Code Organization

Hey Construct Community,

Do you have any tips or methods to organizing your code?

I use comments to separate each section, but my event sheet is getting quite large.

Do the developers of Construct plan on adding a folder option to store multiple events and minimize for efficiency? I know MMF2 uses "Groups" to condense the code.

Thanks.

I usually have a "main" event sheet with no events. Then for each category of events (player controls, enemy AI, coins, etc.) I have a seperate event sheet which I include in the main one.

Inside each event sheet I then have groups for each part of that category. So if I'm making a platform game, I'd have my main event sheet which includes the Controls event sheet. Then inside the Controls one, I have a group called general for simulating movement. I also have another group called Wall Jump for that.

I find this to be the best way for me to organize my event sheets, and keeping it easy to find stuff.

umm... Construct 2 has groups! right-click the event sheet, and click 'add group'.

EncryptedCow A lot of work, but I'm sure it's worth the effort to be very organized!

sqiddster You are awesome, you just saved me many headaches. Didn't even see the groups option!

It might be a hassle to do that with already unorganized events. But starting something new, it's not much more effort to do it.

I like to use comments in other ways too. I use them to add notes and reminders, to mark temporary experiments that I might want to delete later, to remind me what variables are such as 1=yes or whatever. I might use them as a partial "to do" list so if I stop a project at night, I can come back to it and see what I was doing. I basically use them to help me keep a mental note of what each piece of code does so I can quickly scan things.

The main goal with any project with lots of events is to make it as easy as possible to fix bugs or find what I need. It's hard enough fixing a bug in the first place. If it's buried somewhere, it can be even harder to fix.

Very valuable insight.

I often write down my to-do lists, but writing them in comments will save me a lot of paper.

I just put everything in groups, which certainly helps organise my mind when I'm working on a specific aspect of a project. I rarely use comments but I probably should :P

The other benefit of using groups is that you can deactivate them in your logic which helps add more modular functionality. When I have behaviors or events that should not be able to run at the same time I disable the group they are in until they should be used again.

Didn't know you could disable whole groups. Construct 2 is most powerful indeed.