instance_activate_object works only for leaves [u571]

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instance_activate_object works only for leaves [u571] #252

Closed EnigmaBot closed 11 years ago

EnigmaBot commented 11 years ago

(Posted by on the ENIGMA forums)

If you have an hierarchy of objects and you deactivate the parents, it's not possible to activate again the parents, only the childs. This is not the case in GM.

EnigmaBot commented 11 years ago

(Posted by on the ENIGMA forums)

Is it possible to modify the issue title ? I wanted to write '...works only for leaves'

RobertBColton commented 11 years ago

Thats not the issue, even inheritance and parenting is not added until the new compiler is complete.

JoshDreamland commented 11 years ago

That has nothing to do with the new compiler; it's to do with the fucked up way in which TGMG hacked instance deactivation in. I'll deal with it after everything else is out of the way. I want the main instance system to be instantiable so we can add threading in relatively simply. When that's done, deactivated instances will just be a dead thread.

And no, there's no way to edit the title. Not even I can do that.

polygoned commented 11 years ago

added to https://github.com/enigma-dev/enigma-dev/issues/427

RobertBColton commented 6 years ago

I've checked this off of #427 because it is no longer reproducible on the current master.

I created the following test GMK in GM8: instance_activate_child_test.zip

Spacebar: instance_deactivate_object(object1) deactivates the parent (which does not exist)
Enter: instance_activate_object(object2) activates the instances which are children of object1 and do exist
0: instance_activate_object(100001) activates a single instance of object2

The project behaves the same in GM8 and ENIGMA on current master. There were further no exceptions running it in gdb with debug symbols and the game process exited normally. So it looks like this one does not exist anymore.

This was possibly fixed by #898