Very annoying feature :(

I spent an hour trying to trace a bug today. (Not helped by lack of debugger.)

Of course it was a very bizarre "bug"

It turns out that Deactivating a group "MyGroup" will deactivate all groups of the same name in all event sheets, not just the Event Sheet that does the activation/deactivation.

It really highlights the fact that C2 needs to have some code analytics.

1. Groups with same name

2. unused objects

3. unused variable names

etc etc

Are all the event sheets linked with include?

I remember having a similar issue a long time ago. I came to the conclusion that its much better to be extremely specific when naming groups (especially if you will be working on it for a long time).

You do get used to working without a proper debugger but it would be nice to have I agree.

GenkiGenga

The deactivate works on all event sheets, they don't have to be included. The problem I was having was that one layout was deactivating code belonging to another event sheet.

Check out the Chrome Console plugin for debugging.

It turns out that Deactivating a group "MyGroup" will deactivate all groups of the same name in all event sheets, not just the Event Sheet that does the activation/deactivation.

1: http://www.scirra.com/FORUM/same-group-names-on-different-sheets_topic49258.html?KW=group

2: http://www.scirra.com/FORUM/r80-set-group-activated_topic49634.html?KW=my+fault

I don't find the feature very annoying at all. I'm very grateful for it. I'm rather reliant that the disable/enable group is cross event sheet. Makes a lot of sense. Let's me divy up my groups across sheets rather than cluttering different factors into 1 sheet.

keep in mind that C2 is not an Object based language. It's event and string based. Since Group names are a string and not memory reference then all groups by that string name will be effected.