Loop Limitations?

[Archtype]

I'm creating a grid using loops. the grid is made up of 40x40 active objects that are 20x20pixels in dimension.

Button Generate clicked
Start loop "rowndown" 40 times

On loop "rowndown"
Start loop "row" 40 times

On loop "row"
Create Tile at (0,0)layer 1
Tile : Set X position to Loopindex("row")*20+10
Tile : Set Y position to Loopindex("rowdown")*20+10

This should result in 1600 active objects in a grid

The loop seems to work fine when i create less that 465 objects

any more than 465 and it creates 465 all in one space (even tho it should be creating 1600)

there is no other code.

WTF? loop limitation? or just bad code?

[Jeff]

check the frames properties for the number of objects it is allowing. By default its set at 500

This is under the runtime options for the frame.

[Pixelthief]

There are indeed loop limitations but they are so astronomically high that you will generally not encounter them (limits on # of loops in 1 go and loop recursion depth). As Jeff said, you exceeded the maximum # of objects allowed in your frame editor. You can set that as high as 20,000.

The reason why all objects are being created in one place is because of how the object scoping works with the create object event. When the create object event executes, all further code that refers to that kind of object will be scoped to the newly created objects- ignoring the rest. But when the create object event fails, that scoping will never occur- all events further down in that line of code will apply to *all* of your objects.



So btw, for MMF2 updates and MMF3, object creation should descope an object class if its resolution fails and the object limit should be default be set to the highest value (is there any drawback?)!

[Archtype]

Thanks guys thats brilliant.

I knew MMF could handle way more than 500ish objects but i didnt know you had to set the amount!! hehe

Thanks for taking the time to explain why they created in one spot pixeltheif. Object scoping is something i evidently need to read up on.