Video

Missing expression checks - Even though you can check whether a video object is in a current state such as muted, paused etc as an event. These options seems to not be available as expressions in the video section. If you use a "Compare two variables" it would make sense that these were also there, since its actually possible to check vs them as events. At the moment only 3 are available (Duration, PlaybackTime, Volume) so if (Has ended, Is muted, Is paused, Is playing) were there as well it would be nice.

Source - Would be nice if you could get the source. Both filename and path to the file. And if there are no source it could just return -1.

Its a bug in C2 it seems. Pretty weird one, but I guess its because of the type of variable that is used by the global number and it probably goes out of range or something like that. For instant if you add 18 "1" it changes the last two numbers to 00 instead of 1's. And if you add 19 "1" the last 3 are changes to "200" inside C2 You should post this in the bug section, it doesn't have anything to do with your code.

NWjs

Run external program - When there are spaces in the path it seems to cause problems. Since you have to execute the program using the syntax """C:\Test program\test.exe""". However this wont work if you read the path from a file or a variable, without having to make some weird work around. The only way to make it work as I see it, is to add a variable like: SpaceVar = """"" and add it to the file path, like so: "Run Application = SpaceVar & Filepath & SpaceVar".

Would be handy if you could either read the path directly from a file or you could write it to a variable without this workaround.

Still weird you cant draw 2d shapes in C2, being a 2D game engine and all, its a bit funny, that it cant draw 2d shapes. I think

Anyway, your problem is not uncommon I think and personally I would try to see if you could use the video functionality to do it. Even though it also have its problems, it might be better for performance.

Your captain have the solid behavior, so it get stucked on it self, you have to remove that behaviour then it works. Also i would highly recommend that you organize your events, its pretty messy and will cause you problems later on with 100% certainty

Most likely because it cant find a path, try to add a "Fail to find path" and see if that triggers.

This post is not aimed towards a single object type, but just in general when using different objects, it gets a bit frustrating that some things are missing which should be there in my opinion. As these are "minor" things you tend to forget them, so ill add them here as I find them and hopefully they will be added at some point.

Objects:

Video

Frame rate - Would be great if you could get the frame rate of the video.

Number of frames - Self explanatory, but the number of frames in the video.

Format - there are other ways to get this, but would be handy if you could just get the format through a variable (Less important).

Check vs Frame rate / Playbacktime - For some reason there are no way to check vs this.

Play at FPS - Play a video at a certain fps, so you can make slow motion and fast forward.

File chooser

Path - There are no way to get the path to a file on local disk. Which is strange since you can get the filename.

NWjs

Filename - Opposite the File chooser object you can get the path including the filename, but there are no way as far as I can see that you can get just the filename.

Sprite

Add frame - Add a blank frame to a sprite

Delete frame - Delete frame at index

Insert frame - Insert frame at index

Replace frame - Replace frame at index

Fill frame - Fill frame with a certain color at index

Erase frame - Erase frame at index

Ahh ok that cool, ill just keep an eye out for it. thanks

Problem Description

Pinning textboxes while using drag drop behaviour on a sprite or 9-patch will cause the text to "fall" out of the textbox.

Attach a Capx

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Description of Capx

Two textbox pinned to a 9-patch with drag drop

Steps to Reproduce Bug

Drag 9-patch Observed Result Text falls out of textbox.

Expected Result Well.... Affected Browsers
• Chrome: (YES and NW.js)
• FireFox: (Don't know)
• Internet Explorer: (NO) But the textboxes are all over the place, trying to keep up with the 9-patch, but the text stays in place.

Operating System and Service Pack

Windows 7

Construct 2 Version ID

r197

Would it be possible to expand this or add an additional action that add the image to the animation rather than replacing it?

Because at the moment you have to do some really silly work around to make it able to read an image file from the disk through NW.JS as it keeps overwriting the current frame, which means that if you don't know how many you need, lets say you were making a light box application for instant, you have to add a lot of empty frames and cycle through them, when adding new images so they don't get overwritten all the time.

Alternatively maybe an action that could add an empty frame to a sprite or just duplicate the last one or something like that.

Cheers

ok I see your points, appreciated, thanks for that

There are no easy way to do it in C2, at least that I know of. But there are lots of way you could go about it regardless.

For instant what I can just think of might be the easiest is to make a dummy sprite. Then right before you have to check for LOS you set dummy position to the to the target position and then you store the UID of the target Fighter with the dummy so you can easily pick it again later should you need it. Then you check LOS vs the dummy instead.

Or you can do it the other way around which is probably even better, set the dummy to the one you want to check LOS for, and then do a:

Dummy.Test_UID = Fighter.UID

Fighter.UID <Not equal> Dummy.Test.UID //That will select all fighters except the one you want to check LOS for.

Dummy check LOS to Fighters

That is two ways to go about it, the last one is probably the best one in my opinion.