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- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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Physics and other movements don't tie in particularly well at the moment: currently, if you move it with a mouse movement or such, it has the effect of teleporting a series of positions along the line you move it, rather than having a velocity and force applied. It's one of the improvements we need to make to the physics engine.
- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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A bug. Should be fixed in next build.
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Variables go in single quotes, eg. Global('Myvar'). You should try the ghost shooter tutorial, it teaches you things like this <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" />
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Under the 'Layers' category in the System object for both actions and expressions, you'll find 'Set opacity' and 'Get opacity'.
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It's something I just haven't got round to yet. I think I'll just drop it, the new version has a live updater which can grab new plugin and runtime releases between builds.
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You can rename event sheets in the dialog where you add and remove them from the list. Single click a selected item to rename it, like renaming a file in windows explorer.

Can you send me your .cap that runs out of memory? I need to be able to reproduce it.
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Yikes! Beats me right now, the code for that part is a direct wrapper to the physics engine. It might be a rounding error. The worrying thing is the same thing happened when I swapped Set Velocity for Set Force <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_sad.gif" alt=":(" title="Sad" />
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I think I've fixed this now, when the next build comes out let me know if it works!
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I think it only supports BMP files for loading. Are you trying to load a PNG or JPG? If so, that wouldn't work. Maybe I can add support for other formats in a later version.
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Oops, a bug! Something is wrong with For Each Element. I'll try have it fixed for the next build, which should be out today or tomorrow.
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Well your event is equivalent to:

+ Always

+ Array: For Each Element

+ (System/Compare values) Array.CurrentValue equal to 1

: Create Object blahblah...

i.e., 'For Each' on its own runs every frame, not just once.

To resolve this add another condition above the 'For Each' condition. In my original example, I added a 'On spacebar pressed' condition above the For Each, to avoid this problem: the array is only checked when you press spacebar.
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- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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Suppose you want to perform an action on every element which equals 77.

Use the conditions:

+ Array: For Each Element

+ (System/Compare values) Array.CurrentValue equal to 77

: Any actions you want

For example, to limit all elements in the array to a maximum of 100 when the user presses spacebar:

+ On spacebar pressed

+ For Each Element

+ Array.CurrentValue greater than 100

: Array: set value at X,Y,Z:

Array.CurrentX

Array.CurrentY

Array.CurrentZ

to 100.

'For Each Element' repeats the event for every element in the array. Under the 'For each' expressions you'll find Array.CurrentValue (the value of the current element being tested), Array.CurrentX, Array.CurrentY and Array.CurrentZ (the indices of the current element).

Does this help?