Weird Gamemaker Glitch

[GMG Kurt]

You have to set everyones permission to READ & WRITE on the temp file.

OK so I did this and it didn't work. Although I did find the answer! I knew that whenever my sprite command was entered, and I tried the save the whole game fell apart! So I tried putting my Game doc. in my 'Data' folder, and changed the code from

SPRITE 1 10 10 Data:cycle_red
to
SPRITE 1 10 10 cycle_red

Doing this made it work and I'm just going to have to hope I still have enough time to finnish as much of the game I can for the contest. Thanks everyone for helping me.  

[Al Staffieri]

OK so I did this and it didn't work. Although I did find the answer! I knew that whenever my sprite command was entered, and I tried the save the whole game fell apart! So I tried putting my Game doc. in my 'Data' folder, and changed the code from

SPRITE 1 10 10 Data:cycle_red
to
SPRITE 1 10 10 cycle_red

Doing this made it work and I'm just going to have to hope I still have enough time to finnish as much of the game I can for the contest. Thanks everyone for helping me.  

Thanks. I'll check that out.

EDIT: Confirmed. After accessing a sprite in a folder and then saving the project, GameMaker gets the project folder location messed up and can't find the temp file. The data is mistakenly stored in the GameMaker application itself instead of the temp file. I'll work on a fix for this.

Thank you. Sorry about the trouble it caused you.

[Al Staffieri]

After accessing a sprite in a folder and then saving the project, GameMaker gets the project folder location messed up and can't find the temp file. The data is mistakenly stored in the GameMaker application itself instead of the temp file.

I knew this worked before, so I tried running GameMaker on my old iMac and it works fine using graphics in folders. This means the problem is that OS X 10.6 changed the way it handles folders. That also means it could be harder to fix.
 
If you are running OS X older than 10.6 you shouldn't have any problems.

[Al Staffieri]

the problem is that OS X 10.6 changed the way it handles folders. That also means it could be harder to fix.

I think I have this fixed, but I need to test it more and make the change in other commands that can use folders such as MOVIE. An update should be out soon.

[Al Staffieri]

Still working on the update, but wanted to say that I just added
SPRITECOLLIDE spritenum X Y
to test if a sprite is touching X Y coordinate. Currently you can only test if a sprite is touching another sprite.

[Silverwind]

Woh, awesome idea Al! So if you had a 10x10 pixel sprite, you could tell if another sprite was touching the ninth pixel from the left and so on?

[Al Staffieri]

I believe it should work the same as SPRITETOUCHINGXY in SilverCreator.

[GMG Kurt]

I believe it should work the same as SPRITETOUCHINGXY in SilverCreator.

Using this you could tell what side of the character, was hit. This could be a very useful code for a Legend of Zelda tribute.