Yeah it is simply public String getStr() { return theString; }

Maybe I am a bit confused, maybe I do not have enough information to help. But I noticed in your assignCard() method above that you are changing 'playercard' to the value that is in 'card'; ?! Should they not be switched -- assigning 'card' to the value of 'playercard' (which already has a value)? Oh, I see, that was setting the value of 'playercard' What is 'theString', it that actually part of your code?

AwsomeNameGuy, I suggest you upload the scenario (with source) so that we can take a better look at it. There's nothing obviously wrong with the code you have shown above. If you do upload it, make sure to post a link to it in this discussion!

Thanks for the replys. I figured it out, only took 3 hours of trying different stuff and pulling my hair out, it was driving me crazy! It seemed like it should have been so simple! Yeah theString was in the code, it is assigned a value depending on what type of card it is, which is determined in a constructor. It's not the actual code word for word, I changed it to make it more obvious what it was, but it is basically the same, just names have been changed. The problem was, the card doesn't get assigned a string right away when it is made, it gets assigned a string when act() is called ( if (!stringAssigned) {assignString();} ) and assignString() just assigned a value to theString based on what type of card it was. So I was trying to get the string before the card had even acted, and theString was still null. The problem was solved by putting assignString() into the constructor where I think it probably should have been in the first place. It eluded me because when I inspected playercard the variables were what they were supposed to be, I guess I didn't know that actors that weren't part of the world acted! If that makes sense. EDIT: I might upload the source, I dunno, I just want to work on it a little while longer.

For the future, here's a tip how you can debug this sort of thing. The first question to ask would have been: Is the string you're getting from the card not being assigned correctly, or is it assigned correctly, but it was actually null? To investigate this: If you have the card as an actor visible in the world: Right-click on the card, select "Inspect" and look at the current value of the string field. If the card is not visible on screen (but the player is): Inspect the player in the same way; select the 'playercard' field, and inspect that in turn. Again, check the string. In general: when unexpected things happen, inspecting the state of the objects helps! Michael