Variable used either as number either as string

[Bluzima]

Thanks a lot for your replies @Keith_1357 and @MrMen !

@MrMen

I’d use VariableString(…) and Variable(…). Because JavaScript is loosely typed, it’s perfectly fine to do it that way. This won’t be what’s causing the long loading time.

OK. Good to hear that, it reassures me about my project. I’ll look for the issue elsewhere then.

@Keith_1357

But I believe you would need a significant amount of code, loops or large resources like images or sound to cause a significant noticeable delay. I would use the debugger to see what’s happening.

I deleted all sprites and music files from my project, and also old scenes that I don’t use anymore : it made a change, loading the preview fastest. But still 4 min loading…
About loops I don’t think they are the problem. Cause if I preview an empty scene, the delay is also long. So the delay is not about reading the code in frames, but before that, loading the preview.

If you have any idea or similar issue, another thread has been open about that long-loading preview issue :

Would this be a "bottleneck" in the code or what?

What I can actually say is that RandoninRange is not the cause of failures in my project anymore, it was because many variables were “wrong”. I had a delay of more or less 1 min depending on the situation. Another thing that made my project more fluid was the fact that I passed all possible animations to Tiled (yes I use it to make my game rooms and everything else) as well as background and the rest of things. And these files are no longer in GD, I believe it has improved a lot.