Solved - How do I check the name of an object inside a family?

I have a Tower Defense game and a family of objects called "Icons" (there are 5 different tower icons inside this family).

The "Icons" family has the behavior DragDrop on it.

When I drag an object in this family, I need to kick off an event and that event needs to know which of the 5 tower types I am dragging, so I can place the correct TowerType at the drop location.

In pseudocode, if these conditions are met:

Icons -> On DragDrop

Icons.ObjectType = "Tower1-Icon"

Then is should do this action:

Icons Spawn Tower1

The problem is that second condition "Icons.ObjectType" doesn't seem to exist.

When I have the "Icons" family selected, how do I know which of the objects inside it I am actually working with - what is the test for this?

It think you are looking for ObjectTypeName

ObjectTypeName

The name of the object type for the given object. For example Sprite.ObjectTypeName will return "Sprite". When used as a family expression, this returns the name of the actual object type, never the name of the family itself.

https://www.construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/plugin-reference/common-features/common-expressions

It think you are looking for ObjectTypeName

That is what I want to get, but it doesn't seem to exist as an option for a Family.

When I go to add the condition and I select "Icons" (which is my family), there is no option after that for any ObjectTypeName.

Not sure if this is the best solution, but I created an Instance Variable for the family "Icons"and filled it with the Tower Name for each Icon. Then I was able to reference that Instance Variable in the condition.

It works, it just feels like an unnecessary trick, and I can't figure out a better way to do it.

ObjectTypeName is an expression. You need to use a condition like "System Compare Two Values" to check it:

Compare Two Values Family.ObjectTypeName="SpriteName"

Make sure to pick the family instance first.

That didi it! Thank you so much!