Feature suggestion for Flags

(I've been hanging around this forum for a while now but I don't know if there's a better place for this kind of threads,
so - sorry if this is misplaced!)

I was thinking that a nice (and maybe easy to implement?) feature for Fusion
could be having the chance to name internal flags of active objects,
and "flag" them on/off from the frame editor
just as we do with alterable values / strings.

Thus allowing for a wide range of pre-selections for objects
without need to "code" them in the event editor.

Since I noticed I often use alterable values for this kind of jobs,
and they are a little "wasted" for these yes/no tasks

i.e. like:

"is_movable"
"collision_active"
"is_enemy"
"is_player"
or such..

And flags could be possibly a little faster too >> good practice using them instead of alt. values for boolean things

And flags may be underused now due to their awkward traceability, this could make them more useful

So I thought this could be a nice feature to implement in Fusion.

Thanks for reading :)

named flags would solve a lot of debugging headaches. +1

maybe for fusion 3, I'd like to be able to select an object in the event editor and filter to show only the lines where a given flag/value is used

I wanted to edit my post, but it deleted it, so I'll repost it.

I agree, I sometimes avoid using flags even though they may be more appropriate as a boolean switch, precisely because they aren't labelled. I know if I come back in a month or so and need another flag, I won't remember if I've already used one or not!

I think this would make a good feature request on the bug box.

I can see that being able to preset the flag to on or off would be useful but I can live without that - naming flags is the most important thing for me!

I also have come back to projects not knowing what the different flags are, or what ones i have used.
Now i allways put a special colored 'comment' at the top of the Event Editor, stating something like:

ObjectA
Flag 0 = Object is stationary
Flag 1 = Object has Item
etc
etc

+1 for naming flags in Fusion 2.5
In Fusion 3 it would be nice to have the opportunity to create as many variables as needed, and determine their type (i.e. boolean, number, strings, etc.) according to their intended use.

This would be very nice

It's very easy to lose track of what flags do what as it is now

Pop it in the BugBox and see what kind of response you get...

Filed in the bugbox:
http://bugbox.clickteam.com/issues/3295

Thank you for your replies and suggestion.

This would be a huge time saver. I can't tell you how often I have to dig through tons of event lines just to figure out what my flags are for or when I pick an already used flag by mistake then wonder why my game suddenly broke.

I may have missed this completely but being able to activate a group based on a value would be great instead of having a bunch of value=1 start group 1 value= 2 start group 2 and so on. It would be nice to be able to activate them with only one event line. I checked but couldn't make an expression about how to activate groups. A small thing maybe but in rpg making you have a loooot of groups for the battles...well at least i do :-D

Oh #!$%..sorry! In my mind i was in the "fusion 3 current status" thread so you can ignore this haha. Sorry :-D

+1. No reason they shouldn't be named.

I also wish we could name the Array indexes, because I keep a lot of data in them just as a sort of value table. Un-named they're pretty tedious to remember and I usually keep a notepad with all the names. That's probably a lot more unrealistic than this request though! :P

I currently do the same as you casleziro, with notepad files ^
(and do exactly the same for flags XD)

I'm sure you already know Named Variable Object and Associative Array
(and the downside they're slower than standard arrays and windows only...)
but just in case you didn't step in them, or someother could benefit from their existence...
well, they exist and work with named keys X)
Pretty handy, indeed!