How Construct runs through events

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- mumu64
- - Joined 8 Feb, 2009
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Construct goes through the event list from top to bottom and checks if the condition is true, otherwise it ignores it.

(event 1)

+ if switch is 1

-> say "1"

(event 2)

+ if switch is 2

-> set switch to 1

-> say "2"

-> set switch to 2

My expectation would be (when switch = 2) what construct would do:
- ignore event 1
- go inside event 2, change switch to 1
- say "2"
- set switch to 2
Screen result: "2".

But when I preview this, it seems to also do something with event 1!

I don't understand this.

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- tulamide
- - Joined 11 Sep, 2009
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I tried to replicate this in CC with the following:
+ System: Is global variable 'switch' Equal to 1 -> Text: Set text to "1" + System: Is global variable 'switch' Equal to 2 -> System: Set global variable 'switch' to 1 -> Text2: Set text to "2" -> System: Set global variable 'switch' to 2 + Button: On Button clicked -> System: Add 1 to global variable 'switch' -> Text: Set text to "" -> Text2: Set text to ""

It works as it should. With 'switch' = 0 both textboxes are empty, with 'switch' = 1 the first one is filled, and with 'switch' = 2 the second one is filled.

It may be .84 or a special case (e.g. if you are using the function object. Functions are aside of the order of events)

Other than that I'm clueless.
- zenox98
- - Joined 30 Jun, 2010
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Just out of interest, rogerty, why haven't you upgraded to r1.2?

I haven't had a crash with this version for....well, I can't actually remember :)
- newt
- - Joined 12 Nov, 2008
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Well you don't have anything telling it not to continuously run through events so it may just be that its running that event again before the variable is switched.