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May 11, 2023 at 2:13 am
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Keymaster
Hi,
PennController elements do not correspond to any native javascript type, and in particular PennController Var elements do not correspond to javascript variables. As illustrated here, you can pass a Var element to the text
command on a Text element to set its value dynamically. In your case, it would look something like this:
newVar("hitext").set(getVar("ID")).set(v=>`hi, ${v}`), newText("instructions-1").text( getVar("hitext") )
Jeremy