indestructible strings?!?!?!

[Skeets]

I have a string.

Upon pressing "5" -> destroy string

when I press 5, the string merely flickers, but remains there! why would this happen?

[Skyhunter]

Try unchecking display as background in string properties.

[Skeets]

It was already unchecked, and checking it doesn't help either.... I'm really confused as to why it won't destroy, generally they do....

[Skeets]

Ok, I figured it out. Turns out, if you make a string visible, then it recreates itself if it was destroyed.

[DavidN]

I remember something like this - that the last instance of a string on the playfield isn't truly destroyed. It's some relic that was necessary in the very early days that's survived.

[Pixelthief]

String objects should really be rebuilt from the ground up in MMF3. They are extremely hard to instance, have really questionable functions ("flash object?"), and have a whole boatload of glitches. They are very hard to delete. Try closing MMF2 and reopening it after deleting every instance and create object event for your string.