Is your layout pointing to the correct event sheet?

We have a winner here. The embarrassment is real.

I did not even notice this, I assumed the event sheet created while making the layout would be linked automatically. At least I recall creating the sheets with layouts.

Thank you very much to both of you for spending time on this.

There is nothing regarding these sprites besides this, there is only a title screen before this, and these sprites are not even on it. And the mouse click basically just reloads the menu screen at this point.

Thank you for the reply. I have taken a screenshot of the eventsheet in question.

There are five sprites supposed to be on the screen and arranged by the event. In their properties they are manually arranged in the center orizontally and spaced out vertically.

This event supposedly placing them in the top corner, and one in a random place does nothing when I run the project. They are all still in their manually set places.

For the life of me I just cannot get this to work.

After dragging the sprites to the layout and specifying the correct layer for them, I tried to set an event in the event sheet to set the sprites in their correct positions:

System event, on start of layout, sprite_X, set position to (X,Y)

But it does nothing, the sprite stays firmly in the place that is in its common properties.

What am I not getting here? Clearly I'm an absolute beginner, so please be gentle.

Obviously I also missed the Beginner's Questions section of this forum, where I should have posted this. First impressions, and all..