How do I pin an object to a specific UID?

Hello Construct forums,

I have been making a game in which enemies carry weapons, and I have stumbled across a bit of an issue.

I have tried making code which spawns in a weapon for each enemy, assigns the object a variable which contains the UID of the enemy, and then locates and pins the object to said UID, but it doesn't seem to work.

Any help would be appreciated.

lionz is right

However, there are cases where you might want to do it the way you're doing it

The reason it's not working is because the "On Created" is triggering as soon as the Pistol is spawned, but before the pistol has been assigned an ID

the "On Created" trigger will activate as soon as an object is created, run the actions in this event, and then Construct will go back to where it left off

This isn't the case inside Functions. Inside functions, outside triggers will only be activated after the entire function has run. So you could put the pistol spawning and ID setting behavior inside a function, and it should work

The other way to deal with this is to put a "wait 0 seconds" as the first action in the second group of events. "Wait 0 seconds" waits until the next tick. So The pistol will be created, the "On Created" trigger will be activated, but then it will wait for 1 full tick before running the pin action, which will give the first group of events time to set the ID