Variable reference for unnamed unit

[charon productions 10]

Search has yielded a few old topics and the suggestions made there don`t work for me.

My problem:

I have unnamed units that i have to leave unnamed

I write the string of the unit`s variable into a listbox

lbSetData [204, _index, format ["%1",_gr select _i]];

I read the listbox out

lbData [204, _i]

Convert the string to code

and want to get a pointer to that unit again.

_unit =

IF i used arrays there would be an unpleasant lag, because there is hundreds of elements in the arrays already.

I have tried :

call compile format ["_unit = %1", lbData [204, _i]];

which should work but it doesn`t. _unit stays empty.

Also if i use unit as (global variable) without underscore.

I guess the problem is that the engine does not

accept a command line like : _unit = 0 1-1-3W;

Is there any workaround someone can think of other than arrays to get a pointer to that unit again?

Has anyone succesfully done something similar?

[shuko 59]

Whats the reason why you cant name them?

[charon productions 10]

It would be an enormous effort to re-organize/re-write many scripts that i already have that add units to the listboxes and give names to them at these points.

The appilcation that i write is just to monitor troops, i don`t wanna interfere with mission makers naming preferences.

I kind of like these generic names in a way too.

[charon productions 10]

Okay now i have named all unnamed units by script command setvehiclevarname , but still cant get

a pointer from the listbox string to the actual unit that would have the type object.

I got the error that it is a string or sometimes a number and not an object, i used :

call compile format ["_unit = %1;", lbData [204, _i]];

and this is how i named the unnamed units (i name them with themselves, just to get them named):

_VarName=format ["%1",_x];

_x setVehicleVarName _VarName;

_x Call Compile "_VarName=_This ;";

I don`t get any errors when i name units in the Editor regularly, but using setvehiclevarname

creates problems.

Can anyone help me?

Edited September 24, 2009 by Charon Productions