dop2000

Thank you for the reply. You saved me a lot of time!

I have a few objects with the Anchor Behavior. Anchor Behaviors have a default setting of Left Edge: Viewport Left. I adjust their settings to Left Edge:Viewport Right. When I jump to another layout, the same objects revert back to their default setting Left Edge:Viewport Left.

These objects are in different positions in each layout, so I don't think that making a layer set to global will help because of changing positions of the objects between each layout.

Is there a way to have my Anchor settings "stick" from one layout to another? I have 30 layouts, so it is getting tedious to find each instance of an object and adjusting the anchor setting over and over again when I just did the process in the previous layout.

Appreciate any thoughts in advance.

El Constructorr

Awesome, that worked! I have been plugging away without an incident since your updates and instructions. I do have one lingering question however -

I have been trying to insert bb code line breaks [ br ][ /br ] in the body of text to break up lines the way I want them to look. (A certain sentence on line 1 (break) Next sentence on line 2, etc.) The reason why is the function reads text to the very end of the textbox. Only when the text word touches the boundary of the textbox it wraps it to the next line. I am trying to avoid that to make it look cleaner for animation of the typewriter function by forcing bb code line breaks. However, it doesn't seem to be working. (This could easily be user error on my part.)

I found two workarounds:

Workaround 1: I copy and paste my text into a Wordpad doc. Then, I arrange each line the way I want them presented. After that, I copy the Wordpad text and put it back into the Function parameter field. That seems to do the trick. I guess Wordpad is forcing an invisible line break without me having to code it? No idea, but it seems to work.

Workaround 2: I add a ton of spaces to break up each line I want broken to the next line. This makes the function read all of the spaces and "force" to go to the next line and continue writing.

I would much rather "code" it correctly over the gum and shoestring options I outlined above. However, this is not showstopping production killer by any means.

Your functions rock and I would consider this a minor inconvenience. I am curious what your thoughts are on it.

El Constructorr

So far so good! I have been making my way through your example and testing it on my project. Thank you very much for the clear explanations! I think I had a user error on my part, I was trying to implement UID on my project and I must have been using the wrong event sheet. This time through it appears to be working fine.

I do have another snag though - I can't seem to write anything in quotation marks within the function. I don't understand why.

Earlier when I was attempting to play with BBcode I ran into this problem - this forum post fixed it:

construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/how-do-i-8/text-typewriter-using-157393

However, using that example in the function parameters it ignores any attempts at using quotation marks. What am I missing? I attached the project back with my question. I am scratching my head on this one. I used double quotations to fix it? Does bbcode behave differently inside of a function?

file is here:

my.pcloud.com/publink/show

El Constructorr

Understood about being swamped with your current projects. I figured it was worth a shot to see about your availabilty.

Welp, I managed to break your code. Ugh! I tried to bring your code into my existing project (as your other versions) and I could not tweak it to talk to my project this time around. I suspect it is all about the UID. This UID thing went over my head.

To give you an idea -

My project has 32 pages - each page has a body of text that changes to tell the story. When I brought your code in I could not figure out how to tweak the individual page text box's UID to sync up with your code per page. So, I deleted the instance variables talking to UID in your project, and I got it to work again. I really want to understand the thinking behind UID and tried to read up on it, but it doesn't seem easy to tweak. Then again, I'm not a programmer.

Overall, Your code works awesome as it has since the first iteration, but I did come across another issue. I tweaked your C3 file (attached) to "somewhat" resemble my project in a barebones sense. You'll see that I have two pages now to simulate going to a new page, etc. If you go to page two, then decide to go back to page 1, you'll see that the textbox actually truncates and ignores the first part of what needs to be written for page 1, and starts typing mid sentence instead of starting at the beginning of the paragraph.

To replicate: Go to page 2, then hurry back to page 1 (don't waste any time, just click), and you'll see what I mean (hopefully). Also, as a test on page 1 - I set up "on Function Typewriter Finished/Create/Purple Sprite. When I go to page two, it still creates the sprite. Not sure why since I am on page 2. I don't have the function "on Function Typewriter finished" on Page 2's event sheet but still creates it?

Thanks again for your suggestion. I enjoy learning different perspectives on how to tackle this issue.

Project example here:

my.pcloud.com/publink/show

savvito123 Thanks for the reply. So, there is no way to actually pause the typewriter. It either plays all the way or it starts over from your experience?