floating text count down

hi all,

i have a problem that i cant seem to solve. i have a prim that displays a counter, which for testing purposes starts at 10 and works down to 0 i have it written so the prim detects the collision from a projectile, once the counter reaches 0 i have the prim alpha out and go phantom.

now my problem is, i have an integer for the actual count down within the script and the way i have it right now is this...

everytime a hit is registered the count goes down by one, and i've manually set it so (very basically)

if count = 10 then the text displayed is 10, if count = 9, the text is 9 and so on...

now my question is this, given that when i finish testing the count wil be 100 and not 10, is there a simpler way to have the floating text display?

i've tried physically displaying the count integer but obviously there's a problem. is there a way to set say a string varible of "displaytext" to equal the count integer?

any help would be apprecitate, thank you

typecasting is your friend

(string)9
(string)8
(string)countdown_integer
ect

can you explain in a bit more detail, the LSL entry for typecasting doesnt even seem to work, compiling the example gives me a syntax error so i dont know

This is a really stupid sample but it compiles!

integer counter = 10;

whine() {
    llSetText("I am going to scream after " + (string) counter + " more hits.", <1,1,1>, 1);
}

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        whine();
    }

    
    touch_start(integer numtouches)
    {
        if (counter > 1) {
            counter--;
            whine();
        }
        else {
            llSetText("WAHHHHHHHHHH!", <1,0,0>, 1);
        }
    }

}

be aware that setting hover text causes a full prim update, which means all it's info gets resent to every person in view range.... doing this often over time, or with many objects can contribute to lag

thanks for the help, got it running perfectly ^^