No, sorry. This is not a release. I was wondering how many people would find an extension that could put objects into a (non-mmf, but ext. based) qualifier-type group during run-time? I'm making that, so... yeah. any comments?
No, sorry. This is not a release. I was wondering how many people would find an extension that could put objects into a (non-mmf, but ext. based) qualifier-type group during run-time? I'm making that, so... yeah. any comments?
Dynasoft had made the Object Group extension on MMF 1.5
I'm still waiting for it to be ported to MMF2. It's very usefull, and somtimes necessairy.
You should PM him about it.
Ok. what all did the object do?
Sorry, I read your post very quick. So I thought that you were looking for such an extension.
Well it would be cool If you could make one because I really need such a thing for one of my projects.
The way that the Object Group extension worked, was that you could put selected object INSTANCES into a numbered group. It was a bit like saving a selection set.
Then you could reselect those object instances simply by specifying the group ID and picking an object type. The condition was true if some instances of the picked object type were part of the specified group, and then those instances were reselected again for the actions.
You could also append or remove object from a group.
The only thing missing was getting the number of instances that were part of a group.
You should read those threads from the old forum:
http://www.clickteam.com/CTforum/showflat.php3?Cat=&Board=study&Number=2689 68
http://www.clickteam.com/CTforum/showflat.php3?Cat=&Board=study&Number=2696 18
There's even the source code in there.
The only thing missing was group population return? That's the main thing in my EXT! Is there anything else that I should/could include, like extras or something? Any oyher features that you want?
It would be cool to have those working with both group name and group ID numbers. But I’m not sure how it would best work if some groups have the same name. If you’d rather go with just names or just ID numbers, then we would need expressions to convert a group name to a group ID and vis versa.
Those conditions would have to select the object instances for the actions of the event.
- Condition; Is a picked object is part of any of the group?
- Condition; Is a picked object part of no groups?
- Condition; Is a picked object is part of a given group?
- Condition if a picked object is part of a given group?
Those actions would have to affect only instances of objects selected by the conditions of the event.
- Set name to a group, specifying a string name and a group ID number.
- Add selected instances to a group.
- Remove selected instances to a group.
- Toggle selected instance membership to a group.
- An action to clear a given group, and one to clear all groups.
- An action to clear a given group of members that have been deleted, and one to do the same for all groups.
- An expression that returns how many instances are member of a group.
- An expression that returns a string of all the fixed values part of a given group, separated by commas. (“131073,152268,102513”)
- An expression that returns the fixed value of an instance by giving the group ID and the index number. (If the group members are stored in some kind of internal list?)
- An expression that returns how many groups an instance is member of, specifying the fixed value of an object.
- An expression that returns a string of all the group IDs that an instance is member of, specifying the fixed value of an object. (“1,5,12,20”)
- An expression that returns a string of all the group Names that an instance is member of, specifying the fixed value of an object. (“tagged,cursed,ready,asleep”)
- An expression that returns the string name of a group, by specifying an Integer.
- An expression that returns the Integer ID of a group, by specifying the string name.
Thats everything I can think of <img src="/center/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Great! Umm, did I tell you that i'm making CICK for MMF2SDK? As soon as I'm done, I'll make the extension. If you want to help me with CICK, let me know.
Not sure how CICK works. But I could test the extenstion for you.
Cool! I'll need your email, though. I'll email you a beta of CICK2 and eventually a beta of the extension. P.M. me.
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