czar's Forum Posts

  • Arima see how the edit box has the code nicely colour coded? I was expecting the entire event sheet to be coded in the same way. It would certainly help with readability. In my experience thatis how most IDEs work.

  • Arima Hi I must be missing something.

    I thought the idea would be that the colour in the edit box would also be used to display text in the event sheet. I just get black. I have gone through the colour definitions and colours are being used.

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  • Good to hear ASHLEY. I am fully aware that you have time restrictions and varying priorities. Thanks for replying.

  • ok, fair enough. It took me a while to work out why my endless loop was glitching.

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  • Jase00 I am not underestimating Ashely's job. I have been developing software for 20 years so I know how much time goes into developing a good product. However, these suggestions are not trivial from a usability point of view and to make C2 attractive requires more than nice features. Using C2 on a large project really highlights the short comings of the C2 IDE.

    Whether or not Ashley adds ideas to a to do list I cannot comment on. On the whole we get very little insight of where things are or where they are going. The recent request for user input was great but it would be nice if scirra published a rough roadmap. Anyway, these are my 2c worth and I figure the only way Ashley and crew now about what issues we grapple with is if we post about them.

  • ludei Ashley

    How is memory management issues going?

    On my iPad 3 I sometimes get a "pause" when I have look in the console there is a "received memory warning" message.

    Is there anything we can do in the meantime? Can we dump textures out of memory manually?

    What else can we optimise to reduce memory footprint. I have already attempted to get all textures be smaller than 512x512 I am at a loss as to what else I can do.

  • ludei Ashley

    The Audio Set Silent just doesn't work on ipads. Works fine in browsers but completely ignored on iPad is this issue fixed in cocoonjs 1.4? and if so when are we likely to be able to access the update?

  • Link to .capx file (required!):

    dropbox.com/s/dbnvm6dsekddvtq/MindTheGap.capx

    Steps to reproduce:

    1. Save the capx as project and then open the files folder.

    2. Open the ogg, wav and m4a in audio program like sound forge. You can see that there is now a gap in the waveform of teh m4a that was not present in teh wave file and is not in the ogg file.

    3. The wave and ogg are seamless loops the m4a has a gap added to it by the C2 conversion

    Observed result:

    The seamless loop is now not seamless it has a horrid sounding gap. :(

    Expected result:

    The m4a should be seamless like the ogg and the original wave file.

    Browsers affected:

    any that play the m4a in preference to the ogg file

    Operating system & service pack:

    Construct 2 version:

    128.2

    I have found this information about the problem

    forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php

    At the moment I am passing my ogg through this website

    audio.online-convert.com/convert-to-m4a

    The resulting file is seamless, so it can be done. It appears the converter that you are using for C2 is the culprit.

    This result is not a problem for simple non-looping sounds but is a killer for when a seamless continuous sound is required, e.g., engine noises, waterfalls etc

  • Ashley,

    This list is no way supposed to be taken as a whinge or wanting to be a pain. I have been using C2 full time now for a number of months on a large commercial project. Our project has over 30 layouts and accompanying event sheets and we have found C2 to be incredibly flexible and all round super product. However, we have also found many instances where it could be vastly improved. I have mentioned most of these things a number of times but they appear to be being ignored. I am sure I am not the only one who would love to see C2 usability improved so I felt I would put all my findings in one thread and hopefully be able to tick them off as they are solved :)

    Colour Coding

    This was a massive improvement. It makes editing so much easier. But why stop there, why not apply to the entire event sheet?

    Keyboard Shortcuts

    ctrl-home jump to top of event sheet

    ctrl-end - jump to bottom of sheet

    ctrl-shift-1 set bookmark 1 (where one is one to to nine)

    ctrl-1 jump to bookmark

    Bookmarks are such a basic feature I am really surprised they aren't already available.

    Code Analytics and search functions

    Search: Could we please get a function so that we can easily figure out which layout a sprite is used?

    Warnings: Analysis of sprites and objects not used in any event sheet.

    Warnings: Which functions are called and not actually defined? Also unused functions.

    Search: meta-search that spans all layouts

    Replacing sprite

    When an existing sprite is loaded with a new image can we have the option to retain current size? At the moment if I replace a 600x600 image with 512x512 image all instances seem to jump to 512x512.

    Audio

    Audio support is very primitive. It is unclear what the best practice is. i.e, should we make everything a wave file first and then import. If we made the wave why would we want to keep it in the capx? Why not have it as an option to retain the wave within the capx? Personally when I found out that waves weren't required I removed them all as the back up to dropbox was starting to get quite tedious due to size of the capx.

    When selecting "audio" | "play" (action) the list of sounds is not in any particular order. When this list gets quite long it is very annoying. Why aren't they simply in alphabetical order?

    Also can we please get a replace sound with another sound function? At the moment if I have changed the wave file externally in Sound Forge and I need to reimport it I need to delete the current file within C2 losing all events and actions using that sound. This is a major hassle, especially if that sound is used in multiple layouts.

    Please provide a preview function within C2. It is currently not possible to just have a listen to a sound to remind you what it sounds like.

    Please remember I am asking for changes and improvements because I want to see this good product get even better. I have kept my list to things that I felt should be pretty straight forward to implement. Some of them would be pretty basic I am sure. I hope you give them proper consideration.

  • When selecting audio play the list of sounds is not in any particular order. When this list gets quite long it is very annoying that they aren't simply in alphabetical order.

    Also can we please get a replace sound with another sound function. At the moment if I have changed the wave file externally in Sound Forge and I need to reimport it I need to delete the current file within C2 losing all events and actions using that sound. This is a major hassle, especially if that sound is used in multiple layouts.

    Also, can we have a preview sound function with C2? It is currently not possible yo just have a listen to a sound to remind you what it sounds like.

  • What I hate is that the formatting gets stuffed up all of the time. I will open a event sheet and the columns are all tightly pushed to the left of the screen and I have to move the columns out using the mouse. Why can't these sheets just auto format based on the width of the monitor. e.g., Actions start at the half way mark and each indent moved to a certain location.

    hmmm, I really need to start and carry on a list as these are such basic problems that don't ever get attention. :(

  • I am really hoping the update will improve speeds on low end android smart phones. At the moment my app runs prefectably reasonable on older iphones (4 and 4s), on current android (s3, nexus7 )etc but not on cheaper android phones. e.g, around the $250 US mark, the difference is 28-38 FPS down to 3 FPS :(

  • That is a lot of material. They look very good quality. I won't use any at the moment as I have my hands full, but I will surely see if I can use some on a future project.

  • Lots of views, no solutions :( Ashley, does this mean it is a bug in wrap?

    I seem to be stuck.

    I cannot change the layout size after the app has started so as it is wrap will not function correctly if the screen size is set to scale.

  • thehen thanks for the explanation - very interesting