooms.cap

If you can't figure out what's wrong from that .cap then you should post yours.

use the set text action.

set it to object('roomname') without string "quotes"

should work fine

Here's the cap file.

http://www.mediafire.com/?kykye2zjizm

And yes, sorry. It's setting the text, not the value.

Also, your .cap file says it was made in a later version of Construct, even though I'm using the most up to date version from the website. Is there a beta out or something?

Also, your .cap file says it was made in a later version of Construct, even though I'm using the most up to date version from the website. Is there a beta out or something?

Oops! Sorry about that

Yes, there is a new unstable release out:

But even though it's labeled "unstable" it's actually pretty stable.

Anyway, here's your problem:

<img src="http://i42.tinypic.com/e7h2j8.png">

Your variable type is "Number." Set that to "Text" and you'll be good to go.

Hmm, I changed it to text, but it still only returns 0. I wonder what else I'm doing wrong.

it works fine for me, although I had to change it to text, and add a default value

<img src="http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1013446/New%20Folder/CustomKeys/CaptureRoom.PNG">

I just changed roomname to text and typed "hello" next to roomname and it worked fine

Ah, I just figured out why It wasn't working.

2 things, the variable was set to number rather than text, and I was checking the collisions for the purely visual animated part of the player, rather than the square mask I'm using for collisions.