Choose script file to run from Event sheet

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- shinkan
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Hey, like the topic says. I have two script files

"Gun.js" with
function show() { alert("Gun"); }

inside and "Laser.js" containing

function show() { alert("Laser"); }

and in Event sheet there's just a

Button: On Click -> show()

Pressing a button at runtime will always fire "Gun.js" probably because of the alphabetic list order.

How can I make it to run specific script file

So when I press Button1 - run show() from "Gun.js"

and when I press Button2 - run show() from "Laser.js"

I'm aware that my functions naming is bad and making it for example showGun() and showLaser() will solve all of my problems but I think that's an interesting question to ask. Imagine having a lot of long scripts and having bugs just because you forgot and make couple of functions with same name.
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- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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JavaScript doesn't work like that. The second function overwrites the first one so it is no longer available. You need to give the functions different names.
- piranha305
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you can also wrap each of your functions in a class
class gun { constructor() {} show() { alert("gun"); } }

class laser { constructor() {} show() { alert("laser"); } }

then you would need to create instances of each of those classes

const gunInst = new gun(); const laserInst = new laser();

then on your button click you can do

gunInst.show();

here is very simple example project

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gRdrem2-PwTqx1QNsBFpGwtP3iyfwFIh
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- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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Another approach is to use objects like namespaces, e.g. in Gun.js:
const Gun = { show() { alert("Gun"); } };

and in Laser.js:

const Laser = { show() { alert("Laser"); } };

Now you can call Gun.show() or Laser.show(). If each file puts everything in to the same "namespace" (really just a named object), then you have a way to distinguish functions, variables etc. with the same name.