Unsolvable issue?

[King_Cool]

Hi, i have encountered a problem i have encountered many times in the past. I will simplefy the problem by an example

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3537859/ManBurger.mfa
( hold mouse pointer over a Man, and press 1, 2, 3 or 4 to changethe ID_ value )

What i basically want to do is to be able to Pin, or assosiate, an instance of an object( for example Active ) with an instance of another object ( for example Active ) by comparing ID_ ( values ) rather than creating many different objects.

My idea that this is doable has halted my work many times. Im under the impression that the people on this forum are amongst the most experienced MMF2 users, and so i just want to get some clarefication, or feeback on this.
Is this doable?

[DavidN]

Yes - the easiest way to do this within MMF's object selection is to set up a fastloop to run through each burger/target and to select only the objects that match the loop index.

http://mfa.aquadasoft.com/view/1295280251-dxn-burgers

I haven't commented the events, but I only changed two of them from your original MFA. On each event loop, the fastloop "positionBurgers" is started five times (five instead of four, because the loop index starts at 0, and not 1 like the objects' IDs - this way, it will loop through the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4).

On each loop, the target and burger with the ID matching the index of the fastloop are selected, and the position of the object is changed without touching any of the other objects without matching IDs.

[LB]

It is very doable. You just need to do it a bit differently.
http://mfa.aquadasoft.com/view/1295280464-ManBurger
The ForEach object is basically a more efficient way to do that same thing as matching loop index with an ID, eg using a fastloop to select each object in turn. In this MFA, it was very simple to implement it into your code.

EDIT: DavidN shows the fastloop method.

[DavidN]

Oh, I forgot about ForEach... nice to have options, anyway

[King_Cool]

Thanks guys
Where can i get the ForEach extencion?

[Shawn]

Thanks guys
Where can i get the ForEach extencion?

You can find it in this thread:

http://www.clickteam.com/epicenter/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=200505&Searchpa ge=1&Main=25635&Words=ForEach&Search=true#Post2005 05