Help turning a drawable name into a string.

[Cookie10monster]

Hello, I am working on a game and I want to have it so that when you mouse over an item in your inventory, it tells you what it is. Currently, I have all the items in the Inventory as drawables. ex. Inventory.item[1] = Stone (stone is a drawable). I think I need to move away from this system and find a different way to store the information, but I am not sure which way I should do this. Should I have the items be just a name and have a table with the images for it? ex.
Images[Stone] = love.graphics.newImage("Stone.png)
Inventory.item[1] = Stone
love.graphics.draw(Images[Inventory.item[1]]

of should I somehow create a Stone object and attach a drawable to it? Thank you!

[Muzz]

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print(tostring(Inventory.item[1]))

Thats the easiest way to do it, though i would suggest just saving a string internally in each object.

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images[stone].name = "stone"

print(Inventory.item[1].name)

Hope that makes sense.

[Cookie10monster]

tostring just printed "image", but I am working on the second option. Thank you!

[Muzz]

Haha whoops yeah.

That's what i get for providing help at 5 am in the morning >_>

[Ranguna259]

In your exemple, Stone, is a variable that has not be defined yet, not a string variable.
When you do:

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Images[Stone] = love.graphics.newImage("Stone.png)

(firstly, you'll get an error because you forgot a " in the end of "Stone.png, this is the correct way of doing this:)

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Images[Stone] = love.graphics.newImage("Stone.png")

Secondly, if you don't define the variable Stone then that is the same way as writing this:

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Images[nil] = love.graphics.newImage("Stone.png")

And you'll get an error saying that you can't index a nil value, so you probably want to do this:

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Images["Stone"] = love.graphics.newImage("Stone.png")

You have to put Stone inside "", this way Lua will interpert Stone as a string and not as a variable.
Or you could define the variable Stone first, like so:

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Stone = "Stone" --variable Stone in a string variable containing the string "Stone"
Images[Stone] = love.graphics.newImage("Stone.png")

After that what, you'll want to do to save the name of the item is to write the string "Stone" into your item table:

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Inventory.item[1] = "Stone" 

or:

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Stone = "Stone"
Inventory.item[1] = Stone