Gamesalad not working and scene deleted.

blue_elephant

So I had a game store scene. It was using lots of table values and had store items with arrows to navigate the store. Everything was working smoothly until I previewed it and nothing worked. All of the display text values weren't showing as well as the change images. If I try to click the back button nothing happens. The scene is completely frozen but it is only the one scene that is being effected. This is very frustrating! I quit gamesalad a number of times and restarted my whole computer. Nothing has helped. I also rechecked all my code and it is all correct and in the same order as it was when it was working before. Please help I can't continue development until this is fixed. Any ideas?
Thanks

tatiang

It's hard to argue with "it is all correct." A number of things could be causing this: a corrupt file (in which case you'd need to restore from an earlier backup); an incorrectly entered table name, row, or column; an attribute that was typed in rather than selected from the Attribute Browser; a scene that uses Change Scene but changes to itself, etc.

You have a few options. You could use Log Debugging Statements liberally sprinkled throughout your rules in order to determine the exact moment when the freeze occurs. You could delete actors one by one from the scene until you find the problematic actor. You could upload the project file to a file-sharing site (.zip it first), post the download link here, and hope someone has the time and energy to look through it for you. You could hire someone to fix the problem for you. You could purchase a Pro license and file a support ticket with GS. I'm out of ideas.

GSgames32

Delete

blue_elephant

@tatiang @GSgames32 here's the thing though. It was all working one minute, then later, (after not changing anything) nothing worked. It's just that scene thats all messed up too.
I'll do the log debugging like you said with lack of a better option. I hate to blame game salad for everything but I cant figure anything else out. I hope I can fix it and move on.
Thanks for the help.

tatiang

I hear you and it's possible it just stopped working. Hopefully you'll find some insight into why it happened.

blue_elephant

So it happened again. I found an old backup and rebuilt the entire thing - another 5 or so hours just to catch back up. Then The scene broke. I think it must be something wrong with the tablevalue function as I was working with that when it broke. However the exact same function was working just fine in a different actor but when I added it to two more, thats when it broke. Hopefully I can fix this fast so I can publish to Fire TV.

blue_elephant

Sweet hallelujah it seems to be working. With the help of the log debugger apperently my table had created a new column and was reading the wrong (empty) row which broke the scene. Thanks @tatiang !