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  • Can you try to substitute the text objects with spritefonts and see if there is a difference in behavior?

    Looks like a canvas overlay type of thing.

  • You can use system expressions and check TextInput.Text for occurences.

    Let TextInput.Text be "cool guy :D"

    Option 1)

    find(Text,Find) will find you a string inside another string.

    So find(TextInput.Text,";") should return -1.

    Option 2)

    The system expression tokencount will return the number of tokens in a string

    tokencount(TextInput.Text,";") should return 0.

    Option 3)

    The system expression tokenat returns the Nth token from a string, hence -1 if no occurence.

    tokenat(TextInput.Text,";") should therefore return -1.

    If one of the methods matches its condition, clear Textinput

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  • Can you share an example file?

  • For 1:

    On start of layout:

    Repeat len(text) times:

    Create object "spaceblank" at (30 + loopindex * 32, 32) - you have to adjust the offset positions according to your layout and object sizes.

    For 2:

    The letter supposed to go there for each letter space is: mid(Text, spaceblank.IID, 1)

  • When importing sounds, there is a drop down list on the right upper corner of the popup window that allows you to change the bitrate. Default is 96 kbps. (R153)

  • You can play sounds and give them tags. Like this, you can also check if a sound with a given tag is playing or in your case, isn't playing.

    Like:

    -> On object clicked (or on drag start if it's drag & drop behavior)

    X Is "sound" playing (inverted condition, so is "sound" not playing)

    : Play "mysound" with tag "sound".

    Tip: you can invert conditions either with right click - > Invert or use the keyboard shortcut "i".

  • Not sure if I get the intended mechanics then... mind sharing a sample project?

  • You can also use choose("shoot1", "gun2", "firerocket_01")

    in case your sound files don't match a common nomenclature.

    Pro tip:

    Create a custom built-in function. "Play audio"

    Create some parameters e.g. soundname, posx, posy, volume

    On "play audio" : Audio: Play sample "soundname" at position "posx, "posy", volume: "volume"

    Then you can use the function in any point of your event sheets and have a common method to play sounds.

    E.g.

    -> On bullet collides with player: Call function "Play audio". soundname = choose("hit1","hit2"), posx = player.x, posy = player.y, volume = 0

  • Try:

    Every tick: System: Scroll to object (choose your player object)

  • Try to do the following:

    -> On object clicked

    Pick top object ( on the object's conditions) : Do stuff

  • Can you be a bit more specific?

    There is a built-in action on the Local Storage object "Clear local storage".

    Did you try to fire that and it doesn't work, or is it something else?

  • If I follow through your logic, your code behaves as expected.

    To clarify, let's keep track of a pseudo game time: 0 seconds (gt 0s) and indent the steps

    1) Sprite at 0,50 is created (gt 0s)

    2) Wait 2 seconds (gt 0s)

    3) Call function (gt 2s)

    4) Create object at 50,50 (gt 2s)

    5) Wait 2 seconds (gt 2s)

    6) Create object at 100,50 (gt 4s)

    7) Wait 2 seconds (gt 2s)

    8) Create object at 150,50 (gt 2s)

    9) Wait 2 seconds (gt 2s)

    10) Create object at 200,50 (gt 4s)

    Now let's check which objects get created at which "game time".

    gt 0s: object at 0,50

    gt 2s: object at 50,50 , object at 150,50

    gt 4s: object at 100,50 , object at 200,50

    Also ction 8) is fired immediately when the function is called.

    Construct runs the events sequentially through each event branch. As dop200 indicated, since 8) is not a sub-event and therefore will get fired right away, not caring about the wait in the action block above it.

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