codah's Forum Posts

  • codah I was telling him to to start running to layout first as he said it can take a while to save. but yeah ether works

    oh ok . Because run then save won't work for me as when I run it switches to Chrome, so I'd have to switch back first. Then back again... too much work.

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  • I think the fastest way would be learn to use the keyboard shortcuts.

    example with you want to use debug and save

    Press Ctrl + F5 Debug current layout then Ctrl + S to Save project

    Don't you mean Ctrl-S then Ctrl-F5? I also think a 'save before run' might be good.

    grossd have you got autosave set to the smallest time period? Anyway an external auto backup would be your best bet.

  • 2 minor requests.

    I wish, after a build ("The Build Was Successful") and we click Close, that it would automatically do "Close build page" for us.

    Also under Project/Build Settings, if it could remember what we last used (e.g. Android, Android-Crosswalk, etc.). Same with Launch Icons and Splash Screens"....

    IntelRobert

  • Well I gave up on the tool and made my own by hand At least it works.

  • After some more experimenting I still think I concur with current behaviour. The event sheet doesn't remember its state after re-entering it from another event sheet. Good to know though. The manual doesn't say anything about that case.

  • Post a capx or screenshot? I guess it makes sense because when you change layout, the event sheet is starting over fresh, so triggers are reset, like the Trigger once.

  • I'm probably the only Australian user.

    way to go reading the posts skippy

  • There is a FSM plugin but TBH I haven't worked it out.

    Adding a finite state machine as a 'first class' concept in Construct would be great, with visual editing tools. It's something virtually every game needs.

  • Are you one of the developers?

  • Well, this is kind of difficult to resolve. We can either use the normal expression input control which has auto-complete, syntax highlighting, and so on, but no dropdown. Or we can use a dropdown control which doesn't have auto-complete and syntax highlighting.

    I guess we would need to somehow bolt on a new dropdown feature of the normal expression control. That could be complicated. Is this definitely something which is important to your project?

    Well, it's definitely second nature to me now to type "fn." then have all my function names appear.

    Then I thought, well maybe the new feature isn't so bad, I'll give it a try. Typing " and having my function names appear is just as good after all

    So I try R185 again and find that when I type " there is NO auto complete How do we keyboard jockeys use this system? (yea I know, Alt-down arrow then arrow or " to scroll)

    So I'm kind of bummed out about that. But if it's only me then, meh.

    Couldn't we have this:

    User types " (double quote) -> function names dropdown appears, with auto complete

    OR

    User types anything else -> 'normal' dropdown appears with auto complete

    I don't understand why, if the function name parsing is already done (viz the dropdown) that auto complete couldn't work here?

    ANYWAY I'm sure I could come to terms with the new way and everyone else seems ecstatic, so I'm sure I'd get used to it before long It does save me the trouble of having to add Text instance vars to a FN object.

    Have re-installed 185 now, see how I go. Thanks.

  • But I'm building with it just fine so it's weird. build 1494

  • codah my dear friend these people think we might steal their code.

    Actually I understand that feeling, so I don't have a problem with that really.. But maybe a sample one would be good.

  • Damn. I guess you deleted the XDK project before recreating it? Othrwise IDK

  • truefalcon If you can't post a capx, can you try and extract just the core of your problem, in terms of C2 concepts like layouts, etc. I must admit I don't understand your actual issue. Concepts like stars, levels and unlocks can be 'red herrings' for us to understand your problem

  • So many ways of doing this. You could have a 1D array for the "word1", "word2" etc and a 2D array for the "a1", "a2" and "b1", "b2" etc. Then use the X index from the first array as the Y index into the second array.

    DUTOIT's way is the other I was thinking of as well. Choose whichever you think is simpler for you.