My explanation may be a bit confused I admit

"Then to set the marker, you would do Set Array at (Time, Place, CharID) to 1."

That's basically what I'm doing now. Yes I have set the size of array already but you're right I can change its size on demand. However I don't need this since I already know how much values I will store.

In the end it's working just fine so ... problem solved

I see your point in the second solution, and that's true I didn't think about using two arrays in C2 ! but all in all I don't find that using 2 arrays sounds more simple and or efficient because the only way it would have been more simple, would be a case I don't need to use IDs but strings.

Thanks for your help !

I understood in the end that arrays doesent work as in PHP since they need to be already defined.

I had to make a record of some people being present in some places at some time.

In PHP i would have done :

array[place][time][0] = first person

array[place][time][1] = second person

and so on

In C2, the tricky thing is that you can't use text keys in your array. So I had to set up an ID for each place and each character. In the end my array works like that

x = place ID

y = time

z = character ID

value = 1 if character is there, 0 if not.

Don't think there's an easy way to do it with dictionnary

HI !

I'd like to use an array to get multiple values on a 2 dimensional map.

I know I can set a single X,Y value : Set value at(X,Y) to (value)

or eventually several values on X,Y if I already have a Z value, like : Set value at (X,Y,Z)

But I'd like the Z value to be auto-incremental

as we should do in PHP

array[x][y][] = value 1

array[x][y][] = value 2

etc...

resulting in values at

[x][y][0] = first value on X,Y

[x][y][1] = second value on X,Y

So you can stack as many values as you want.

But the push and insert functions of Construct 2 just allows to "inserts a new 2D plane of elements", resulting in multiple insertions, and I just want to add one by one.

Is the only way is to count all the X,Y values so far then guess what my next Z value will be ?

Or eventually generate a random Z value big enough so matching will be (almost) impossible ? (wrong idea)

I hope I explained my problem clearly enough and that someone can help me with this !

Best

Actually you may be right. and I just deleted all my bookmarks to try this workaround.

Bookmarks can help you a little bit though

Search > Ctrl+F2 to place bookmarks > Esc to clear search > F2 to cycle through bookmarks, including your search results

Already tried this method, as you can imagine It has several inconvenients :

• you need to clean it afterwards. All in all, it's just not as fast as "remember line number+scroll to after clear".
• it messes up your real bookmarks, if you have some

I agree. The event filtering can be useful occasionally but most of the time it ends up confusing me.

I'd much rather use an 'ordinary' search which would just jump me to the searched string.

Exactly ! Simple jump, with buttons "next/previous found", as in most simple notepads. And eventually a list of bookmarks of all item founds in the project / folder, as in good developpement softwares

Hi Construct 2

Here's what I think about the search UI of Construct 2 ! Basically, each time I do a search, I lose 3 seconds to show the code around my search : type search, watch the line number, clear search filter, you're kicked to line 1, so you scroll back to the line number ... Repeating this hundreds of time a day while developping on Construct 2! Either i'm missing something (but I looked everywhere in the options), either I'm sharing this problem with many developpers on big projects and there could be very simple solutions, inspired from regular coding. And i'm pretty sure you all know how important search is, especially for big/huge projects ! I know you're already on Construct 3 and I hope these are already fixed .. But I share it anyway

• When you do a search, there's a filter on it. Please allow to search without filter : there's too often important code related to your search that is hidden ! It's major cause of mistakes when modifying while doing a research. A simple focus would be just fine !

• At least, when you clear the search filter, keep the focus on the line you're reading.

• Allow to search on every sheet. Splitting the code into sheets is great ! But sometimes you can't remember where you put something .. And you have to make a search in every single sheet.

I think these very simple features would make a huge time gain and comfort difference for any C2 developper

Best

Things to fix (new bugs added):

1/ Opacity not supported

2/ Outlines around Spine parts are showing, when there are other sprites in the scene loaded before it. (Maybe some thing to do with Alpha Blending, once activated for sprites , deactivated for the Spine object ?)

3/ 2D renderer not working (but there's some code about it in the plugin ?)

4/ the Spine shows at wrong place on screen when there's scroll involved (apparently the camera position of scrollTo is being ignored)

5/ Sometimes, strange things with the mirror function

Capx:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4BNmt ... sp=sharing

Unfortunately my tiny skills have reached their limits on those ones ! That would be so great is Spine was fully supported by C2 ! It is way more powerfull and professionnal than Spriter and would attract bigger projects. We need help on this one <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile">

1/ Opacity doesn't seem to be supported

2/ Also, does everyone got this bug ? If a Spine object is loaded at the same time or after a regular sprite in the scene, a small outline (of blur?) appear around every part of the spine puppet, making the result very dirty !

Only workaround found so far : load sprites after Spine objects ONLY - Spine object must be loaded on a blank scene to show correctly. Which makes Construct 2 pretty unusable !

Any theorical idea welcome, if I had a clue of a reason for this, I would have a look in the plugin.

(on the picture : line around mouth and arms are not supposed to show)

3/ Maybe, maybe 2D renderer would be a workaround (if it has to do with GL antialias, maybe?) but I discovered that the 2D renderer was not working at all (nothing is showing)

I figured out how to modify the plugin so you can choose your own refresh rate (just add the wanted rate in the refresh_rate value in the properties of the spine object) so it looks like it's not "interpolating" any more.

UPDATE :

17/09 - added "set mirrored" function

we noticed some bugs w/ the scale function too.

download my updated version of plugin :

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4BNmt ... sp=sharing

Hi ! I'm also interested in deactivating interpolation or change update rate so it doesnt look interpolated.

Does the plugin support things like scaling Spine objects yet ?

Edit : answer to self : I tried the pluing with the example given in it, and "set size" works already better than Spriter plugin, mostly because Spine makes 1 object instead of many. It seems we found our savior ! Thanks.

I guess the "PIN" behavior won't follow an ImagePoint, it just keeps position & angle from its spawn point related to pinned object.

I think you need to use a position action on your DOT sprite. So you need to create an event like :

When hunter_img is playing "Attack" > set DOT position to (hunter_img.ImagePointX(1), hunter_img.ImagePointY(1))

This way, every tick, the DOT will be positioned on the imagePoint. (you can also give names to ImagePoints)