(SOLVED) Variables seem to have stopped working...

[Ali]

I'm sure I must have done something stupid or missed something obvious, but have some variables that aren't behaving.

I can change the variable from 0 to 1 in one room. When I enter any other room it's at 0 again. There is no code anywhere that changes the variable to 0. While I'm still in the room it also shows up as 0 on the status line (which is updated in the global repeatedly_execute) while the character says that it's 1.

This happened with an int variable, so I changed to a bool and it worked. Now I've made a couple more bool varaibles and they're behaving the same way.

I have around 100 Strings, ints and bools in all, have I hit some kind of limit?

I'd appreciate any help you could offer!

[strazer]

Where and how have you defined these variables?

[Ali]

I thought I'd forgotten to mention something!

In the global script header, like this to begin with:

int catStat=0;

Then I wondered if this meant that I was setting the int to 0 ever time a new room script was run, so I changed the troublesome variable to say this in the global header:

int catStat;

And I added this in game_start:

catStat=0;

Which didn't seem to help.

[strazer]

Just as I thought.
If you define variables in the script header, separate variables are created for the global script and each room script. Changing the variable's value from within a room script thus doesn't affect any of the others.

To create a global variable that you can use outside the global script, you have to define it in the global script, export it and then import it into the script header:

Code: ags

// global script

int catStat;
export catStat;

Code: ags

// main script header

import int catStat;

[Ali]

Thanks Strazer! I guess when my way seemed to work it didn't depend upon variables being altered in more than one room.

[strazer]

You're welcome!