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Newcomers AppGameKit Corner / [SOLVED] No ID required for image/sprite?

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Wolfsong73
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Posted: 23rd Mar 2021 12:23 Edited at: 23rd Mar 2021 12:24
Hi all,

So, following some advice I've seen in a few places, I've decided to look through code from other games made with AGK. Some of it has been helpful. However, some of it is raising new questions/confusion.

In particular, I'm looking at the code for "SantasBadElf", a game/code that came with the bundle I purchased. Specifically, it's in the "main_menu.agc" file.

g_iBackground = CreateSprite ( LoadImage ( "main_menu.jpg" ) )
g_iInstructions = CreateSprite ( LoadImage ( "instructions.jpg" ) )


I understand what this code is doing, it's creating a sprite and assigning its image in one statement, instead of two. That's neat.
What I'm confused on, though, is that every other tutorial I've seen indicates that an ID has to be assigned to each image and sprite, as that's how they're referenced by other commands. I'm assuming in this case, the background and instructions can/would be called by their respective variable name... And that, too, makes sense. Actually, assigning IDs to each image/sprite is something I hadn't seen before AGK.

So.. my questions are:
Are IDs optional for Sprites/Images? Are they situational?
Why are they not assigned in this case?

Thanks!

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Heavens
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Posted: 23rd Mar 2021 12:52
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This is the best way to manage resource ID's in my opinion, let AppGameKit do it for you.

Most Create functions (CreateSprite, CreateText...) have two versions one where you can tell it what resource number to use and then the other as above returns an integer that will be above 100,000 and is guaranteed to be unique (as long as you don't manually create an ID over 100,000)

Then for the rest of your code you don't have to care what resource number is assigned to what sprite you can just call g_iInstructions or g_iBackground or what ever you called the variable.

In the code if you put Print(g_iInstructions) or print(g_iBackground) you would see the number AppGameKit is using.

I never use the manual method.
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Posted: 23rd Mar 2021 12:59
Quote: "Are IDs optional for Sprites/Images? Are they situational?
Why are they not assigned in this case?"

ID's are considered optional but if you plan on referencing them (ever) again, you'll need an ID to do that.
as far as assigning them manually or automatically, it's a personal preference.
while i believe most let AppGameKit assign the IDs (which, in theory, eliminates the chances of accidentally duplicating IDs, for example), some do prefer to do it themselves.
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Posted: 23rd Mar 2021 14:49
@Heavens

Thank you for that explanation!

I think I prefer that approach, too. Give them meaningfully named variables, and let the language do the ID stuff.

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