[AS3] assigning game score to a dynamic text

[szymek.k3]

Hello
In my game I want to add score, I have created a variable named score and succesfully added the score number in the main game loop. I traced it to see if it increases and it does.

Now I want to show the score to the user and I created a new movieclip named "xScore", in it I made a dynamic text box and given it an instance name - "gameScore".
In my game class I declared the gameScore variable:

public var gameScore:xScore;

Then created the text box in the game constructor:

gameScore = new xScore();
			gameScore.x=10;
			gameScore.y=10;
			addChild(gameScore);

Finally I tried to show the score varaible in my main game loop:
Attempt 1:

gameScore.text=score;

Attempt 2:

gameScore.text=score.toString();

None worked and I don't get any errors, the random number i typed in the dynamic text box doesn't change, I also tried to leave it blank, which didn't work either.

[Biodiscus]

Try:

gameScore.text = ""+score;
//Or
gameScore.text = String(score);

[szymek.k3]

Even when I put in:

gameScore.text ="Score: "+score;

The "Score:" didn't show, so I'm guessing there must be something wrong when I'm creating the dynamic text.

[Biodiscus]

How do you make the gameScore? And how do you make the score variables?

[szymek.k3]

My first post explains gameScore:

Originally Posted by szymek.k3

Hello
In my game I want to add score, I have created a variable named score and succesfully added the score number in the main game loop. I traced it to see if it increases and it does.

Now I want to show the score to the user and I created a new movieclip named "xScore", in it I made a dynamic text box and given it an instance name - "gameScore".
In my game class I declared the gameScore variable:

public var gameScore:xScore;

Then created the text box in the game constructor:

gameScore = new xScore();
			gameScore.x=10;
			gameScore.y=10;
			addChild(gameScore);

Finally I tried to show the score varaible in my main game loop:
Attempt 1:

gameScore.text=score;

Attempt 2:

gameScore.text=score.toString();

None worked and I don't get any errors, the random number i typed in the dynamic text box doesn't change, I also tried to leave it blank, which didn't work either.

This is how I made the score variable:

Game Class:

public var score;

Game Constructor:

score=0;

Main Game loop:

score+=1;
         trace(score);

This all works fine until I have to show this variable to the user using dynamic text.

[szymek.k3]

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[szymek.k3]

I solved it! Well with a little hint from somebody

I had to change the way I displayed the text - not through a movieclip.

Game Class

public var gameScore:TextField = new TextField();

Game Constructor

addChild(gameScore);

Main Game Loop

gameScore.text ="Score: "+score;