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Newcomers AppGameKit Corner / Visual Editor: anyway to see spriteID directly without (re)creating data.agkd?

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AdamRyan
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Posted: 15th Jan 2018 14:07
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Just for ease of workflow I would like to see the spriteID 10000xx value while i work in the VisualEditor, is this possible?

In case I can't....
I also know that all VE created sprites have a 100000 base start, and that naming conventions are Sprite 0, Sprite 1, Sprite 2 etc

So can I always trust calculating the spriteID from the original sprite name? Eg Sprite 19 has spriteID 1000020,

Let me know if I havent been clear!
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Posted: 15th Jan 2018 15:16
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Quote: "So can I always trust calculating the spriteID from the original sprite name?"


I would absolutely NOT do that. When a sprite is created, it returns the ID of that sprite. Just store it in an array if need be.
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Thanks, just to clarify, in what circumstances does the visual editor not give spriteName = "sprite 25" the spriteID = 1000024?
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Posted: 17th Jan 2018 17:12 Edited at: 17th Jan 2018 17:14
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Quote: "in what circumstances does the visual editor not give spriteName = "sprite 25" the spriteID = 1000024"

In the case you create or delete a sprite yourself.
But even if you go fully with VE and don't create sprites manually, I recommend you to not abuse the sprite name to retrieve the SpriteID.
Isn't there a command that returns the ID if you pass the sprite name as parameter ?
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Quote: "Isn't there a command that returns the ID if you pass the sprite name as parameter ?"

yes
ID = VisualEditor_GetID("name",scene_number)
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Thanks guys!

I am writing an automatic code producer via a web app, so i can assign functions to sprites (eg interactions with boundaries, sprite changes on various interactions etc) the record types and clones get created automatically and the code is cutnpaste from html output. However the spriteID (essential as record field) is NOT visible in the VE and requires me to actually run AppGameKit to see it!
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Posted: 18th Jan 2018 10:07 Edited at: 18th Jan 2018 10:10
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i would assume this is because you don't create the sprite until you run AppGameKit so there is no actual ID to return yet - you could create your own sprites in between the loading of the editor scene and cause the count to start at a higher number than expected etc.

also if you delete a sprite in the VE it won't fill the gap when you create the next sprite, the new name will be the next one in the list - so if you were up to say 65 sprite and deleted sprite 40, when you place another sprite it will be sprite 65 (40 will now be non-existent).
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Posted: 19th Jan 2018 11:05 Edited at: 19th Jan 2018 11:07
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Thanks smallg! I'll have a look at that!

Just for completeness if anyone else is going to procedurally generate code and needs an as of yet uncreated spriteID... my work around is to....

...write a debugging production function that loops through all VisEd_sprites and cross references the name with the generated recordType spritesType.spriteName and where matching check both have same spriteID (as per their system of spritename no => 10000x). Then if gets out of sync I manually fix....
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