I made a small script to learn using GetName command, but i cannot make it work properly.

ref target
string_var name (i used: as well.)

Begin OnAdd

set target to getcontainer
set name to target.getname

messageboxEX "Mr/Mrs %n thanks you for your help." name

end

Well... the dialogue works fine, but when i get the result its like this:

Mr/Mrs thanks you for your help"

I used SetActorFullName from console to change the name , maybe it stuck, but i got the same again.
I want it to get actor's name, that uses this script. And i cannot understand where the problem is.
Any help will be great.
Thanks

Don't you need to have the variable "name" at the end of the messagebox line in order to let the command know what %n refers to?

Ah typing mistake.... sorry.
Thats not the problem

This script is on an item in the person's inventory?

The script is attached on item.
When the dialogue starts, it puts the item in his inventory.
Removes it when finished.

Either use %n with a reference (i.e. "target") or %z with a string_var (i.e. "name").

In your case, it is best to stay with the %n, so you don't have to have an extra string_var (which you would have to explicitly destruct before removing the item, btw).

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ref is crushing....my game.
string_var works fine with n% but i cant get the npc name.
only this value.

Have you changed the "%n" to "%z" as QQuix asked you to?

What you did was to first store the name of the container in the name variable, and then try to print out the non-existant name of the name variable, and not its content. To print its content (which should be the name of the container) you need to use "%z". "%n" is only for printing the name of ref variables.

Yes!!!

string_var name
%z

and worked
Thanks