Beginner problem: SetValue not meett the given condition. Help!

[Guest Audas]

Hi, I'm a beginner with addons dev and I'm currently trying to write a simple addon which shows a message when the player moves (yeah!). I'm basing on the SampleZoneAnnounce but for some reason I'm getting the errors below when I call wtMessage:SetVal( "value", "Player moved!" ).

Info: addon MyTracker: MyTracker init

Info: addon MyTracker: EventAvatarPosChanged

Error: addon MyTracker:

Error: addon MyTracker:

Error: addon MyTracker: func: SetVal, method, line: -1, defined: C, line: -1, [c]

Error: addon MyTracker: func: OnEventAvatarPosChanged, global, line: 14, defined: Lua, line: 10, [string "mods/addons/mytracker/scriptmytracker.lua"]

Error: addon MyTracker: Widgets::LuaSetVal: param 3 (type: string) not meet the given condition: , details: int __cdecl Widgets::LuaSetVal(struct lua_State *)

Here is my code:

Code:

Global( "wtArrow", nil )

Global( "wtMessage", nil )

function OnEventAvatarPosChanged(params)

LogInfo( "EventAvatarPosChanged" )

wtMessage:SetVal( "value", "Player Moved!" )      -- problem here

wtMessage:Show( true )

end

function Init()

LogInfo( "MyTracker init" )

wtMessage = mainForm:GetChildChecked( "Announce", false )

wtMessage:Show( false )

common.RegisterEventHandler( OnEventAvatarPosChanged, "EVENT_AVATAR_POS_CHANGED" )  

end

Init()

How to fix this error?

[Ciuine]

Text Views or Valued Texts require userdata, which means you need to convert to WString via userMods.ToWString("Player Moved!").

This line is telling you that; Error: addon MyTracker: Widgets::LuaSetVal: param 3 (type: string) not meet the given condition: , details: int __cdecl Widgets::LuaSetVal(struct lua_State *)

What it says is that the third paramater, in this case, Param1:SetVal("param2", "param3") is a string, but should be something else. It doesn't specify what else it should be because there are a lot of userdata formats that can fit in it.

[Guest Audas]

Thanks Ciuine for your explanation. It's working now.