How do I Pick By UID?

In the documentation about objects (here: construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/plugin-reference/common-features/common-conditions), under COMMON CONDITIONS, PICK, it says "pick by UID".

How do I actually do that without knowing which object it is?

Can't the System object just do a generic Pick By UID?

-john

You need to know the object type so you can apply the proper actions to it. Why don't you know what object it is ?

I'm trying to write a bunch of functions that can operate generically on objects.

We can only pass Numbers and Strings to functions, so I was using the UID to emulate a pass-by-reference function call.

It's seems like a simple enough idea: Pick the object by it's UID, and do what you need to do to it, but needing to know the "kind" of object it is means I need to implement this same function a bunch of times.

Yes, that's what I'm currently doing...

I was just hoping that I could do it globally, in a single manner, using the System somehow.

I keep wanting to make "re-usable" functions and layouts.

The problem with a lot of the construct built-in stuff is that it's object name dependent... even if I move the problem out to families, I can't import the function I wrote because a family by that name doesn't exist.

Yes, I can get around it by creating the family and trying to keep track of what names need to exist where, but this seems like a lot of non-productive work.

Generally, I like the tool, and a lot of what's been added to support javascript directly is wonderful.

Code re-use is still too hard.

That's just how Construct works so I can't see a way around it, you pick instances of an object and apply actions to those instances.

Maybe this would be of use, but it is paid:

construct.net/en/game-assets/addons/uid-anything-3723

Jase00,

That's exactly what I'm looking for!

Thanks for this!

-john