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  • 21 Jul, 2012
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  The save/load actions work, they should save the entire state of the game. The shortcoming of it is not all the plugins save/load all of their state.

• • R0J0hound
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  • 21 Jul, 2012
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  You could use a dictionary object and make a conversion table. Instead of adding each key,value pair individually I would do it all at once with the "load" action of the dictionary object to load a JSON string.

  You could also use javascript to do the conversion. It's a fairly common operation so searching a javascript reference should give a result. You can then use the javascript from C2 with a third party plugin that allows you to call javascript code.

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  • 19 Jul, 2012
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  Instead of checking with events, you could make a variable for your txtWords which stores a list of the txtGame.IIDs then you could just check with a pattern in events.

  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5426011/examples12/ArcadEd.capx r99

  edit: The array object isn't used anymore.

  Also here is another way of doing something similar:

  http://www.scirra.com/forum/word-search-game_topic44971.html

• • R0J0hound
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  • 19 Jul, 2012
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  You could try setting text to "Dictionary.AsJSON" for a single action way of displaying the contents.

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  • 19 Jul, 2012
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  You need to reset the variable to 0 before you count.

  This is how I'd do it:

  Global number zero_count=0

  System: Every tick

  ---- System: Set zero_count to 0

  Array: For each X element

  Array: Current value = 0

  ---- System: Add 1 to zero_count

• • R0J0hound
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  • 19 Jul, 2012
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  You can do it with the canvas plugin:

  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5426011/examples12/mirror.capx

  Once there are webgl shaders in c2 it will be easier to get high quality results.

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  • 19 Jul, 2012
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  It's by design and was added around r90 or so. Before that a size of zero was not allowed.

  I say keep it as is. An array with a width of zero is invaluable when using arrays as a dynamic list, stack or queue. Not to mention that it would be a regression that would break existing capx files.

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  • 18 Jul, 2012
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  You could rename the *.zip to *.pak, and wouldn't a password protected zip negate the risk?

  You could always add the resource files to the "files" folder of your project and use the resource plugin to access them. That way you would have only one big exe instead of many files.

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  • 18 Jul, 2012
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  It's just a bit of math:

  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5426011/examples12/orbit2.capx

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  • 17 Jul, 2012
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  What's a NDS file? Nintendo DS rom? No, that's quite impossible.

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  • 17 Jul, 2012
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  You could use password protected zip files and use python to access the files. The only problem is in order to access a file it would have to be extracted somewhere before it is accessible by your game.

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  • 17 Jul, 2012
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  Here is the previous example with only 4-direction select:

  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5426011/examples12/pick_chain_4way.capx

  EDIT:

  Here's another way using the Array object:

  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5426011/examples12/area_size.capx

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  • 16 Jul, 2012
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  #6 is just pseudo code. I often use pseudo code to portray how to do something instead of a capx file or a screenshot of events.

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• • R0J0hound
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  • 16 Jul, 2012
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  For the snapping you could do something like this:

  for each object

  pick grid closest to (object.x, object.y)

  -- set object position to grid

  For making a grid hold only one object you could add a variable to the grid objects to store the UID of the object that's on it. UIDs start at 0 so you could use a value like -1 to indicate the grid is empty.

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  • 16 Jul, 2012
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  All <varies> means is the value isn't the same for all the objects.

  The "pair" variable is just used to link the platform and the dummy objects. So to make a third platform just add another platforma and dummy and set their "pair" values to 3.