I would just use a separate layer for the UI elements. Then when you don't need them you just hide that layer. Helps me when working in the editor as well, I can lock that layer and make it invisible in the editor and not worry about it when adding in tiles.

Then I just have a template layout that I start each level layout from that has the UI layer built in.

If later on in a different level you decide you need to tweak the UI, then just modify the UI layer for that particular level.

My slider is not working properly. It treats the middle of the slider as the end.

I followed the logic from the FAQ exactly so I'm not sure where the error is.

dl.dropbox.com/u/54560475/issues.capx

The slider is under Options.

Awesome thank you so much!

Here is the .capx dl.dropbox.com/u/54560475/issues.capx

The problem area is at the end of the Game Event Sheet.

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I've been trying to use Go to layout(by name) for quite a while and I have not been able to get it to work.

I have a layout called "2". When the player reaches the end of level 1 the global variable CurrLevel is set to the integer 2.

Then in the Go to layout(by name) field I've tried:

"" & CurrLevel

"CurrLevel"

str(CurrLevel)

None of these work. I know the code itself is executing because it works fine when I just use Go to layout and select from the drop down.

Any help on this small issue?

I may have found a solution. I used imgur.com/qqZHxD0

Just gave the Save Button a variable and made it true if the load went through.

Seems to be working, although I have to admit my game is still doing funky things so hard to be sure.

That would be great, Ashley.

Any thoughts on how to deal with this in the mean time?

My event sheet for my save/load screen looks like imgur.com/UdtEGm7

I would like to add another sub-event for when that save does not exist. If that is the case then I would want to send the player to the first level layout.

Any ideas on how to check if the save is there?

That was my thinking as well, Ashley.

Does Construct 2 support nested data structures?

Can I have a dictionary where the values are an array or even more useful another dictionary?

I've been thinking about using a dictionary to deal with storing values in my game. I would then save this as a JSON in Webstorage and Load it as a JSON at the start of the game to allow saving in the game. However, I can only find information about people using arrays for this purpose. Not to say I can't figure out how to apply this to dictionaries (seems pretty straight forward) but I'm worried that there is a reason no one is using dictionaries.

Is it a smarter practice to use an array for storing values (level progress) that will be saved and loaded from WebStorage?

Thank you.

Hi,

Here is this capx I'm having issues with

dropbox.com/sh/7af8eovvvzmr1yp/WZFNgM-gFL/birdgame.capx

For some reason the balloons stop spawning after 3 or 4 times?

I can't figure out why this would work a few times, but stop towards the end?

Any clues or suggestions?

Thank you

Ah of course, thank you!