How to set dynamic text to a variable?

Question

Im trying out adobe animate for school and until now ive been following a cool rpg game tutorial. but the tutorial ended quicky and now im left on my own browsing the internet. i wanted to add a little star collector feature but the tutorial i found is for flash and i dont know how to use it.

their code is pretty much

money = 0;

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (_root.move_mc.hitTest (this)) {
_root.money++;
this._x = -50;
this._y = -50;
}
}

and i hanged it to

     var star:Number = 0;

    if(linkMc.hitBoxMc.hitTestObject(overworldMc.starMc1))
    {
        star += 1;
        overworldMc.starMc1.alpha = 0;
    }

and it works but now i need to figure out a way to set up a text n the corner telling you how many stars you have.

[link to their image] (https://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/images/textBox_settings.JPG)((((i cant post images yet as i dont have enough points)))) but my version of adobe animate doesnt seem to have the var option! so how do i set up the text?

Answer 1

Try some logic like below. The code is untested, but should be useful to you towards a working solution:

var star :int = 0;

//# create an *enterFrame* function for multiple stars
overworldMc.starMc1.addEventListener( Event.ENTER_FRAME, myClipEvent ); 
overworldMc.starMc2.addEventListener( Event.ENTER_FRAME, myClipEvent );
overworldMc.starMc3.addEventListener( Event.ENTER_FRAME, myClipEvent );

function myClipEvent( myEvt:Event ) :void
{
    //# or... myEvt.currentTarget
    if(myEvt.target.hitTestObject(linkMc.hitBoxMc))
    {
        star += 1; //can be... star++;

        myEvt.target.alpha = 0; //# also test replacing *target* with *currentTarget*

        //# use String( xxx ) to cast Numeric data type into a Text data type
        money_box.text = String(star) + " " + "Stars..."; 
    }
}