Check Number of Events on Map (SOLVED)

[lonely_cubone]

I'm trying to make a BLIZZ-Abs skill that causes the targets to run away. I know I can do this with common events and forced actions, but there's one thing I can't figure out, and I'm sure it's just a little bit of code. How can I set an in-game variable to the number of events on a map? Thanks to anyone who can solve this hopefully simple problem.

[Blizzard]

Since you are using Blizz-ABS, which count exactly do you need? Enemy count, real event count or the count of all events and enemies on the map altogether?

[lonely_cubone]

All events, both enemies and non-enemies.

[Blizzard]

$game_variables[VARIABLE_ID] = $game_map.events.size

[lonely_cubone]

Okay, thanks Blizzard! That's exactly what I was looking for.

[lonely_cubone]

I'm having issues with this. The code Blizzard gave me works fine, but something else related to it is messing up.

As I said, I'm making a skill that causes enemies to run away from the user. It gives the enemies a state, and then runs a common event. The common event checks for this state on each enemy, and if the enemy has it, the enemy runs away. The problem is, once it gets to actually telling the enemy to run away, it gets a syntax error. This is a picture of the common event:

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Does anyone know what the issue is? I've checked the manual many times, and it appears that I'm doing everything correctly. By the way, I'm using Blizz-ABS 2.7.

[Blizzard]

The parenthesis goes into the line before like "force_action(".

[lonely_cubone]

Thank you so much! That works perfectly!
As you can probably tell, my Ruby/RGSS skills are a bit... lacking, but I am trying to learn it, and I know other languages pretty well. Little things like this are helping me understand the language, a little bit at a time.

[WhiteRose]

Thank you so much! That works perfectly!
As you can probably tell, my Ruby/RGSS skills are a bit... lacking, but I am trying to learn it, and I know other languages pretty well. Little things like this are helping me understand the language, a little bit at a time.

You might want to mark the first post as solved rather than the last, so that the topic title changes. 

[lonely_cubone]

Oops, sorry.