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[Sydious]

is this able to be done?

global.name[0] = blah,blah??

a global array?

[FoxInABox]

yes, it is possible

EDIT: .. you know .. you could just have tried

Edited by FoxInABox, 20 December 2009 - 10:42 PM.

[Sydious]

yes, it is possible

thx. didn't want to takle my idea before I knew if this was correct.

[Sydious]

I was successful with global.name[0]

I can't seem to get globalvar name[0] to work. Is that not possible or am I setting it up wrong?

[jabelar]

I was successful with global.name[0]

I can't seem to get globalvar name[0] to work. Is that not possible or am I setting it up wrong?

With the globalvar you should just put the name of the array, not the [0] part. So I think the following should work, even if name is supposed to be an array:

globalvar name;

The reason it works is that Game Maker is very tolerant of variable declarations and so a variable without an index can be used with an index later. In fact you can use name as equivalent to name[0] after you have been using it as an array.

Anyway, you don't have to do anything to say that it is an array when using the globalvar or var statement.

Edited by jabelar, 21 December 2009 - 07:13 PM.

[Sydious]

I was successful with global.name[0]

I can't seem to get globalvar name[0] to work. Is that not possible or am I setting it up wrong?

With the globalvar you should just put the name of the array, not the [0] part. So I think the following should work, even if name is supposed to be an array:

globalvar name;

The reason it works is that Game Maker is very tolerant of variable declarations and so a variable without an index can be used with an index later. In fact you can use name as equivalent to name[0] after you have been using it as an array.

Anyway, you don't have to do anything to say that it is an array when using the globalvar or var statement.

Great. Thanks for your help.