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Gui and Scripts

by elvince · in Torque 3D Professional · 06/21/2009 (11:29 am) · 3 replies

All,

When inspecting the different scripts & gui in the "New project" I made, I see that Gui files can contains script and other have a separate files.
More some have the cs file in the same folder and other are in another folder hierachy.

I know that all those item are working but is there a "best pratices" to organize those stuffs? Are there performance enhancement by doing the things in one way or another?

Thanks,

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Associate Michael Hall
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#1
06/21/2009 (12:03 pm)
I believe it was done for organizational purposes. I can see the intent to separate datablocks from the scripts -- it just wasn't followed through all the way.

For the most part it's a design choice of your own. So long as both sets get exec'd and things are in the proper order you'll be fine.

Associate Rene Damm
#2
06/22/2009 (6:49 am)
One little thing, though, that speaks for separating the GUI save files from the GUI logic is that when you re-exec() the logic from within a running engine for your modifications to take effect, you won't run into trouble with a whole host of definitions being rejected for rebinding to already defined names.

Redefining a function is okay for Torque, redefining an object isn't.

//Edit: Plus you don't want your objects being stomped when re-exec()'ing.

Associate Michael Hall
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#3
06/22/2009 (12:09 pm)
So true, I forgot about that aspect of it.