Groups, groups, groups!

[Shark111 0]

Hello everyone. First of all I'll tell you that I am new to mission editing in OFP, also if I have some experience about editing and programming. In my first serious mission (in development) I encountered these problems:

1) I didn't understand how to deal with groups and distinguish them from single objects. For example I created an infantry squadron, named the leader "patrol1". Then I wrote in the init of one of his men: team=group this; elem=count[team]; titletext[format["the number of elements in the group is %1", elem],"plain down"]

The preview of the mission answered: "the number of elements in group is 1". Why? They were 9 at least!

2) I tried to use setgroupid in the init camp of the group leader, but the group resulted to be "Alpha Black" whatever I wrote. Is there any good guy who can explain me how to define groups and get their properties (number of elems, name etc.)?

Thank you (me setbehavoiour "Grateful!")

[Chris Death 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I wrote in the init of one of his men: team=group this; elem=count[team]; titletext[format["the number of elements in the group is %1", elem],"plain down"]

The preview of the mission answered: "the number of elements in group is 1". Why? <span id='postcolor'>

You were counting the number of arrays inside the element []

The result was: 1, because inside element [] was only the segment "team".

With your method, you placed the whole group (team) into

an array called "elem" as only one segment.

You should have used: elem=team

:this way you can transfer the whole array into the new name

(elem)

: OK, first to say: you don't need to put the result of counting

"team" into another string (elem=count[team]

Rather you can do this:

titletext[format["the number of elements in the group is %1", count team],"plain down"]

If you want to use the array elem, you could do this:

elem=team

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2) I tried to use setgroupid in the init camp of the group leader, but the group resulted to be "Alpha Black" whatever I wrote. Is there any good guy who can explain me how to define groups and get their properties (number of elems, name etc.)?<span id='postcolor'>

have you tried this?;

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group setGroupId id

Operand types:

group: Object or Group

id: Array

Type of returned value:

None

Description:

Set group identity. Id format is [letter,color,picture] or [letter,color]. Letter is one of: "Alpha", "Bravo", "Charlie", "Delta", "Echo", "Foxtrot", "Golf", "Hotel", "Kilo", color is one of "GroupColor0" to "GroupColor7".

Example:

setGroupId ["Alpha", "GroupColor0"]<span id='postcolor'>

~S~ CD