Many Globals

Hi, my game is getting a little silly in the way of too many global variables, Will having a load of Globals adversly affect my CPU?

Nope!

But a small tip is to have all your global variables in a type, that way you avoid problems with mistyped variable names :)

how would i do that?

type gfx_id
 field gfx_menu1 = 1
 field ....
end type

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Something like this:

type myglobals
  field var1
  field var2
  etc...
end type

global globs.myglobals = new myglobals

globs\var1 = whatever
globs\var2 = whatever
etc.

And then just access them using "globs\variablename" throughout the code.

I use this technique all the time. VERY helpful and cuts down on coding errors.

Interesting technique, I may try this

Awsome, it works!!! looks a little better, and my computer seems to run faster :o\

Are You sure its faster?
I've done a little test and its seems to me that globals ( and constants) are 100% faster...
Buts its indeed handy to track typos!

You could probably do a find and replace to convert the type fields back to proper globals for the release version.

FYI: I vaguely remember that someone found that there was a limit to the number of globals that could be used in a program, but I believe the number that they were using was some ridiculously large amount.

I would warn to be careful using lots of Globals (to include Global Custom Types) if at all possible. I ran into some bugs that were painfully difficult to find due to overwritting global data. In fact the bugs, were so painful that scrap weeks of work to start over:(