How to add veriable in to AddAction?

[James Grimm 0]

What I want to do is add an action that updates for a sign every sec to display how long time is left for the cooldown.

In the while loop, i want the %1 to be _1. 

_tele = _this select 0;
_caller = _this select 1;

_sign = TestSign;

_Cash = score _caller;
_i = 5;
hint format["you have %1 in cash",_Cash];




while {_i>0} do {
removeAllActions _sign;
_sign addAction ["Cooldown %1",""];

sleep 1;

_i = _i-1;
}else {
removeAllActions _sign;
_sign addAction ["Buy scope WIP","PengarFraga.sqf"];
};

 

[Schatten 284]

@James Grimm, use format command.

Also you can change title of existing action using setUserActionText command, but you need to know its ID.

[James Grimm 0]

I don't understand where in this command(TestSign addAction ["Cooldown %1",""];) to I put the format [Cooldown %1, _i]; @Schatten

[James Grimm 0]

I've got closer it needs to be like this I think TestSign addAction format["Cooldown %1",]; but I don't know where to put the variable for _i

 

[Schatten 284]

@James Grimm,

_sign addAction [format ["Cooldown %1", _i], ""];

 

[Schatten 284]

@James Grimm,

#define START_TIME 5

_formatString = "Cooldown %1";

_id = _sign addAction [format [_formatString, START_TIME], ""];

for "_i" from (START_TIME - 1) to 1 step -1 do {
	sleep 1;

	_sign setUserActionText [_id, format [_formatString, _i]];
};

_sign removeAction _id;

_sign addAction ["Buy scope WIP", "PengarFraga.sqf"];

 

[James Grimm 0]

Thank you it works now. as you can tell I'm new to this. So thank you for your patience.