ZDoom

Thanks for the attentiveness.

[quote="Gutawer"]It seems to me that this is essentially the same feature request as this one - https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=56590&p=999932.[/quote]
Correct. Thank you for pointing that out.

It seems to me that this is essentially the same feature request as this one - https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=56590&p=999932.
As far as I'm aware, GZDoom converts strings to StateLabels at compile time and there's no way to convert them to a StateLabel during runtime. If that feature was added in, this would work too.

str stat = StrParam(s:"Cyclus", d:phase);  // phase has a value of 0-27
SetActorState(moonTID, stat);

switch (phase)
{
	case 0: SetStateLabel("Cyclus0"); break;
	case 1: SetStateLabel("Cyclus1"); break;
	case 2: SetStateLabel("Cyclus2"); break;
	case 3: SetStateLabel("Cyclus3"); break;
 etc. (you get the idea :))

string stat = string.format("%s%d", "Cyclus", phase);
SetStateLabel(stat);

Concerning setting state in ACS I could code this:
[code]
str stat = StrParam(s:"Cyclus", d:phase); // phase has a value of 0-27
SetActorState(moonTID, stat);[/code]

In ZScript in the code of the actor I have to use this ugly switch for 28 different states:
[code]
switch (phase)
{
case 0: SetStateLabel("Cyclus0"); break;
case 1: SetStateLabel("Cyclus1"); break;
case 2: SetStateLabel("Cyclus2"); break;
case 3: SetStateLabel("Cyclus3"); break;
etc. (you get the idea :))
[/code]

instead of just coding this:
[code]
string stat = string.format("%s%d", "Cyclus", phase);
SetStateLabel(stat);
[/code]
which is not allowed ('cannot convert string to statelabel').
So, it would be nice to allow setting statelabel with a formatted string like in the example (for at least actors with no monster-AI like the ACS function).