grossd's Forum Posts

  • Hi,

    I am currently using an "agile" development tool to keep track of requirements and project notes. But, I think it would be great if there could be a work-log integrated in C2. Perhaps similiar to the Visual Studio IDE or Eclipse.

    First, perhaps the ability to add notes to each layout, and perhaps notes to the whole game. Later, perhaps also a todo list that is managed.

  • Hi,

    To simulate class hierarchies and also multiple classification, it would be very helpful to support families in families. The "algorthim" for instance detection would only need to be extended to work recursively to find all "picks" in the family and includes other families. This would allow creating very general event code.

    For example,

    I have some code that ensures that whatever is dragged on a screen is put on the top layer. With families in families I could write this event code using one on-top family, in an include layout and include it in all layouts and then just the object types or already existing families of object types into the on-top family. Like this the right instances would be identified automatically.

    Dan

  • Thanks jayderyu,

    Yes, i know its on the todo list but its not high up there and from what Ashley says its a deeper change.

    HUD is only one example. Global is a great feature when you want something across all layouts. Sometimes you want to be more selective, and reuse only across a number of layouts.

  • You can do that, but its tedious. Why not use a visual layout editor, and the press a button and it generates the code for you.

    Same as copy-paste --- you CAN copy paste everything, and the change manually everything when needed. Its already possible, as you say; but its tedious and boring and error prone.

  • Sargas, you need it to work more efficiently.

    Code you can for example put in an even sheet that you include in many other event sheets. For example suppose you want to have a HUD across all layouts, if you copy and paste it into say 20 other layouts, and then want to change somethign you need to go through all 20 layouts and make the change. With code its all in one place.

    Dan

  • Hi,

    I was thinking about a new feature today that might be useful.

    Once a layout with all its object types is created, to support translating the layout into event/action code. The event/action code can independently recreate all elements in the layout with all properties. Such a feature could be in particular useful to reuse layouts.

    Dan

  • Thanks!,

    Indeed I have an antivirus running. I now excluded the folder.

    Dan

  • Hi,

    I keep having trouble with saving the project.

    I continuously save the project presssing the save icon. I also see periodic autosaves, and yet, sometimes when the project file crashes -- the current version of the game file (capx file) can date back a day, and misses alot. I then go back to most recently autosaved file (tmp or otherwise), and find an almost up to date file -- with some items missing.

    I have no idea why this behavior happens, and its extremely frustrating. I never know, when the project was indeed saved or not.

    Does anyone else experiences such problems?

    thanks,

    Dan

    p.s. I am using the most recent C2 version ...

  • Hi zenox98,

    Here is a sample capx file: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/102 ... ample.capx

    As you can see, the make invisible button doesn't make the text invisible as long as it flashes. It is further interesting to notice that the invisible action is lost, i.e. after pressing invisible, the text does not become invisible after flashing ends. Only once flashing ended, the invisible action takes effect.

    thanks,

    Dan

  • Thanks Zenox,

    The events are pretty simple:

    Two buttons, one event "handler" for touching each button. When touching the first button a cue text is made visible and made to flash; when touching the second button, the cue text is hidden. Both event handlers are in parallel to each other.

    Only when the second event hander stops flashing the cue text and then hides the text, the text is really hidden.

  • Hi,

    In my quiz game I flash a cue when a person touches a wrong answer, and present a success messages when the person touches the right answer. Both right and wrong answers are displayed at the same time. The flash behavior is about a second long.

    Interestingly, when i press the wrong answer and then immediately the right answer, even when setting the cue text to invisible, once the cue text flashes, ti does not become invisible until the flash behavior completed. To ensure that the invisible action indeed makes the flashing cue disappear, i must first submit a stop flash action.

    While this is a minor issue, I thought to report it nevertheless since its somewhat counter-intuitive.

    Dan

  • Hi,

    I happen to develop C2 on a Win7 32 bit machine, and noticed that when C2 runs out of memory (on 4 GB), for example when opening a new layout, C2 stops working and crashes. Usually, this also involves loss of last changes (unless the backup run just before).

    It would be nice if C2 could handle out of memory more gracefully. For example, test if there is enough memory to open a new layout and if not, offer a message to first close other layouts to make more memory available.

    thanks,

    Dan

  • ramones,

    BTW, one side effect of storing the whole array in one webstore key is that duplicates need to be dealt with explicitly during add; but its very simply done, just by adding another condition: that the value entered is not already contained in the array.

    again, many thanks,

    Dan

  • https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61666915/zeroArray.capx

    zeroArray example

    i added an alert, the event after the loop (thats the same as the end of the loop)

    a subevent of the loop will be executed every iteration, but an event with loop as subevent, you can still run another subevent that will not iterate

    BTW, It looks like this example uses a latest C2 beta version 165?, instead of the current official release 163.

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  • That's perfect. Thank you for the example and effort.

    Indeed, i didn't think about adding the whole json list, in json, to webstore; but stored each value individually. Your solution is a great simplification because it avoids the need to use dictionary as intermediary.

    Also, it shows that dimension 0,1,1 does work!.

    Dan