I don't think there's a buildin way to do what you requested. But by using some of the text expressions you could invent your own method to achieve this with events.

I cooked up an example for you:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2306601/wildcards.cap

Enter the string you want tested in the editbox and click on the compare button. It will return either true or false. The text object named "Rule" holds your compare string with the wildcard characters (I used "$" as a wildcard). I'm sure this isn't the most elegant way to do this, but it appears to work fine.

I'm using a loop and some expressions. Seeing that this is your first post, I hope you can make sense of it all. You can always look up stuff on the Construct wiki.

And welcome to the community! Great avatar you have there...

Hehe, i know that

My question was about locking layers from event sheet editor (as an action).

Locking layers is relevant for editing the layout in Construct. Whether a layer is hidden or locked makes no difference for the runtime. So of course there's no action for it.

What exactly are you trying to achieve? Maybe we could help out with more information at hand.

Sounds like a classic job for the timeline object.

What newt said. And to give you a little rough example that works with shapes like you wanted:

Slider Fun

This file needs at least Construct version 0.99.7

Tracks can be horizontal or vertical which is indicated by a private variable 'orientation' which you have to set accordingly to "ver" or "hor". Also the sliders have a PV which indicates if they're being used atm. The events should explain themselves for the most part (I hope). If anything remains unclear feel free to ask.

Oh and welcome to the community Fade!

I was looking at the Hash table and a little confused how it works. I have done them with code but this looks a little different.

Well as the object description states: "Stores values under named keys." There's not much more to it really.

David gives a pretty good practical example here:

http://www.scirra.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2478

At long last, sprite-based text is finally here! 100% through events.

Actually it has been done before. Quite some time ago:

http://www.scirra.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1995

I was a bit surprised that although it's more than a year old by now, it still seems to work with recent Construct versions.

Kind of, there is the "every x miliseconds" object. Using it you can make something wait.

I will give an example with psuedo code.

Player presses "Space"

Player.value('iswaiting') == 1

if player.value('iswaiting') == 1

Every 100 miliseconds

player.value('waittime') + 1

If player.value('waittime') == 10

player.value('iswaiting') ==0

player.value('waittime') == 0

perform wanted action

Basically, there are two variables. The one that tells the game if the event needs to wait, and the one that tells how long it needs to wait. Every amount of time tell the game to add one to the waiting time variable, when it equals lets say... ten, that is 10x. If x=100 then that is 1000 miliseconds you have waited, or one second. That is the only way I know how to do it however. I hope this helps.

Instead of doing all that, why not just call a function after delay? You know the Function object?

Function object on the wiki

thanks, that may help as long as wait object is improved

I'd suggest you just use the most recent version of Construct. It doesn't make much of a difference if it's marked stable or not. Version 0.99.84 is being used by many people here on the forum and it shouldn't be considered less stable than 0.99.62. Don't get too hung up on formalities.

The first proper Construct online game ever?!! Pretty big deal! Thanks for that scidave!

I just hope it's not too hard to incorporate the Python code for this. Looking forward to your tutorial!

I find in this forum how to make a progress bar (viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4893&p=38880&hilit=health+bar#p38880), how to make a timer (using the behaviour timer), but i don't know how to link this two things together.

I don't think it's possible directly through the timer behavior, since it's missing an expression to retrieve the timer progress. The Timeline object should be good for this, as there is an expression just for that. And I would link you to an example cap too, but when I just tested it the timeline progress would always return 0. So that appears broken to me right now.

You could still get the same effect with variables or by manipulating the width of the progress bar directly or even by using the system timer expression. For example if you always subtracted 10% of the max width of the bar and multiplied that by timedelta (obj.width + X * Timedelta), it would take exactly 10 seconds for that bar to reach 0. And would therefore be like using a 10 second timer to decrease the width.

I just started this today so I don't have a lot done yet, but I wanted to thank PixelRebirth for the catapult example .cap that he posted a few weeks ago.

I wasn't sure what I was doing wrong with "hinge" but after seeing your .cap I was able to fix the problem. Thanks!

I'm just using placeholders for now until I get more of the engine finished, but if you've ever played "Kitten Cannon" then this should be familiar. The goal of the game is to get your projectile to go as far as it can.

I only have trampolines added so far but there will be several other objects that either help or hinder your efforts to get the best distance. These objects will be randomly generated (once I've gotten that far), so every time you launch it will be a bit different.

(p.s. you can launch the projectile in the air a little bit and then hit it with the catapult, almost like hitting a baseball with a bat... sometimes it gets better distance than just launching far, sometimes not)

Sounds like a nice minigame concept to me. Once you got rid of the placeholders and added a few features this could be worthwhile playing. Looking foward to your further progress!

Runs fine. Does that exe crash for you?

Nope, it still crashes.

"An unexpected error occurred an the application was terminated.

You may be able to find out more information about the crash by Debuggining, and attempting to reproduce the bug."

When debugging however, nothing shows up except for a black screen.

EDIT:

Okay, so when I open the .cap and run it without changing anything it works, but as soon as I add a new sprite and snap it to the player hitbox it starts crashing again.

Example:

http://junk.drule.net/sven_2.cap

Don't know what to say, still doesn't crash for me. I set the position of the seahorse head to the player sprite as well. I even added another sprite doing the same. But no crashes for me!