Questions regarding text objects

Hi everyone.  Long time windower fan, new to lua and coding in general.  Most of my coding experience is in actionscript and some minor C++ classes.

I'm attempting to write my own addon that will display the Party's HP% on screen, because I can't stand having to look in the corner constantly as a healer.  I'm having a little trouble getting it to work.  I've been reading through the texts.lua alongside the developer wiki and looking at other code, such as enemybar and tparty.  I was hoping someone might find a little time to help me understand a few portions.
 

p1hpp = texts.new(' HP: ${hpp|(100)}%', my_settings)
 

This should create a text object, with the settings I've defined (I copied the default from texts.lua and made changes to them as needed) which will display "HP: 100%" as a default, or replace 100, with whatever value is in p1hpp.hpp correct?

When I take the party info, and set party.p1.hpp to p1hpp.hpp, do I need to type cast it as a str? 

Do I need to define .hpp inside settings?

Thanks in advance if you make the time to reply! 

Hi everyone.  Long time windower fan, new to lua and coding in general.  Most of my coding experience is in actionscript and some minor C++ classes.

I'm attempting to write my own addon that will display the Party's HP% on screen, because I can't stand having to look in the corner constantly as a healer.  I'm having a little trouble getting it to work.  I've been reading through the texts.lua alongside the developer wiki and looking at other code, such as enemybar and tparty.  I was hoping someone might find a little time to help me understand a few portions.
 

 

p1hpp = texts.new(' HP: ${hpp|(100)}%', my_settings)
 

This should create a text object, with the settings I've defined (I copied the default from texts.lua and made changes to them as needed) which will display "HP: 100%" as a default, or replace 100, with whatever value is in p1hpp.hpp correct?

When I take the party info, and set party.p1.hpp to p1hpp.hpp, do I need to type cast it as a str? 

Do I need to define .hpp inside settings?

 

 

Thanks in advance if you make the time to reply! 

i probably have forgotten more about texts then any other

this is my display for my gearswap it might help you out

https://github.com/s...ore/Display.lua

https://github.com/s...Display_sub.lua

This is helpful, since you create/handle them a little differently.  I was able to create a text object on screen, and manipulate it.  Thanks!
 

I should have a completed addon for testing soon.

I have a rough version working right now, including the settings.xml (I hope)

https://github.com/a...ar17/PartyP.git