Drawing variables in text with GML, And drawing times

When I type this code, it returns an error

However, it works just fine when I do this

Here's the error message

does anyone know the problem?

EDIT: as well as this, i need help drawing times. I can't work with GMs funky numbers it generates for the date and time.

This post has been edited by Zisomek on Nov 12 2007, 05:06 PM

I think it might have something to do with the fact that you used ":".
Puncuation is better off not being used for variables and GML.
I'm not sure how to bypass this, though.

I'm trying to make the colon between the hour and minutes.

Yeah, I understand that. It's just that using any puncuation in GML causes an error like that, whether it's : ; , . or ' (like putting a period at the end of a sentence messes it up). So I'm not sure on how to fix it, but that must be the problem.

But maybe this will work: instead of using +, remove it altogether:

global.hour":"global.time

It might work, but then it might not.

or try "global.hour+string(":")+global.time"

That may not work though ...

A full stop might work better if all else fails, and you could then draw two of them. A little more work but the same effect.

draw_text(32,32,global.yourname)
draw_text(32,64,global.date)
draw_text(32,96,string(global.hour)+":"+string(global.time))

??

Littlink's code will work.
Just fyi, GML can't draw a real value (meaning a number) and a string (ascii characters) together. To make a real value a string, just put it in string(x).
(global.hour and global.time are numbers, so they are real values)