help with families and instance variable

Hi guys,

I am facing a problem with instance variable, with families. Basically I have a bunch of sprites, and each of them will inherit a family variable, in this case, Health.

What I want to do is then for each instance of the sprite under this family, I would like to customize their health variable, then add them ALL into another family variable called Totalhealth.

For some reason I can't do this without specifically doing it one by one. Is there a smarter way to do this?

I have provided a screenshot as well as the capx.

Thanks alot!

<img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/Velsthinez/privateVariable.jpg" border="0">

https://www.dropbox.com/s/liwaob2e8w9xwni/privateVariable.capx

Not sure why this thread hasn't been replied to

it seems pretty simple..

"TotalHealth" sounds like it should be a Global Variable, as it won't actually differ between any of the instances...

+every tick

     ->set TotalHealth to 0

+For each Family1

     ->Add Family1.Health to TotalHealth

This should work.

keepee: thanks alot for the suggestion! I actually tried that, but it seems to go into an infinite loop and kept adding to it continously.

You must have missed something..

It won't keep adding if it gets reset back to 0 at the start of each tick.

I tried it exactly as Keepee said and it worked perfect.

Yeah it worked! Definitely a mistake on my side.

The text was supposed to sit AFTER these two events, if not I'll get the infinite loop.

Thanks alot! This will be a great timesaver!

One perhaps stupid question, why is this bit at the first needed?

-> every tick

   ->set totalHealth to 0

It seems like if it' not there, the value will do infinite loop. Wasn't the static variable implemented and were meant for this?

You could make 'totalHealth' a local variable and it would be reset each tick. A static variable keeps it's value.

ramones: Thanks for the suggestion! After messing around with it, I finally managed to get the local variables to be static!

Thanks a lot everyone!