Incrementing in setElementData with no additional variable ?

[crismar]

I've seen in some scripts some sort of:

setElementData(thePlayer, "Thingy", +1) 

Tried that but didn't get it to work, is it possible or I just have a bad memory ? At the moment I'm using an additional variable to store the oldValue with getElementData then do setElementData(thePlayer, "Thingy", oldValue + 1)

Ideas ?

[Karuzo]

setElementData(thePlayer, "Thingy", +1) 

I'm not sure but that won't make any sense since you just don't have a variable to add the 1.

So you should do it like you said with the oldValue+1 .

[Saml1er]

  
local oldValue = tonumber (getElementData(thePlayer, "Thingy") ) 
if type (oldValue) == "number" then 
setElementData(thePlayer, "Thingy", oldValue + 1 ) 
end 
  

[Vinctus]

  
local oldValue = tonumber (getElementData(thePlayer, "Thingy") ) 
if type (oldValue) == "number" then 
setElementData(thePlayer, "Thingy", oldValue + 1 ) 
end 
  

I don't see the point for if oldValue == "number" as you just made it a number on line before, also this works just fine aswell:

local oldValue = getElementData(thePlayer, "Thingy")  or 0 
setElementData(thePlayer, "Thingy", tonumber(oldValue) + 1 ) 
  

[iPrestege]

  
local oldValue = tonumber (getElementData(thePlayer, "Thingy") ) 
if type (oldValue) == "number" then 
setElementData(thePlayer, "Thingy", oldValue + 1 ) 
end 
  

I don't see the point for if oldValue == "number" as you just made it a number on line before, also this works just fine aswell:

local oldValue = getElementData(thePlayer, "Thingy")  or 0 
setElementData(thePlayer, "Thingy", tonumber(oldValue) + 1 ) 
  

Actually it is to check if the data was a number or not.

[Vinctus]

  
local oldValue = tonumber (getElementData(thePlayer, "Thingy") ) 
if type (oldValue) == "number" then 
setElementData(thePlayer, "Thingy", oldValue + 1 ) 
end 
  

I don't see the point for if oldValue == "number" as you just made it a number on line before, also this works just fine aswell:

local oldValue = getElementData(thePlayer, "Thingy")  or 0 
setElementData(thePlayer, "Thingy", tonumber(oldValue) + 1 ) 
  

Actually it is to check if the data was a number or not.

Yes, I realized, but what I was saying was:

local oldValue = tonumber (getElementData(thePlayer, "Thingy") ) <-- You make it a number here with tonumber()

if type (oldValue) == "number" then <-- yet you check if it's a number if you just made it a number