Hi! After reloading my save for whatever reason my While Loop is now broken.

[Please read reply to see how fixed, compare both images for context]

Oddly my While Loop was functioning completely fine. After reopening my session it's acting as though it never worked.

I have a debug to show whether my conditions are true or not and if incrementing is occurring. Before closing my session, I can see it was incrementing every second. Even when the whole phase restarts, the event loops as I thought it should.

After reopening the project the debug text shows incrementation is only going up by 1 and stays at 1 unless I restart the layout preview.

What I tried:

My backup is unfortunately 10-15 minutes older than the main project save so I'm missing information compared to the most recent one. I remember clearly saving before closing. In theory this loop should be the same as when it was working completely fin. Unless there was a save problem (couldn't find forum posts about project saves missing information).

After reading several Loop forum posts and documentation I'm stuck figuring out what's wrong with this loop. Knowing that Loops can be tricky, is there anything I should try here?

lionz I'm super grateful you were patient with me. I did not realize it was that simple. Just like you said, 1 condition and 2 actions.

I wasn't aware if you hover over a family that it still recognizes the child of that family individually. So on my debug it showed the individual position of each family member I was hovering over.

Your suggestion to put a variable on the family and name individually for the sprites worked beautifully also.

I should probably review the manual on families and see if there's any mention of recognizing the individuals inside the family separately.

Edit (for those in the future confused like I was): After reviewing the family manual, it's clear I didn't understand the concept, I thought it would apply effects to all members at the same time rather than apply effects when triggers take place. So that's a good lesson for myself. I confused Families for Containers.

If it's 50 instances of the same object then it is mouse over object. If it is 50 different objects then you put them in a Family and say 'mouse over Family'. The text required would be set text to family.variable, so the instance variable is at the family level for text. Either way you just need one event only for everything, with 2 actions - set position of text object to sprite/family, and text object set text to object/family.var

It is indeed 50 different objects. Edit*: And the tooltip is to show up only on the sprite that's being hovered over.

Thank you for clarifying, since I'm a beginner I've only understood the part where mouse hovers over a family but kind of lost how an instance variable would help the actions determine which sprite it should be over. There's a lot of factors that makes me lose the train of thought.

If it's not consuming to replicate as an example, could I ask you to show an image so I can understand the concept please? I tried to mess around with variables for the family but I can't seem to figure out what you're conveying.

Hi! I have a page with many sprite boxes, whenever I hover over one of these sprite boxes the appropriate text appears.

I can do this by creating the text and then destroying it every time I hover or simply fadein fadeout every hover.

My issue is too many sprite boxes that require their own text and this is making event overhead a bit much!

I can't think of a way to simplify the events. I tried using a family but that triggers it for everything in the family obviously. If you have any ideas please do throw them at me!

This is what I have as an example for hovering over a single sprite.