[BUG] Renaming objects messes up global actions

[Sieg]

An object gets cloned when you rename it and messes up global actions.


Here is how to reproduce the bug:
- New empty app
- Insert an active object
- Go to global events and add this:
Start of frame -> create obj("active") at (0,0)
- Now right-click the active in the objectexplorer and select rename
- Rename it to whatever

Now hover your mouse over the action you created. You will see that the object is still named "active" in the global action.

Now don't delete it, but add another create obj action on top of it. In the object picker you will see "active" and also an "import tab" which alows you to pick the newly named version.
So you can pick between 2 objects which are actually the same.
This has caused all sorts of problems in my games.

Please try to fix this, thanks

[ClickerGuy]

I didn't think this was a bug, I just try to name the objects consistantly before I enter the global event area at all!

But if there was a way that the global event viewer would pick up the updated name, that woul dbe very cool!

[Sieg]

I do think it is a bug, it certainly is no feature!
Makes no sense to me at all.

Let's see what the clickteam says ok

[DistantJ]

Nah, this is the way global events and behaviors work, it's based on names.

The idea is then you could feature it in another frame, with a different object using the same name, so that it will behave the same. I've used it to my advantage a number of times. Just name your objects before you make your global events and if they get messed up, just use "replace with another object".

[Sieg]

That's what qualifiers are for... I really don't see the point of this.. it seems to do more harm then good.
Replace by another object only works for actions in that object's column.
I use this 'messed up' object in an expression in an action of a clickteam movement object. There's no easy way to replace those. And even after have 'fixed' the expression, all kinds of weird things still happen. (app slows down to 6 fps).

Im telling you, something fishy is going on here!

[Yves]

DJ & CG are right, I think it's how the global event editor works and it seems difficult to change it. If an object with this name is used in several frames and you want to rename it in a frame without renaming it in the other frames, the global event must not be updated.

Ideally we should check if this name is used in several frames and in the global events, and if so ask you if you want to change it [x] in this frame only, [x] in all the frames, [x] and/or in the global events.

I'll add this to the wish list.

[Sieg]

Alright, that would work for me, thanks Yves.