SOLVED Can I pass arguments to user events?

[ryu]

I want to pass an argument when calling from another object, is that possible?

 

[samspade]

You can't. Not really. If you know with certainty that the user event will go next, you could pass them to globals and use the globals in the event:

//some code
global.temp_1 = some_value;
global.temp_2 = random_num;
user_event(0);


//user event
if (global.temp_1) {
    another_value = global.temp_2;
}

But in 2.3 you can pass arguments to custom functions so while there are still a few times user events kind of work, I don't use them much anymore.

 

[ryu]

Thank you　samspade。

 

[Yal]

User events has the advantage of not needing to exist for code calling them to compile, so if some code only needs to happen for some objects in a hierarchy, they're useful to cut down on boilerplate code.

 

[Nidoking]

I still find them much simpler for the "function inheritance" style model because you can use event_inherited to call the parent event directly instead of having to worry about what name a function has at each level of the hierarchy or finding temporary names for functions or rewriting the functions at each level.