thanks i will look at the example and read up on arrays!

Hello!

in my project at the start of each level i spawn sprites called "Citizen" with the text variables "FirstName" and "LastName".

i was wondering how to get and randomly assign a "FirstName" and "LastName" from a list of names i have compiled.

Searching the forums and tutorials it seems this would be best accomplished with XML files but i dont understand exactly how and maybe there is a better way?

help please!

Link to .capx file (required! If link is blocked remove the http and www parts):

dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/65114700/buttonbug.rar

Steps to reproduce:

1. create a button

2. make it invisible but enabled

3. make an on click button event that plays a sound

Observed result:

no sound play when you mouse click or tap with touch on the invisible button.

it is possible to use other events to play sound when clicking/tapping the invisible button (on touched object play sound) but that will always play the sound even if the button is disabled.

Expected result:

sounds should play when you click on the location of an enabled button even if its invisible. (worked in previous versions of construct2)

Browsers affected:

Chrome: yes

Firefox: ??

Internet Explorer: yes

Operating system & service pack:

windows 8.1

Construct 2 version:

r159

Here is a working example with zooming and scrolling:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5426011/examples16/pinchzoom.capx

I used two layers and only scale layer 1. layer 0 I used to get the touch positions used for zooming. If I scaled the layout instead zooming became very unstable.

thanks rojo, exactly what i was looking for! =D

btw, is there anyway to set max zoom, so that you cant zoom outside layout or super close?

Hello openfocus.

This is purely speculative, as I haven't messed with pinch-style controls yet, but I imagine you could save the point touched on the screen to a variable and measure the difference in a 'system tick' event.

It doesn't look like there's a way to measure two touch events at the same time, though. If only one can be tracked, it might be tricky; with X increasing right and Y increasing down, you might be able to measure just the X/Y position to determine if it's a pinch or spread motion.

I'll be curious if you get a demo of this working!

yeah, thats exactly what im trying to do =) but i just cant figure out the variables and the events..

ok so ive been looking around the forums but havent found an elegant solution to pinch to zoom without plugins.

sort of what i want to do:

create object at touchpoint 1

create object at touchpoint 2

measure distance between object 1 and 2

this distance is "X"

if distance becomes greater than X (objects moving away) then zoom in

if distance becomes less X (objects moving closer) then zoom out

zoom speed could be whatever, just not snapping.

would this work and could someone help please =)

nope, actually i could not; recreated the situation which particles were spawned in a new project without using any plugins and the "blinking particle" bug went away...

tried to clean away plugins from first project but that did not eliminate the bug

EDIT:

false alarm, bug is now back in clean project capx

i get the same error

capx

awesome plugin!

one "problem" though; i want the bullets to fire at an angle of weapon.angle + random(X,-X)degrees from the weapon but if the weapon changes its angle while firing, so will the bullets mid-flight =(

anyway to get around that or like add a "spread" variable to the weapon?

thanks!

EDIT:

think i fixed it, changed from "set angle" to "set bullet angle of motion to bullet.angle + random(10, -10) degrees

thanks, will check out the tutorials!

1. is it possible to randomly pick the sprite in a particle effect?

example: i want a "snowing" particle effect that everytime it creates a new sprite randomly picks 1 out of X snowflake sprites.

2. how do i make the sprites in a particle to start rotating when they are created?

thanks!

awesome, thanks!