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  • Noah Gengo yes its very simple to find with hindsight.

    the point is, I'm not a rookie programmer that doesn't know where to look or doesn't want to work at finding things.

    I did find the answer to my issue but only after 15-20 mins of searching the forums. If Doc's search was working as expected it would have taken 1 minute to have the answer.

    The issue was:

    -I didn't exactly know what I was looking for.

    -I knew there was a problem, but I didn't actually know what the problem was.

    -My instinct was to look up Set Color to confirm what it does, but it wasn't in the first search result so I just assumed search was broken so why would I bother looking at the other results? so I moved on to searching for causes of the problem, no longer even looking at 'set color'.

    It's easy to judge things after the fact, and you probably should not do that. Thanks.

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  • yes, this would be great!

  • Ashley yes that makes sense -- which is why I put double quotes around the "set color" thinking that it was searching on that exact phrase. But it seems it ignores the double quotes? For example, on the old scirra.com it would return much better results: https://www.scirra.com/manual/search?q=%22set%20color%22

  • pretty cool!

  • dop2000 excellent! thank you for this, that will be a huge time saver!

  • dop2000 Ashley

    if you go to construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3 and type "set color". Nothing comes up. Then you assume its in System Actions because that is the first result. Then you do a CTRL-F and search for "set color" and again nothing. So I honestly looked for a good amount of time. I'm happy to learn the Set Color info is in the doc, but unhappy to know its not easily accessible. In fact, without that link, I don't exactly know how to get there.

    I prefer using google when searching for something here, for example:

    "set color" site:construct.net inurl:manuals

    I've been told many times to do my searches using Google that way; with that 'site' and 'inurl'. It's not going to happen, I've never used google that way and its extremely cumbersome for me. Not only do I always forget the syntax, but I've left that command-line style typing back in the 90s. Seems like that syntax could easily be added to the Construct search form no? Is there a reason the Construct Manual Search function is so terrible? Is it a lot of work to make 'search' perform as expected? It almost seems as if it's not indexed or something. Search doesn't seem to be going through all the branches.

  • mOOnpunk

    So i should set it to rgbEx(100,100,100)?

    I think the c3 manual needs updating as i can find no mention of "set color" in there. This info would be helpful.

    so YES --the answer for anyone searching high and low to find this information-- it resets back to the original sprite color when you do: Set Color rgbEx(100,100,100)

    This really is the annoying thing about these new forums... No one at Scirra is on Doc duty.. so you have to dig through the forums to get this info... it was okay in the past because the search function worked decently.. now its terrible. (it took me at least 15-20 mins to find this basic info about Set Color)

    For example go into the current C3 Doc and type "Set Color", you will literally find nothing, I can't find it anywhere in the current doc, let alone all this info about tinting. It's very frustrating.

  • dop2000 so did you go into your C2 project and make a spritefont object to replace each spritefont+?

    I have a mobile game that I completed in C2, it has about 20 spritefont+ objects that are animated/fade/effects that I haven't even touched it, but I would like to port it someday... sort of dreading the spritefont work though...

  • Asmodean ah excellent thanks!

  • I have this code: 

    Keyboard On SPACE pressed -> Browser Request Fullscreen
Keyboard On ESCAPE pressed -> Browser Close

    if I hit SPACE, game goes fullscreen, then ESCAPE, game goes back to windowed, hit ESCAPE again, game closes.

    if I hit F11, game goes fullscreen, then ESCAPE, game immediately close.

    is there a way to make the game do the latter and immediately close when hitting ESCAPE? (when hitting SPACE to make the game fullscreen and not F11?)

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  • 13spongg13 not sure what you are referring to regarding typos, I didn't mention anything about typos.

    there are many reasons for enums and bools, for me it's all about readability and being able to look at something months later and quickly get up to speed on what I was doing. It's also nice to be able to loop through enums.

    net-informations.com/java/basics/enum.htm

  • WackyToaster that works great thanks!

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