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- dop2000
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- 22 Sep, 2018
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Set s to InputBox.text

Set s to uppercase(left(s,1)) & right(s, len(s)-1)
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- dop2000
- - Joined 26 May, 2016
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- 22 Sep, 2018
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You need to do this in "On start of the layout" event. Currently you re-pin these sprites on every tick, that's why it's not working.

Also, some of your ball sprites have collisions disabled and overlapping check will not work with them.

Finally, why are you using Construct 3 runtime for this game? It doesn't even support debug mode.
- dop2000
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- 21 Sep, 2018
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Yes, create an event "System -> Compare two values -> timescale not equal 0"
- dop2000
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- 20 Sep, 2018
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"On start of layout" is triggered only once and lasts one tick. You need a repeating event, like "One every tick" or "Every X seconds".
- dop2000
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- 19 Sep, 2018
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find() expression searches for a substring in a string and returns its position if found, or -1 if not. For example find("abcdef", "def") should return 3.

You can use other text expressions - left(), mid() etc.

See manual:

scirra.com/manual/126/system-expressions
- dop2000
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If you have several layouts that use the same event sheet, you can try LayoutName expression:

System -> Compare two values -> layoutName="whatever"
- dop2000
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This JSON has a complex structure, you can't load it into an array/dictionary, even if you fix the header format.

There are several addons for Construct 2 that allow to work with complex JSON, but I don't know if any of them were ported to C3.
- dop2000
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Just a few days ago I made a tutorial on sending data from Construct to Google Spreadsheet, hope it helps:

scirra.com/tutorials/9704/sending-data-from-construct-23-to-google-spreadsheet
- dop2000
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You can't test item overlapping with another item, because "Item On drop" event picks just one instance of item object. You need to create a family, add Item object into it and do this:
- dop2000
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Add two instance variables startX and startY. On start of the layout or when the object is created set startX to object.x, startY to object.y

When you need to return the object to initial position, set its position to (self.startX, self.startY)
- dop2000
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Yes, you can do this:
- dop2000
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If papersA family is a 'clone' of Paper sprite, then you did it almost right! Simply define the pointValue variable on the family (remove it from the sprite). Then you'll be able to do Paper add (PapersA.PointValue) to PointValue

Otherwise your approach is correct.

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If you already have lots of other events where you reference PointValue variable, see this tutorial on how to move it easily to the family level:

scirra.com/tutorials/535/how-to-upgrade-an-object-to-a-family