Unable to assign variables with sprite values

[nwholloway]

I found that when I went to download the compiled code for something I was working on, that the compilation failed.

Through a process of elimination, I found the problem was assigning a variable from another that contains a sprite.

This fragment demonstrates the problem.

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a = sprite_build([[1, 0, 0, 0, 1], [0, 1, 0, 1, 0], [0, 0, 1, 0, 0], [0, 1, 0, 1, 0], [1, 0, 0, 0, 1]]);
b = a;

The project is http://www.codebug.org.uk/explore/codeb ... ssignment/.

[mikerr]

I've seen this one before - uninitialised sprite variable,
a workaround is to initialise the variable with a sprite first, and the getcharactersprite uses the least screen space for that:

[nwholloway]

That's a good workaround.