WackyToaster's Forum Posts

  • full java script with no events (is that even practical/possible?)

    Certainly possible. Practical... I'd say that depends. It's not easy and requires a bunch of documentation reading.

    hybrid approach

    I think for most cases this will be fine with not really any downsides. I'd say 99% of projects will not run into any real issues here.

  • Works fine on my side. Can you try a different browser? Disable browser addons that might interfere?

  • Yeah, scripting is nice. There are just a handful of things that I find simply more convenient/simple to do in eventsheets, but I'd like to eventually move even more into scripting, at least when we're talking complex projects. I really like the eventsheet for simple projects though.

  • I'm not sure I understand correctly, but that's exactly what the 9patch is for. Technically it's even better than a sprite.

    construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/plugin-reference/9-patch

    You can absolutely give it rounded corners and whatever design you like. It's perfect for recreating the exact same look of your example.

  • I know you asked about the information for text length and lines etc. but I don't think you need it for this purpose. It's actually much easier!

    You can simply use the Text object properties TextWidth and TextHeight.

    Then set a 9-patch object (probably the best solution for this) behind the text, and set its size to Text.TextWidth, Text.TextHeight. This will be very tight, so you can add some extra border.

  • Funny enough, some time ago I was tinkering with a project that would benefit from this. It was very simple though, basically all I needed was the option to make a call from construct to start a python script. That python script simply executed a few things and then started a local server, so in my case I didn't even really need callbacks (although ideally there would be callbacks for stuff like error handling)

    If anyone wants to try it out anyway, you can probably get a WebAssembly Python interpreter working with the addon SDK!

    Glad to know that it probably works although I don't think I could do that simply because no time and no current urge to do it (and I don't know web assembly)

  • Nice, that seems like quite a big project already.

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  • Let's not abuse this thread for posting project statistics, I've made an extra thread because I've wanted to see people post those for a while anyway out of curiosity

    construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/general-discussion-7/share-project-statistics-for-181376

  • I actually have been curious about these for some time because I've seen some people post absolute behemoth projects. And since it came up in another thread, why not have a dedicated thread... So share your project statistics, I wanna see what everyone is cooking.

    In the Project window, right-click the main game folder > Tools > View project statistics

  • That's a good question, I don't know. Why don't you just try it out and report your findings back? :)

  • You need to replace "Text" with the text you want to count the characters of. You can directly write a string in there like 

    len("This is my text")

    Or you can reference it from the text object like 

    len(Textobject.Text)

    Textobject is in this case the name of your textobject.

  • I usually do it this way

    You can adjust the factor (0.2) depending on how sudden you want the jump to be shortened.

  • Heh, I saw that on Twitter yesterday and tagged them there too. I think it would be pretty neat. I suppose that should also be posted to the suggestion github.

  • runtime.callFunction doesn't take a function as parameter? If you want to call this function you can just write. 

    Inventory__GetScrollY()

    runtime.callFunction is specifically made to call functions in an eventsheet via a String. construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/scripting/scripting-reference/iruntime

    Or am I misunderstanding something about your code? Doesn't seem like this function would return a string.

  • I understand that there's frustration but that's just the downside of using an engine in the first place. Do you want full control? Go with a framework instead, phaser comes to mind. It even has a bloom effect. Do you want absolute power? Make your own engine. With an engine you are largely at the mercy of whoever maintains it, with the benefit of having a large set of tools just ready to go. These tools are basically what you pay for.