spawning with physics enabled

hey guys

im having trouble figuring out how the spawn new object action works whith physics enabled....

1st, if your spawning a new instance, you need an instance of the object already somewhere on the layout but can bee off screen, correct? how do you keep that instance that is hidden off screen from falling if you want the new one that spawns to fall?

thanks

Dan

The one that is off screen you can destroy on start of layout!

Or you can add the "Destroy outside layout" behavior to it, works every time

I usually have a seperate layout called objectdump where I place any objects that would normally be left off screen

thanks guys...that worked...but now I have a second question

I want the player to only be able to spawn a new instance when there isn't not one already on the screen...the object has to leave before a new one can be spawned...

I have an event that looks like:

keyboard - on space is pressed | Spawnerobject | Spawn Sprite1

Sprite1 - X is on-screen

its simple enough but isn't working.

any ideas?

thanks