Will the DIV work with Google crawling? I figure it would as it's not Iframe content but part of the HTML for the page though I am not 100%.

Thanks for taking this project and further expanding it as you have done, I only just stumbled on this now and it's really great work!!

Nevermind, I just saw another topic that directly asks for information about creating text for the sole purpose of creating a website and currently staff are turning a blind eye to this wide open arena that could be theirs for the taking with only minor improvements.

Sad really, but that's life, we find something and focus on it and don't see the possibilities for expansion.

I will continue on and find the best work around here that I can and will let you know what I get. (you being anyone that reads this).

So far my plan is to use this Iframe plugin as I think it will let me embed a properly constructed html page inside of my construct site.. downside is that if it's an I-Frame, chances are the content in it won't be picked up by Google crawlers.

contrary to the negativity experienced from the developers of this software, I'm having a lot of success creating a great website with this.

Best alternatives are Dreamweaver + Adobe Edge Animator

And honestly even IF i had the money to buy the latest versions of both of these once edge goes fully live commercial... I would prefer to still build sites in Construct 2.

All construct 2 needs to turn it into an amazing website software far superior to anything that Dreamweaver and Edge can offer are :

• Proper alignment and distribution tools.

• An officially supported DIV plugin that works with the Scale Letterbox setting and allows you to enter new content directly over the canvas.

*currently the existing 3rd party plugin does work but it jiggles around a bit kind of like shifting sand in an earthquake*

With those minor upgrades, you will have no problems with Google crawling your website AND I gotta say, I'm rebuilding a site I made using a combination of Dreamweaver and Edge...    What I had done took about 2 weeks using the professional grade software and it's taken me roughly 3 days to surpass all my efforts using construct.

People ask why you would want to use construct 2 for websites.. just look at the facts...

It's far superior for workflow and you can quickly generate some amazing results. Time is our most valuable asset and I'm not interested in wasting mine on professional software that does not perform to the same standard as Construct already can in the same duration of time.

I can imagine that these upgrades I have mentioned would be useful for other purposes within construct than just website creation as well.

Say you want to make an interactive story book... No longer do you have to use the space bar 100 times just to bump texxt to the next line.. you simply use a < b >

I found a plugin that allows you to add in DIV tags but it does not scale properly AND the text is only selectable with Control + A

I would like google to be able to crawl my website if possible so this isn't an ideal solution.

Perhaps someone else has created a new plugin that goes under a different name then what all my search attempts thus far have uncovered.

Also, I note that there is a text box objext that can be added which looks like text can be selected with it.. though

I don't know if you can make the background transparent and get rid of the border.

I'm also not sure if you can modify alignment and change font sizes for various lines of text etc..

Perhaps someone has made a very basic text creation behaviour that will allow me to add text and basic html formatting to it.

How do I make text selectable when viewed in a browser.

I want it so that when someone views my HTML5 exported project that they can copy text from the "game" and paste it wherever they want.

Currently all text appears to be locked as if it were part of the background.

I'm building a website using construct 2 so yeah... that will probably explain why I want the text to be selectable.

any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks,

Jax

Jax ? Didn't my post fix it ?Unfortunately it did not, though I do appreciate the effort that you made to help get things up and running. Sadly, we were up against an odd situation that unless you know how the OR Block is meant to function, would not have known why unexpected results were occurring.

I've been running into some issues with the OR Block.

I keep going to use it like a traditional OR statement to save time from creating duplicate action events with different condition triggers.

Is it possible that the current OR Block be renamed to Conditional OR Block

and then have a traditional OR statement added to the program that functions as a normal OR statement please.

That makes sense as far as, I now understand why the script does not work though it's not a genuine OR statement based on my previous programming experiences.

In normal OR statements, the actions are all performed as long as one of the possible events that can trigger them are true.

As pointed out the only work around to achieve a true OR statement seems to be creating 2 identical actions but with separate condition events.

thanks again for the further explanation, I might post a reply in that forum topic that you linked in your post relating to the Or Block and see if they are able to make the following adjustment :

Traditional OR Block (works as normal or statements do

Conditional Or Block (works the same way as the current or block)

It's working as intended actually according to this:

http://www.scirra.com/FORUM/r91-or-block-and-picking_topic52579_post330550.html#330550

The 'mouse cursor over downlight_1' condition being false means that no downlight_1's are picked. You could have it like this:

<img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8367729/construct/pics/orPicking.png" border="0" />

I'm not sure that I follow what you mean so I'll try my best to describe what I think you are saying is happening.

Because the mouse is not over Downlight_1, it completely ignores the other possible event that can trigger this action ** the light switch variable = 1.

If that's true, then this Or block does not function like a standard OR argument as in my mind an or argument should react :

If mouse cursor is not over Downlight 1 or if light switch variable does not = 1 then do not perform the corresponding actions, however if either of these 2 conditions are met, then perform all corresponding actions triggered by this event.

that's a very strange usage of the Or argument. I'm not quite sure why it would be needed to operate like this if what I'm re-stating is accurate.

Thank you for confirming this. I think that will be my best work around as well.

If I get a chance and someone else has not stated otherwise then I will post this as a bug so that others do not have to lose their hair haha.

Appologies for the quad post but I have now removed the extra plugins from it so this file linked to THIS post is a vanilla install of construct 2 latest version. It still shows the same bug and I have now got the variable in question displaying and updating on every tick.

As you can see, whilst on every tick the text field updates what it shows, the visible / invisible property on the Downlight_1 does not.

therefore either this is a bug in the software where only some elements update when variables their properties rely upon change or it's just not making sense.

temp-share.com/show/dPf3gjo5W%20

I do not want to post this as a bug just yet in case (as annoying as it may be) this is how the software was intended to function. I understand that functioning like this will not burden resources scanning for changes every tick but at the same time, how else can this be fixed so it achieves my intended result.