Stuck in a WHILE loop

It never exits the loop....you can see in my screenshot the two variables are both 3. This should make the WHILE condition false. Infinite loop however...maybe it’s a bug when using an inverted condition (logical Not).

When I step through on the debugger, it just keeps iterating through first task, and never leaves. The game never loads in normal, non-debug mode. Stepping through, the iterations just keep going. You don’t need to know the right hand side. The screenshot shows the conditions are met, but iteration continues.

I will post without debugger in the way tomorrow.

You need to move the condition from sub-event to event #60. "While" and the condition should be in the same event.

I also suggest always adding this "emergency" exit condition to While loops, to prevent infinite loops: loopindex<1000

Hi,

I realise now that I was expecting one of the sub events conditions evaluating to False to cause the WHILE loop to exit, so thanks - it has to be in the same event. Still an issue though, the overlap test is not working. So I can get out of the WHILE loop but it is still leaving overlapped sprites. Can you not check for overlap in the same frame you spawned then?

> You need to move the condition from sub-event to event #60. "While" and the condition should be in the same event.

> I also suggest always adding this "emergency" exit condition to While loops, to prevent infinite loops: loopindex<1000

Hi,

I realise now that I was expecting one of the sub events conditions evaluating to False to cause the WHILE loop to exit, so thanks - it has to be in the same event. Still an issue though, the overlap test is not working. So I can get out of the WHILE loop but it is still leaving overlapped sprites. Can you not check for overlap in the same frame you spawned then?

Regards

S

you should be able to check for overlaps once the item is created, but i think since the overlap checking is under a function you could easily drag the subevent from under while and place it under the function as now u have

Function

---while subevent

------subevent with while as parent

what im suggesting is

function

---while subevent

---check for overlap (with function as parent) -- this way gives it a bit of time to create the items, then check the overlap.

not sure if will work, but logically it should... unless we understand wrong the while loop.

Edit2: if u can use the overlap check on a everytick id separate the "overlap condition" outside the function, and run it always basically... if that is a posibility that will definetly work, just not sure how will affect ur gameplay/system u built, and if u need that!

yes you have to unpin/change position>then pin it back on the object .... i don't think construct changed the way u pin objects ... but as i remember back in C2 u couldn't change the position of an object if was already pined. i mean u could setup the event, but would be overridden by the pin behavior so u wouldn't see any difference.

btw that everytick condition is not needed, you can run the if inverted condition alone, and will act as a everytick condition. and same applies to every other condition that doesn't have that green arrow on it which means trigger one time.

Thanks. In that case, what is every tick for?

for actions that don't need a condition, like updating text everytick... or making something move on a loop without having a condition to change its movement (like a solar eclipse or moon/day moving in ur game, or a score update something of that sort.).

now u can run everytick or just have a condition... and basically if the condition is always true... = everytick... that action will always fire.