While object for MMF/Flash?

[Dynasoft]

It depends how many loops you're doing. If you do the classic spread value/loop thing, it actually has to loop through all of the objects up to the loop index every loop to compare the alterable value.

Wouldn't it actually have to loop all the objects, not just "up to the loop index"? MMF doesn't know that only one object matches the loop index, so it tests them all.

I realise I'm telling someone at Clickteam how their own software works, I'll look a fool if I'm wrong...

[RickyRombo]

No you won't. I thought that was strange, too.

[James]

It depends how many loops you're doing. If you do the classic spread value/loop thing, it actually has to loop through all of the objects up to the loop index every loop to compare the alterable value.

Wouldn't it actually have to loop all the objects, not just "up to the loop index"? MMF doesn't know that only one object matches the loop index, so it tests them all.

I realise I'm telling someone at Clickteam how their own software works, I'll look a fool if I'm wrong...

Ah, I guess you must be right. I'm the fool here

That makes the spread/loop thing even slower, then.

EDIT: I corrected my post

[BHGames]

The original behavior might be correct if you can move to the next loop when you find one object that meets the condition.

[James]

That's what I thought originally, but it does need to check all the objects since it doesn't know if there's more than one with the same alterable value, in which case they'd both get selected.