TIP: A Brilliant and Simple way to disable rules for debugging

synthesis

If you are as frustrated as I was before discovering this in trying to isolate bugs...
Try this...Its simple...

1) Add a Game Attribute Boolean called "DISABLE_THIS_RULE" and set it to "FALSE" (unchecked). I used all caps to find it easily in my game attributes list.

2) Anywhere you wish to temporarily disable a rule...add a condition:
When attribute "DISABLE_THIS_RULE" is "TRUE".

This will force the rule to not run until the attribute is removed and aid dramatically in locating bugs! It will have the same affect as commenting out the code (for you programming compadres out there).

StormyStudio

nice idea....

BeyondtheTech

My bad. I clicked on the wrong voting option. It is helpful. hehehe

Vmlweb

I used this method while eating cheese sandwiches.
It was helpful but what should I vote for?

harrio

what's cookin,

very simple and elegant, good job. though this should be an engine feature. this is a good mainstay. it's actually similar to creating a pause controller...kudos

noodles...

TwistedMech

The way I see it is, why do we have to do this? It's a good work around but gamesalad should have a trace log built in to show the flow of rules processing. The fact that we have to keep pissing about to work out what's wrong when it's a simple 5 minute job for gs developers to add this feature is beyond me. On the one hand it's a good product and on the other, it lacks simple features to help us.

synthesis

Remember...GS is still Beta...workarounds are all we've got!

scorelessmusic

Good tip here! Will implement on new projects, especially those that have ambitious plans.

design219

I like. Thanks for the tip.