arrays and the mistery behind them

I would prefer not to since it's an almost finished game, is it ok if I strip everything out leaving just the array logic?

Ok, stripped everything but the array logic, same thing as the one @Kyatric posted, it looks like something bugged and the arrays are not working anymore.. I created another layout and on that I got back the array properties, you may notice that if you create a new one it hasn't got the properties (one included).

Interesting..

here it is: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1606950/array.capx

If someone manages to fix this can please explain what happened and why?

yeah the array aren't in your layout

You have to save you're game as project and go into your layout xml to add the array back in it.

How this has happened? And what is the syntax for getting the array back into the layout, I looked at the xml but where do I have to put it exactly and what is the syntax for the array object?

Create another project and put an array in it, then save it as project and look at how the xml is made.
You then just have to mimic the syntaxe

Thank you very much for you help!

[Kyatric]

In bugged.xml add:
[code]line99:    </layers>
    <nonworld-instances>
          <instance type="Array">
            <properties>
               <width>10</width>
               <height>1</height>
               <depth>1</depth>
            </properties>
        </instance>
          <instance type="Array_Positions">
            <properties>
               <width>10</width>
               <height>1</height>
               <depth>1</depth>
            </properties>
        </instance>
     </nonworld-instances>
line116: </c2layout>[/code]

Line 99 is just for you to know you have to add it at the end, between the layers tag and the c2 layout tag.

As for why, as I said in my post above, there's a bug that requires any object type to have an original instance in a layout.
This applies to arrays too, but it is harder to see as they are "nonworld" type of objects, they don't have a displayed instance in any layout.
But still, their layout of creation is also their layout of initialisation.
So if you create an array object on a layout, and later destroy this layout from your project, the array has no original instance anymore, and you can't create another instance (this is by design for nonworld instances I think, like you need only one "Keyboard" for all your project; all should be resolved once the "original instance bug" is fixed, on @Ashley's todo list already).

Also I forgot : the edited capxKyatric2012-02-13 01:00:41

Thank you very much for your help, finally I understand.

This thread helped me out too! Thanks, everyone, for your helpful input