Getting property fields from a Tiled map

Alvalol

Hi everyone

I'm new to the forums and pretty new to Haxe (and Haxeflixel) as well.

I'm using a Tiledmap to create a level in my game, and when I try to get the flippedVertically property, I'm getting a TInt value. That's the good part : there seems to be a different value if the object is flipped or not, but it's not true or false and I can't use it as such.

	for (enemy in getLevelObjects(tiledMap, "enemies"))
		{		
				var flipped:Bool = cast(enemy.flippedVertically, Bool);
				trace(Type.typeof(flipped));
                  }

Trace gives me "TInt" in this example. Trying to get the value of flipped always gives me false though. The same happens if I try to get the value after the object is created and try to gather those values from the PlayState.

The only solution that I have found is very silly, but it's casting Int on that value and using it to compare if it's either equal or bigger than 0... which works, but I want to be able to use a boolean and do this properly.

Anyone got any idea what is going on here? I've been trying to solve this for a couple of days now, and even with the help of some other users we couldn't find a solution.

Thanks!

Gama11

What's enemy? A TiledObject? The flippedVertically property there is a Bool already: http://api.haxeflixel.com/flixel/addons/editors/tiled/TiledObject.html?#flippedVertically

DleanJeans

He said that somehow he get an Int instead?

Alvalol

@Gama11 said in Getting property fields from a Tiled map:

What's enemy? A TiledObject? The flippedVertically property there is a Bool already: http://api.haxeflixel.com/flixel/addons/editors/tiled/TiledObject.html?#flippedVertically

It is a TiledObject, but it returns a Tint. With the help from Foxel and Dlean Jeans on the Discord chat group, we managed to find a workaround, but the fact is that flippedVertically does not return a Bool, at least not in my case.

Maybe Foxel could chime in, as I'm very new to all this.

Gama11

Were you not able to use it as a Bool / got compiler errors?

Type.typeof() returns the type of a variable at runtime, but that's not necessarily relevant. What target was this on?

Alvalol

@Gama11 said in Getting property fields from a Tiled map:

Were you not able to use it as a Bool / got compiler errors?

Type.typeof() returns the type of a variable at runtime, but that's not necessarily relevant. What target was this on?

Target was Neko, and yeah, trying to get a Bool from the TInt value always returned false, even though the values were different (0 and 1073741824).

cast(enemy.flippedVertically, Bool); throws as Class cast error. Is that intended? Or maybe I'm using it incorrectly...

Gama11

This is actually a bug in TiledObject. I pushed a fix to the dev branch:

https://github.com/HaxeFlixel/flixel-addons/commit/fbdc71c151de27d78c1045bd02a123d566a631b8

Alvalol

Perfect, thanks for taking a look and for the help!

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