Hello,

I'm setting up a linguistic experimental task with Construct 2. At the beginning, I have a layout with 2 pages of instructions (you can try it out here : lamarque.lpl-aix.fr/).

The first page is just text, you can click the "suivant" button (= "next"). On the second page, I want to display an instruction video. So I recreated a very simple video player. Everything is functionnal except one thing: the slider bar I used to show the progression of the video. Here is what I did :

When the video is paused, it works perfectly. The problem is when the video is playing, I cannot use the slider bar dynamically to jump to a specific time of the video. From what I understand, it is because event 12 will always immediately "erase" event 13. I have tried many combinations to avoid that issue, but I am out of ideas. If anybody can help me, that would be very appreciated.

Hey! Thanks for helping me again. See, I made use of the csv plug in you suggested to me before!

The files are about 250MB and I have three of them. So that would be a loooot of different parts. And I guess the thing would still be slow as hell in the end.

I guess I'll look into MySQL. Sounds like a better option for that purpose.

The TEST.txt is just a silly example. The data in there is just nonsense. See letters as nominal data and "swag" and "awesomeness" as numerical data. I could have named them "characteristic 1" to "characteristic 5" with random characters/numbers in the cells.

So with your second method, I do not need to create an empty text file on my server right?

For some reason I can't make it work. I think it's because php files don't have the authorization to write on my server or something like that.

I will check that with the I.T guy of my lab and try again ^^

Thanks anyway !

Just out of curiosity. What part of the php code deals with the creation of a new file if there is no matching file name on the server ? Is it just how "fopen" works ? Then why do you need to create in advance a text.txt file with the first method ?

Unfortunately, adding "wait 0" did not change a thing. But thanks for trying.

I'll consider making my own buttons.

Thanks again.

Hi all,

I have a linguistic experiment I created in Construct 2 and hosted here:

lpl-aix.fr/~lamarque

It's about choosing 1 of 4 ways to abbreviate loanwords in Japanese. So I have one button for each abbreviation strategy. After each answer given. The buttons' positions are randomized. I don't want the focus to stay on the clicked button, otherwise, when starting a new question, the same button, even if it moved, will be highlitghted. This can have an influence on people's answers. So I want to avoid that.

Of course, I simply added an event like "when 'button' is clicked, set 'button' unfocused". And it works perfectly fine on all browsers but IE and Edge...

As long as the mouse doesn't move, the focus will stay on the button.

The event sheet for this part looks like that (I disabled everything that is irrelevant to the answer buttons'behaviors):

Anybody has an idea why IE and Edge work differently than the rest ?

Yes! Thanks! I wanted to do this kind of things at first.

But if I have a single .txt file, won't every player erase the data from the previous player? Is there a way to prevent this ? Have several files ? Have each player's data be written after the previous player's data in the same file?

Anyway. I'm satisfied with my e-mail solution. I'm just asking out of curiosity. So if you don't already know the solution, don't think about it too much :)

Hello,

Thank you very much for your help. In the end, I managed to solve my problem using the e-mail sending tutorial above.

Now I get all my data perfectly fine, sent directly in an e-mail :D

Oh, sorry about the add-on. Here goes the .capx without the smart random:

drive.google.com/open

The data I need all fits in a dictionary (with about 200 keys/values). If I can get the informations of that dictionary in any way. That would be great.

(regarding my initial problem, the tech guy from my lab told me the problem was caused by the "~" in the URL I'm hosting the game to. It's a rewriting of the actual URL (which is not usable either). He thinks he can solve that.)

Sorry for the double post. I have made some good progress on my project, but I'm still stuck on getting data from the game to be saved... anyhow.

So my experiment is fully fonctional now, but I still don't know how to get the answers back from my participants.

I have considered having them sent by e-mail. So I tried to follow this tutorial : scirra.com/tutorials/4897/sending-an-email-from-construct2

It's even a simpler version of it since the e-mail adress to send to, and the subject would be the same everytime. But it doesn't work for me.

I must admit I'm copying things blindly without understanding what I'm doing. So maybe I did something wrong.

In this .capx I tried to send a test message "hello world" to my professional e-mail address (I changed it for a fake example before making the .capx file). But it seems nothing is sent.

drive.google.com/open

My experiment is hosted here : lpl-aix.fr/~lamarque

And the .php file I uploaded is this one : drive.google.com/open

Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong ?

By the way, I don't actually care in what way I get the data back. If anybody has a better solution to get (text) informations back from a player, I will gladly try it.

Thank in advance

Oh ! That sounds neat !

The explanations were a bit complex for me, and in the end I'll end up with a lot of text instances (be it generated by the plug-in or manually), so I decided to do it manually this time. But I'm glad to know this plug-in exists.

Oh... too bad it did not work. Can you tell me what you tried ? If it's just a matter of permissions, maybe I can get around that ?

Anyway, since my verb generator is done (thanks to your help) and those questions about servers are unrelated, I made a new topic on my other project with more detailed questions. If you want to have a look at it : construct.net/forum/construct-2/how-do-i-18/how-do-i-save-a-csv-file-to-my-137535