grossd's Forum Posts

  • Thanks codah,

    However, in my game the user can return to a layout, and after testing, it seems that unless i reset the layout (with a reset action), the state of the group is "global" and remains as it was when the layout was left. Because of this i can't rely on the

  • Yes.

    Now i have code like so:

    on start layout => Activate Group "Group1"

    condition ^ once => Deactivate Group "Group1"

    So, a group of events/actions included in Group 1, are only active from the beginning of the layout until a condition holds.

    I think it would be nice if an activate or deactivate condition could be entered in the group itself. Right now, the only condition available is active when layout starts.

    Dan

  • I think you are right.

    With sub-events this can be done quite nicely ...

    I wonder, if there is value to allow structuring more visually with Groups and activation condition of groups.

    Dan

  • Hi Ashley,

    I notice that a lot of my code is temporal in nature -- events that happen before or after certain conditions hold, and actions that should only happen after certain events occurred, like state machines.

    I think a useful advanced (or perhaps not so advanced) feature would be to have gated sections in an event sheet. Each gates section would have a condition expression that must be true for all events in the section to trigger. It may also be possible to include event sheets into a gated section, which would mean that all events in the event sheet would only fire when the gated conditions are also met.

    Like this the event sheet could have a section that is activated when the layout started, and a section that is activated when, say, the player is on low food, which is, say, an important state in the game. Etc. There could also be subsections, which add selected pre-conditions.

    I think this can already be implemented with Groups while playing with activation conditions of groups in seperate event expressions. But, it would be nice to have this "out of the box"

    Perhaps a simple "syntactic sugar" implementation would be to support conditions on Groups to activate or deactive them.

    In a way an event sheet would then be turned into a (hierarchical) state machine in chart form.

    what do you think,

    Dan

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  • Not exactly, sort them by player name -- I guess you meant that ...

  • Thanks Ethan,

    I do use the keys of a Dictionary, for example, to store player names, and dictionary values, to store some values associated with each player, say, number of time the player played a game.

    When outputting this information, its useful to have the players sorted -- despite being internally stored in a dictionary.

    Dan

  • Hi,

    Is there a convenient way to create a table to present on screen tabular data. I have a matrix of data with rows and column labels which i would like to show on screen -- nicely formatted.

    thanks,

    Dan

  • Hi,

    It would be great if it were possible to have the keys in a dictionary sorted during a loop execution. While dictionaries per definition do not define a sort order for keys -- dictionaries are merely associative storage, it would nevertheless be useful to be able to travers all keys in a sorted manner.

    Right now, I load the dictionary keys into an array, sort the array, and then loop through the array and access the dictionary via the the keys sorted in the array -- it works well, but is rather memory intensive and cumbersome.

    thanks,

    Dan

  • Hi all,

    Can someone explain to me what loopback.io is and whether this can be used to advantage in C2 to connect to cloud based databases using the Browser/Ajax plugins, somehow?

    Also, I have been reading a bit about node.js -- from what i gather its essentially a web server, and also includes a package manager to add packages to the server.

    Can I write node-webkit apps/games with C2, than could then also be deployed on a node.js server? Does this makes sense to do?

    Trying to get my head around all those technologies.

    My main objective is to create a simple browser plugin based approach to read/writing into a cloud database.

    Dan

  • Yann,

    In the meantime I created my own C2 based "library" function to push and pop a set the path using an Array/Stack. It works pretty well ...

    so, whenever i descend I push the current last path element into a stack, and when i return from the decent i pop the stack, after each push and pop I set the path looping through the current elements in the stack (array).

    So, if you could implement a simple "pop" that would be great.

  • Thanks.

    What is the FGL plugin ... can i see examples somewhere

  • Hi,

    I'd like to use CloudBase.IO, a cloud based NoSQL DB, to store JSON data in the cloud (http://cloudbase.io/documentation/javas ... et-started).

    It looks rather simple to do. There are a number of js libraries, available in full text, defining various functions. I need to get those libraries included and the can call functions.

    I want to do this without! plugin programming using C2 facilities and existing plugins, such as external js calls, only! Can this be done?

    1. It is possible to include the libraries somehow in C2, so that the functions are available upon C2 start, and in particular in node-webkit.

    2. Is it possible to make JS library calls -- i presume that this is the easy part

    3. There is a need to response to call backs. Can this be done from C2.

    Or does this all require plugin programming (i.e. creation of a wrapper plugin) to make this work?

    thank you,

    Dan

  • all my keys are strings.

  • Thanks.

    Its like this:

    UserSession.addKey(gameMetric_n, m)

    UserSessions.addKey(Date1, UserSession.asJson)

    AllUsersSessions.addKey(userName, UserSessions.asJson)

    and a few more like these nested within UserSession

    In the end i stored AllUsersSessions.asjson into a text file.

    So, the total outcome appears like nested wrapped C2 Json

  • Thanks.

    In the end I (nested) looped (with conditions) through all the dictionary structures and used the JSON plugin to recreate JSON. Took some time to work out.

    Would there be value to have a compatible JSON export on dictionaries and arrays?