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Variable Formatting
Does anyone know how to change a variable style? I'm making a game using a count variable, and once my score gets above 1,000, the variable displays as 1000. I'd like to add the comma into the displ...
Hi. Was this ever resolved?
Yes, the contact I received said it wasn't possible at this time.
Bummer. thank you! I tried searching the forum and didn't see what I was looking for. Chat GPT offered something, but I couldn't get it to work.
See the simple example attached (read the JavaScript in the ExecuteJavascript trigger). As Walt indicated, you need to send the numeric variable to JavaScript, insert the commas, convert it to a string (text), and then send it back to Storyline and display it as a separate text variable.
(Note that this is a very old example. There are more modern ways of doing this in JavaScript nowadays but this old code still functions.)
