How do you disable all flags at one time?

[mobichan]

I was wondering what you would put in the expression editor for turning a series of flags OFF. I actually want to turn all 32 of them off with one action, since it is cumbersome and cluttered to have 32 separate actions. With Animations, you can evaluate the animation number with greater, less than, etc. I can't seem to figure out how to do the same thing with flags.

Any ideas?

[Angelfox]

just put all of the flags into one group of events and turn them off from there

when u are done close the group and it wont be cluttered

[mobichan]

I need to turn multiple flags to an OFF state as an action. Groups won't help me there.

[Nick]

Run a loop, and in the loop turn flag loopindex("loopname") off. Then all the flags the loop is run for get turned off!

[mobichan]

Thanks. That just might do it. But can anyone think of a way to do this from the expression editor? I really don't want to resort to a few extra lines of code, since I need to set this sort of thing up alot throughout my code.

[Jeff]

Just call the fastloop you built again.
Reuse it no need to make a new loop.

[Nick]

Just call the fastloop you built again.
Reuse it no need to make a new loop.

I think he means there are numerous different objects which need their flags turning off. In which case personally i would just put all the 'turning off loops' in one group and make one loop for each object. Unless there are loads of them, in which case i'd give them a qualifier and reference the right one with an alterable value.

[mobichan]

I think I can get by with the fastloop method. I was just hoping to be able to use a greater/less than/equal type of expression. It would just be easier to integrate that into my existing actions. Like I said, I am able to that with animation indices and was just hoping I could do something similar. Maybe it will be added into a future version of MMF.

Thanks again,

Mobichan