Design and Dictionary

Hello community,

So I have a little quest ahead, and I can think of a way to do it, but I do not know if this way would be the best and smarter, so I need some advice.

I have several characters, and the screen where the player selects which one to play. You just swipe to the left or right to navigate through the characters, only one character appears on the screen at each time.

Below the character there is a text indicating it's name, so the text changes at each character.

How do I save all the names and display then according to the selected character?

The way I am thinking is to have a Dictionary and save all the names, then get them through the keys. That's what I am trying to do now, but it is turning out to be not so simple as I expected because it needs Ajax (or am I wrong?) and I never used Ajax before.

If this way is really the best way to do this, please can you explain me how to retrieve the values from the Dictionary Editor? Using ' Dictionary.Get ' doesn't work, I'm missing something.

Thank you so much for your time and help :)

Isaac

If you have not used a tool in Construct, the best is to first go through its manual article :

Project file - construct.net/make-games/manuals/construct-3/project-primitives/files

AJAX - construct.net/make-games/manuals/construct-3/plugin-reference/ajax

And then, as can be seen in the how do I FAQ for C3 for example :

construct.net/forum/construct-3/general-discussion-7/c3-missing-the-new-editors-124916

You need to populate your dictionary first if you want to get data from it.

To do so, you may add a json file to your project, and on start of your first layout, you ask, through AJAX, to retrieve its content.

Once your dictionary is full, dictionary.get will return values as you intend.

For your character selection screen though, you may want to use an array rather than a dictionary, since you can "apply" a name/image to a numeric value which may be easier to determine/navigate with your swiping interface.

It makes it easier to add a character, and changing the order is just moving informations around in the original json file.

This is how it should look like:

Oh God, that's what I was missing, the "On completed" event.

Thank you kriand.