CORRECT way to Toggle!

This is a common mistake that people make without realising th effect of it. They make some simple toggle code, but then find out it doesn't work because it will only show one of the two or more possibilities. It's an easy fix by adding 1 event, and one condition to each other event, and I thought I'd post both the wrong and right way for people to see and understand it better.

Note: This method is better than toggling active objects' flags because those can only be on or off, wheras with this method, you can have unlimited toggle states. ;)

There is usually not one correct way to do it. Attached are some alternatives (use space bar to trigger the examples). The first of my examples is the one most suitable for more than two states, so if you need to do that, replace 0-Display Object( "Toggle Grey" ) with (Display Object( "Toggle Grey" )+1) mod [number of states]

Thanks Nifflas.

Marv

Nice examples, Nifflas!

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Originally Posted by Nifflas

There is usually not one correct way to do it. Attached are some alternatives (use space bar to trigger the examples). The first of my examples is the one most suitable for more than two states, so if you need to do that, replace 0-Display Object( "Toggle Grey" ) with (Display Object( "Toggle Grey" )+1) mod [number of states]

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You know I was thinking about using mod in a way like that. I'm always just a step behind!

-Variant

What you're talking about is "cycling" not "toggling".
Neither is "correct" or "better" - they're just used for two different purposes.

We should have a separate forum for these kind of threads. I love example threads or informative threads that show common mistakes or unique ways of doing things or even complex but basic things in mmf2, without looking through tutorials, of course.

Yes, I have had trouble with toggling... I found ways around it, but they seem messy. Is there anything significantly simpler than this example?

Does this do the same thing Lego Catcher?

Can't you just do user clicks on object: Toggle Flag 0? Then there is just one more event Flag 0 is on: Set position of active to Mouse, which I consider signifigantly simpler.

Wow yep. That's nice! I should'a thought of that! Thanks!


btw... it's legocacher (pronounced: lego-casher)
It is a takeoff of geocaching because i like legos and geocaching. The main root word is Cache like a computer cache.

as LB said. just something like press space - toggle flag(x) of an object.