MAKOINFUSED'S PROFILE

author=pete_mw
Your most important problem is that you're creating an array with no elements and then trying to iterate over each element. Since there are no elements, Ruby won't do anything.

Additionally, this is wrong:

$sprite_array.each {|x| x = Sprite.new}

The problem here is that 'x' isn't part of the array. It's just a name that Ruby lets you use to refer to something.

You shouldn't actually be calling each on your array at all. Probably the best way to do this is to use the array comprehension form of Array.new, which you can find discussed here:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.8.7/Array.html

Essentially, you want to write something like:

$sprite_array = Array.new(10) {|i| Sprite.new}

Replacing 10 with how many sprites you actually want.

As for the '$' sign, yes, that creates a global variable. They aren't a "waste of memory" as long as you use them, but it does look to me like what you're doing could end up landing you in a world of hurt.

What are you actually trying to achieve with this?

You must have been writing this for a long time, because this was solved more than an hour ago. Remember to refresh!

author=Zachary_Braun
That did the trick! I'll have to remember that .fill method.

Thank you for your help!

Yeah, no problem, glad I could help. Just remember to look through this website here, unless you've already been there. It can be quite handy when looking for methods to use for your code. Of course that website has more than just information on Arrays, it has pretty much everything, just browse through!

Good luck!

Yes this totally possible. However, you're using the each loop incorrectly (over complicating it). There is no need to do this:

The correct way of using this form of loop is to just do this:

Of course, this is assuming that the variable $thespritemap already had some values in it, because you're creating a sprite for each already existing value. However, if you don't have any, what you can do is add this on top of that piece of code, like so:
This would create 15 (+1) indexes in the array, then create a sprite for each empty index.

You can then refer to each sprite individually by using:

So, you can use it for something like this:

Also, I wouldn't recommend using a $ symbol as that denotes a global variable, which can be accessed from anywhere in the code (waste of memory).

I don't blame you, I wouldn't do it the way I described either. I tend to just make separate windows in cases like that, but it sounded like one of your requirements was that the caption and commands be in the same window.

Yeah, Window_Command doesn't have any captions as part of the window.

Although your way works, you could always just make the confirmation a separate window (inheriting from Window_Command). Then you simply make that window's graphic transparent. So, the person would just see the one window (with a caption) and the desired choices. I'm pretty sure that would be an easier way of solving this problem, no?

Yeah...you definitely need a better computer... 1.6 GHz, single core? That is terribly slow. I've never heard of this problem before either.