[Plugin] rex_Container

what does this have over the default container property for C2?

bscarl88

This plugin is NOT an official container feature.

Ok, but what advantages/disadvantages do I get from using the plugin over the built in container feature?

bscarl88

Official container could create sprite-pair at editor. My container creates sprite-pair at runtime. In this case official container is powerful then my plugin.

You might use my container only if you want to manage(add/remove) sprite-pair at runtime.

ah, that's exactly what I would like to do! perfect, thank you so much for clarifying!

Oh where do I start, rexrainbow? I just finished installing and sampling some of your bizillion plugins and I'm in pure awe. When I bump into something that I can't find an efficient way to complete in Construct 2, your plugins come and streamline it for me.

This plugin in particular, does something I had been trying to figure out for days - pick all the instances inside the container during runtime. The official container doesn't have that feature but this is going to save my life.

For that purpose, both containers are equally powerful. This whole "container" feature would be complete with both official and rex's functions combined.

I'm done rambling. Thank you again rex.

rosareven

To have more control on a group of instances, try instance group plugin.

I have a bug that when you create and add instances to containers the container that's picked by (Touch or Mouse event)is wrong and thus the instances is attached to the wrong instance.

I have made a Capx to show you an example.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2175584/Construct2Examples/Container%20Bug.capx

Select the container to attach a "Yellow" box and the select them again to remove it, you can also use wheel mouse to more them up/down. After selecting them for a while you should notice that the one you select isn't he one that has the yellow box attached too or the coordinates are wrong.

labithiotis

I had saw this in my pm. I need more time to understand this capx, sorry.

Update:

Fix bug at "pin method".

I will rewrite some code when I add save/load system into this plugin.

labithiotis

Try this updated.

Yep that's working perfectly now with adding elements but i think there's a bug with destroying containers. See attached capx

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/85804468/Container%20Bug.capx

Also is it possible to "Pin" the object to another, so if I have 3 containers and pinned them to board and move that(board y), is that possible as I can't get that to work, also/or is it possible to add containers to containers so if you had a container called board and containers attached to that called enemies with several sprites/texts objects.

labithiotis

Do you mean that you need a container for chess, move these chess together like an unit on my board plugin?

Kinda, just need a system to move all containers and using a single object for reference of x y so I can limit the movement of all containers.

Also I have had to revert your plugin update as its crashing when I remove container and all instances

labithiotis

Thanks, I had fixed this bug, please download it again.