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["Internal compiler error: table overflow"]

Mid-way through a productive work session on a project that is [quite painfully] near completion, I encountered a hitch when attempting to compile a build for beta test purposes.

"Internal compiler error: table overflow"

This error is perhaps related to the difficulties explored in the following thread:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=34580.0

However - it differs in these ways.
I'm using AGS 3.1.2 (Wasn't there a fix in 3.0.1 that addressed a table overflow in the Global Script? Is this related?)

Also, the last word on this error was from CJ himself, advising

"to create a script module and move some of your code into that,"

which I was quick to do. Still,  the error persists.

All of the global variables are implemented using the Global Variables Pane, and they number about 500-600. Am I pushing it?

Many other local variable symbols are used liberally throughout the code, but in ways that I've assumed are safe.

//==== Bottom Line: ===== //
1. Is there a concrete limit on variable symbols in AGS? If so - I don't think I'd be even coming close to it, without faulty scripting.

2. What manner of faulty scripting could cause a "Table Overflow" anyway?

2. Oh my god help. This project is almost done - if I have to bin the project, I'm disappearing into the woods forever.

[contents]

(After studying previous forum posts regarding this dilemma, it seems to become apparent that this question merits a new topic)

What I'm attempting to accomplish is a function which searches through the contents of a list box to see if a string of text exists there, or not. The ideal function would accommodate the list box's total item number changing.

For example, if the player has Goo in his inventory, the function (located in repeatedly_execute) would update the list box with an entry called "Goo Listbox Text." I've used the term contents in the code below:

Code: ags

function repeatedly_execute() 
{

   if (player.InventoryQuantity[Goo.ID] != 0){         // PLAYER'S GOT THE GOO.
       if (listbox.contents != ("Goo Listbox Text"))  // NO GOO ENTRY IN LIST BOX?
       listbox.AddItem("Goo Listbox Text");}         // ADD LISTBOX ENTRY
   }

}

...so right now, uhh... I'm stumped.

I've tried a few approaches which result in the "INVALID INDEX NUMBER" error, and others which depend on the  listbox.ItemCount remaining the same (so I can check each slot, numerically) - but as I mentioned earlier, the total number of items in the list box changes, so checking via "listbox.items#" won't work, since the index number needs to accommodate a variable total.

Is there, perhaps, a way to convert a list box's contents to a series of strings, which can be checked? ...this is all so daunting.

Here's another example, which I've tried. It results in the game hanging - eternal loop style - and I get the error: "Script appears to be hung in GlobalScript etc"

Code: ags

int TotalNumber;

while (TotalNumber == Listbox.ItemCount -1) {
 if ((Listbox.Items[TotalNumber] != "Goo Listbox Text")  &&  (player.InventoryQuantity[Goo.ID] !=0 ))
   {Menu.AddItem("Goo Listbox Text");}
 else {}
}

I'm absolutely sure there's a head-slappingly simple way of reaching a solution, so come on, you dogs. You have full permission to make me look like an incapable dunce.

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