Does recursion work?

[Durnus]

Well... I've been using the file extention and tree extention to create a selective file backup app for someone. But now I've hit something, and can't figure out what my app is doing anymore. I have some simple recursion in the app right now, so maybe recursion just doesn't work in MMF2?

If you know, please answer. This isn't urgent, but I'd like to know if recursion works before I try to fix my program even though I'm trying to use something that doesn't exist.

(Recursion is using the same loop inside of a loop, for example calling "fastloop1" in a "fastloop1" trigger.)

Thanks for any help.

[stAtrill]

Not sure if it works, i always used the 'Set loop index' command to simulate a loop starting over. Try that and see if it works.

[neat_Kliker2]

recursive object for MMF 1.5 ;p

[Joshtek]

Loop A can trigger Loop B.
Loop A can set the loop index of Loop A.
Loop A cannot trigger Loop A.
Loop A cannot trigger Loop B which in turn triggers Loop A.

If you try then the MMF2 runtime will close itself. Or, in the case of the Fastloop Object, it will forget the initial loop in favour of the new loop.

[Durnus]

From my experiance, because I just tried to make a recursive loop, it does not close the app, just doesn't continue the encompassing loop. (When not using the fastloop object, just the built in loops.)

I'll try stAtrill's method, and hope it works.

EDIT: Doesn't work like I would think, so I'll have to make up a method that doesn't use recursion. I only wish it was easier to program extentions for MMF2 (or somehow my view on LUA changes... right now I think it's horrible, I hate basic) otherwise I would be all over it.