I can now see that using the "wait until the correct character is typed before moving on" model would probably be dramatically simpler. I think that's also a fine way to go. So if a wrong character is entered, it does appear - but it's red - then a buzzer sounds, and the character flashes and goes away, leaving the user at the previous state, with the insertion point ready.

I think this must certainly be a far easier approach. It seems like it would also be less confusing to the user. Downside is it will not provide as much learning opportunity to troubleshoot and fix text, via the arrow keys, backspace, etc.

I think this route is the more sensible choice.

Hello friends,

I'm trying to make a typing practice interface for my students. The user is presented with a word, they type it, and, if correct, a new word is served. If incorrect, the wrong characters are highlighted. I know how to do everything except for the highlighting of the wrong characters.

Here's a barebones project file.

dropbox.com/s/r3mllpw3g0ji9q8/matchCharacters.c3p

It doesn't include the highlighting mechanic because my attempts were so totally fruitless that there's nothing worth sharing in that regard. I suspect that I am supposed to use len to compare at every tick and get the wrong characters, but I couldn't get it working despite prolonged attempts.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I don't see anything in Chrome called "Browser Storage" exactly. Which one of these are you referring to? Where are the plugins kept and where are the settings kept, in terms of the locations shown here? Thanks

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cookies not delete

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I already have that set. It doesn't do anything to prevent the issue. I think it's in site settings, which you can't make site-specific settings for. Why would something like your plugins ever be in these transient type locations that are always subject to being cleared? Plugins, settings and config files are the essence of what goes into AppData>Roaming. Is there some kind of technical limitation because it's a browser-based piece of software?If not this should really be changed to behave like all other software.

If you're launching it from a bookmark, or from a Chrome>Startup Page setting, make sure you update those as well. This is an easy thing to overlook, and it will cause the result that you're describing, which has happened to me as well.

Thanks, I did a little reading and it seems like a server side request has to be made to get the filenames. It seems to be fairly easy with PHP, and some posts said it can be done with AJAX. I was thinking that since the files folder is part of Construct and the request would not be cross-domain, there might be a way to do it that capitalizes on the somewhat proprietary design of Construct, but it looks like not.

In any case, I took the same approach that you've suggested. I used Irfanview, which has a "save filenames to txt file" option, then a couple search replace operations to format it. But it looks like this excel method is another good option. Thanks!

If I understood correctly, this will load a random file(png) from project files into a sprite, then set a text box to the choosen file name.

If you want to get rid of the .png on the end use set text to replace(Variable1,".png","")

Thanks for this sizcoz, it addresses part of what I am after. The other part though is to load images randomly from the files folder, without having to list all the filenames in a choose action. I have hundreds (thousands actually) of png files that are already prepared with nice simple descriptive filenames. If I have to type all of them into a choose action it defeats a lot of the purpose. Please see this post.

construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/how-do-i-8/load-random-non-sequential-164100

Thank you though, this is still helpful.