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[scarlet latch]

here

We have slider that changes mark

lets focus on "On Value Changed"

[slow nebula]

What's the code it's running

[scarlet latch]

we do this

[scarlet latch]

wait man im trynna explain, wait..

[slow nebula]

Okay, so whenever you change the value of this slider, no matter what value you change it to, you call this function with false?

[scarlet latch]

false means "do not send this to undo/redo manager, wait until its final so that we dont have thousands of stacks"

so it goes trough this code...

WhatDo == 23 in this case

this is in a loop of buildingscript.WhatWeSelected

which is just the elements we have selected

after we exit the loop

we do this

since there is only 1 gradient system, so we dont need to do it each time

now..

in gradient system - we have this..

[slow nebula]

Okay, first off, you should definitely not be using magic numbers to define completely different functionality

[scarlet latch]

why does the color change for every single text

[bright fog]

How are the text colors defined

What is TextMarkColor

what is it an array of

[slow nebula]

With this much spaghetti code you're going to need to set a breakpoint and look at what the code is actually doing

[scarlet latch]

its a list of every color gradient system has

[bright fog]

and how do those colors get propagated to text objects?

[scarlet latch]

it has nothing to do with text system so i dont understand

[bright fog]

what's a color gradient?

[slow nebula]

attempting to follow this by hand with so many magic numbers and conditionals is just not going to happen

[bright fog]

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[wise pulsar]

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[scarlet latch]

this,

[bright fog]

no

I mean I want to see the code

[scarlet latch]

1 sec

[bright fog]

pastebin is better than screenshots

[scarlet latch]

wait wdym color gradient, where is that

[bright fog]

you tell me

[slow nebula]

That's literally what he's asking you

[bright fog]

you just said TextMarkColors was a list of color gradients

[scarlet latch]

oh yeah one sec

its the colors on right which are the same as the colors on left

but not sorted

[bright fog]

I'm really just asking to see code

but - it's a List<Color>?

That's all I was asking

[scarlet latch]

public List<Color> TextMarkColors;

[bright fog]

Where do those colors get used?

[scarlet latch]

yep

[bright fog]

also What is AllMarksHandles?

[scarlet latch]

in function ShaderGraphic, we do this

[slow nebula]

!code

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[scarlet latch]

thes 4 things

[bright fog]

i mean you're copying the reference to the array here

but you're not actually consuming the colors

[scarlet latch]

cmon man that would take way longer

[bright fog]

please just share the code

no, it would be way faster

this is like pulling teeth

[scarlet latch]

but thats not the problem, i dont call shaderGraphic at all

[slow nebula]

I really don't know how you pasting your script to a bin is slower than showing us one function every ten minutes after tons of cajoling and you not understanding the questions

[bright fog]

If you're just writing colors to an array somewhere and never using them, then your code wouldn't do anything at all, period.

IDK what "shaderGraphic" is or how it's relevant tbh

[scarlet latch]

give me a second

[slow nebula]

To be honest, I don't even know what the problem is. What objects are having their colors changed? What code is changing their colors?

[bright fog]

we still haven't seen the code that actually uses the colors to do something

[scarlet latch]

when changing a mark color, the colors get changed for each text object

[bright fog]

show us the code

don't describe the code

[scarlet latch]

but i dont call it???

[slow nebula]

Okay, what is a "text object" and where are its colors changed

[scarlet latch]

i literally disabled it

[bright fog]

then your code would do nothing at all

[scarlet latch]

but it changes for everything somehow

[bright fog]

Your code is doing it

if you share the code we can help you find where

[scarlet latch]

let me try and debug it

[slow nebula]

And if their colors are changed anyway, then what you disabled wasn't the thing that did it

[bright fog]

yes that would be a good idea

[scarlet latch]

ah wait, i explained it wrong

not the colros are changed, but the script that holds the data for the colors

[bright fog]

and which script is that?

It's reaaaally hard to help without details

[scarlet latch]

okay one second

look for a seconds here

when i disable this part here

nothing happens anymore

the colors dont change

[slow nebula]

Okay, so, presumably, that code does the thing you want it to not do

[scarlet latch]

the data thats attached to the text doesnt change too

now

if i enable it back it changes the data for every text that out there

why? it shouldnt do anything at all...

[bright fog]

well presumably because you're just sharing a single array betwen them all

but it's really hard to say WITHOUT SEEING THE CODE

[scarlet latch]

the whole code is like 2000 lines 😭

[slow nebula]

Well, it's modifying the values of TextMarkColors and AllMarksHandles which are presumably being used somewhere

[bright fog]

that's literally nothing my dude

I'm a professional software engineer

I probably read 50k lines of code every day

[scarlet latch]

dangg

okay wait a sec

[bright fog]

you really don't need to read them all if you know how to read code

[slow nebula]

Which is a big fuckin problem for one thing, this code is horribly architected but that's not the question here

[scarlet latch]

give me a second

i think it is all because another function is triggered

[scarlet latch]

then i guess its not this part that does it, i think its because when the color array gets changed, after that another function gets triggered

[bright fog]

Why do you guess that

[scarlet latch]

i will try to debug everything right now and see how it works

[slow nebula]

I think at this point we are just highly paid rubber duckies

[bright fog]

It seems to me based on the very limited information you have shared that you are simply sharing the same array among all your components

so - when you modify that one array, all of them see the modification

[scarlet latch]

😭

[bright fog]

I'll take it