Replacing Objects

In almost every situation when I want to replace an object in the script, and that line contains an expression using the object being replaced, I keep having to go in and manually change the name. I think it's better to automatically rename the expression object of the same name as well by default. Thoughts?

Already in ... Right click on the action to remplace the object in it ... you can even replace conditions ...

That's not what I'm asking for. You never noticed the word "expression" I think.

Not necessary. Take a look at this example

SpriteA -> set height to SpritA.Height + 10

but You want to change it to

SpriteB -> set height to SpritA.Height + 10

Sometimes You want to change only an object but keep expression intact.

For what You want You could use

SpriteA -> set height to self.Height + 10 - that way expression will be valid for any replaced object.

Well, sorry, but I've never seen a reason to keep the same object name for a different object (I think your example is a little contrived from reality ;) ). Anyhow, I guess 'Self' is better practice actually, I completely forgot about that! LOL. ;)

(I think your example is a little contrived from reality ;)

Actually it's not. It all depends what are You developing/prototyping.

And btw that example, I used that few hours ago ;)

You may have, but I'm sure 98% of the time it's not the case. ;) I think it's better to change the names by default and let the developer change it back, since that's the expected result in probably 98% of the cases. But, that's probably a moot point now since best practice is probably to use "Self". ;)

Construct 2 already does this. I just checked, and it does update the names of objects in expressions when replacing.

You mean when right clicking an action and selecting "replace object"? Didn't work for me.

Yeah, it worked for me. Can you provide a specific example of it not working? (Share a .capx and say which event to replace object on)

Ok, this may be a bug actually. Consider this (taken from the 3D game I just posted in the arcade):

+Tree -> Set TransformedX to Tree.WorldX - CameraX

This renames ok (if I copy and rename it to the "Grass" sprite object), however ...

+Tree -> Set TransformedZ to WorldDepth - f.Call("RotateZYForZ", distFromHorizon, Tree.TransformedY, WorldTilt)

...does not. It would seem that parameters are ignored. ;) Seems like somewhat inconsistent behavior.

Edit: Again, before anyone calls me out on this, yes, best practice is to use "Self". I just figure consistent behavior is also good to maintain. ;)

Yeah, it worked for me. Can you provide a specific example of it not working? (Share a .capx and say which event to replace object on)

I'v noticed yesterday that it's doing it but not always... On my project it's a bit random. Sometimes it's only changing an Action object and sometimes Action object and object in expression. Unfortunately can't reproduce it in new projects.

OK, I think I can reproduce a problem with parameters to the Function.Call expression. As far as I can tell no other expressions are affected. Is this what you're seeing?

You should report this type of thing to the Bugs forum; I don't always have time to check every thread so I might have missed this, but I always check everything in the bugs forum.

Actually this started out as a request, which turned into a bug. LOL. ;) np