If I have SPRITE1 and it has an instance variable 'varX' that's of type string, for some reason I'm not able to set logic around different strings that could possibly go into that instance variable. So if I generate 5 instances, but each time I generate an instance I want to say "if varX = "James" do this; if varX = "Bill" do that, etc." but Construct 3 doesn't seem to want to acknowledge this as valid.

However, if I make a 'varY' that is a type number, and I say "if varY = 1 do this; if varY = 2 do that," it works perfectly. But if I have an Array, for instance, where I'm saving strings and I want to associate those strings with my SPRITE1 instances on creation, and then do some other logic around them after creation, I can't put a nested logic branch that's smart enough to read the string instance variable (because setting the string instance variable is easy enough).

I don't want to have to make my array numeric just to get around this, because that would make it very hard to debug. I'm sure the solution is right in front of my face, but I've been staring at this problem for like 3 hours.

AllanR - If you could be so kind, the more I read this the more confused I get. Mainly because the way that Arrays seem to work is very 45-degree-axis-flipped from the way they normally work, at least in the inspector. In my understanding, a row is a record, but it seems that in Construct 3 arrays, a row is a field type (what would otherwise be a column in, say, a Google/Excel spreadsheet). But this makes it insanely difficult (maybe just for me to twist my mind to make it make sense) to READ in the Inspector at runtime. I want to see it like it would be a spreadsheet, but it shows in ROWS of X index????

How is one supposed to learn this stuff if it's mirror-flipped twice?

Thank you for that thorough explanation! I can definitely work with this. It's not an ideal solution, but hopefully anything that comes out of challenges with a software can be used to help the software evolve! Maybe they'll fix this in the NEAR future to be easier to manipulate??? Would you say that, if they did have the 'sort by x' feature (and that filter function as well) that it would be the right solution for this challenge? Or do you feel that your solution is easy to set up from scratch every time?

Thought it'd be a good suggestion to have an action in Arrays to where sorting can be done by column of the array. So instead of just sorting the whole array by either axis, you'd be sorting by, say, column 3 (x = 2), so that if you have a database of items, you could choose which column you wanted to sort by for inventory purposes.

I thought this subforum was the "How do I?" section. I'm asking how to do these things. I wanted to explain what I'm trying to do, with the pretense of, "how do I do this?"

How do I best replace TaffyDB as a reliable C2 database plugin? How best to set up inventories that can borrow data from each other? How to create arrays that I can use to make scrollable lists in C3?

Thanks for clarifying. I was at least able to get my game back up and running in v163 (for now).

Is it actually impossible to make beta releases backwards compatible with stable builds? I just want to know if there's a way to add all of the new features and bug fixes in such a way that we don't lock our games in beta versions that a third-party plugin(s) can break on install.

Maybe just disabling our events/actions that were only possible in later versions (wouldn't that just be a state-change for that particular event/action block)? That way we can just make note of what's been disabled and work back around it in stable without the plugins (that we added to the beta build) that broke our save.

I'm sincerely asking if this is reasonable, because I'm not a software engineer (yet) and I have no clue what to do with my game save until somebody helps me fix whatever I broke by installing a set of plugins (Construct Master Collection for $100) and then promptly having to uninstall them one-by-one when my game save broke. Still can't get the save to load even after uninstalling them.

BUMP.

This should definitely be addressed soon. Ashley

I'll take a look at the link, but I started building my game in 2015 and didn't get the construct 3 license until I had already published my game to Google Play, heavily using TaffyDB, LiteTween, and some other plugins that didn't migrate over. I have been, I guess, essentially afraid to do the migration this whole tim because of that extra layer of complexity.

I started using Construct 2 when Intel XDK was a viable build service. Then, when that was shut down, I started to use Cocoon.io, until that also went by the wayside. I'm not really good at this particular portion of game development, so when I tried to use the Phonegap web service, I noticed there are some missing plugin integration steps that are vital to my game's functionality.

I have no idea what to do now, and my players in the Google Play store are complaining about crashes that I can't track down, and I don't want to keep putting builds out that have the same issues because I'm using the same incomplete web services (Phonegap)... But I also don't know much about software engineering, so can anybody come through in the clutch for me with some amazing knowledge so I can just focus on DESIGNING A GAME?!

Thanks!

THanks Kyriakos - I will send your website to my friend so he can choose to reach out in his own time.