Help with "Pick Object With Highest Variable"

I need some help with the "Pick Object With Highest Variable" action. I made a simple cap with three instances of a sprite object. The objects each have a private variable called cSpeed, set to 1, 2 and 3 respectively. Then, during the startup, I call "Pick Object With Highest Variable" and tell it too look at the objects' speeds. Then I set a text object to the cSpeed of the object that was selected.

It seems like it should be simple enough, but nothing happens. The text field never changes. If I put a message box action after the "Pick Object With Highest Variable" condition, it never fires. I feel like I'm missing something here.

Pick Object With Highest Variable Cap

Thanks for the help

They all have 'destroy on startup' attribute ticked.

They all have 'destroy on startup' attribute ticked.

Ah yes, yes...... so sorry for that..... That one little box makes a big difference apparently. Thanks for taking the time to check out the file and for the response.

Now things work pretty well when I start the cap with three character objects created at startup. However, when I spawn the characters as we've learned about in the platform tutorial, things don't go so well. At runtime, I create three character objects and assign them cSpeeds of 1,2 and 3 and I can see that each character has the correct cSpeed, but the "Pick Object With Highest Variable" action picks the character with cSpeed = 1.

Static and Spawning Characters

It works if you do it on any other tick than the start of layout one.

I think this is a bug, so submit it to the tracker .