quackgyver's Forum Posts

  • quackgyver Could you share a sample project or JSON string? I tested this just now and it works correctly - only one event fires.

    You need to remove "Append JSON.Get("books.title") (i.e. line #3) for the "Else"-case (i.e. line #4) to fire.

    I think if you give that a try, you'll be able to reproduce the issue.

  • as far as I know the "Has Key" is basically a loop, so the else will almost always get triggered.

    by inverting the first condition you get the "else" effect when the key is not present, and the the actual else will trigger properly when the key is present...

    I haven't actually tested that.

    I'm not sure I'm following the logic.

    Regardless of whether it's inverted, it should be either hard true or hard false, unless something is happening in the application loop that causes some loops to return true and some to return false (for instance in case "Has Key" is asynchronous), but as far as I know that's not the case here.

  • Did you try to invert that condition?

    Why would I do that?

  • For some reason, putting "Else" after "Has key" will cause both "Has key" and "Else" to fire, if "Has key" points to an object that is one level down from the path's root.

    See example:

    However, putting the two events inside another "Has key"-condition that checks the path's root will cause only the "Has key"-element to fire.

    See example:

    I'm having a hard time seeing the logic behind both conditions firing unless they're placed inside another condition. I feel like the loop should iterate through them the same way in both scenarios since the "Has key"- and "Else"-events are siblings.

    Can someone shed some light on this?

    Thanks in advance.

    EDIT:

    For clarification, the JSON data is loaded in many seconds before these events are run, so I don't think it's a lag- or synchrony-related issue.

  • Bump.

    This still hasn't been fixed.

  • I have a function that needs to be able to pick objects by combing strings (e.g. variable_foo&"bar"&variable_baz).

    I don't want to have to copy over object names into instance variables since that's going to increase the manual work significantly, so I'd like to be able to pick objects by names specifically.

    Is this possible to do, and if so, how can I achieve this?

    I feel like this should work:

    But for some reason it doesn't.

    Would appreciate some help on this.

    Thanks in advance.

    EDIT:

    I should probably mention that it's the picking object-aspect that's important, because I also need to know when it returns false (so that I can insert an "else" case to determine whether any objects matching the name exists). Otherwise I would've just used a foreach loop on a family and compared the ObjecTypeName.

  • have you tried right clicking on a blank area of the eventsheet, choose "Event Sheet" (at the bottom of the pop-up menu), choose "Font Size" and then click Reset.

    That worked. Thank you. :-)

  • Are on a laptop? I keep accidentally shrinking the type by holding Command/Ctrl and scrolling on the trackpad (2-finger on Mac). You could try that shortcut to scale things back up.

    I've tried scrolling to zoom, as well as holding CTRL, ALT, SHIFT etc. while both scrolling and pressing + and -. Nothing happens, except for when I do CTRL+ and - to zoom the browser's view, but that still doesn't fix the problem of UI elements shrinking in Construct.

  • When I load my project, the event editor is zoomed out while everything else in the project looks normal.

    The browser view's zoom is at 100%, but the event editor is still barely readable.

    How can I restore the event editor to normal?

    See attached image.

  • So apparently the issue is that Debug Layout has suddenly broken for my project specifically.

    How do I fix this?

  • I can't click on "Debug layout" anymore. I've tried it in both Safari and Firefox, and it's not working in either browser.

    I've tried clearing cookies, resetting the Ui, resetting the local storage and other basic troubleshooting steps, but none seem to work.

    Is anyone having the same issue?

  • How can you check whether any objects containing a certain instance value exists without having to dedicate a variable to the check?

    I need to do a lot of checks to see whether any Sprites containing certain instance values exist, and I don't want to have to manage a Dictionary or a set of variables in order to do each such check.

    I'd instead prefer to be able to do a simple conditional check that is either inherently true or false.

    Is there any way to do this?

  • Hi,

    I've attached an image to a very simple use case.

    The first event line outputs "DebugDebug".

    Meanwhile, the second line doesn't even fire (confirmed with breakpoints).

    Given that these are two perfectly matched strings, why is it that Construct doesn't acknowledge the second line as true?

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  • I tried again just now but in Firefox on macOS this time. Different computer, different OS, same result.

    Both of the times I created new projects (tested with and without the Keyboard plugin added).

    Another somewhat related issue is that both Safari and Firefox seem to lose focus when tab is pressed, as Construct doesn't seem to capture the tab key's input. This is true even when "Keyboard: Tab is down" is specified.

    I would attach a GIF that shows the behavior but the forum won't allow me to upload animated images.

  • I just started using Construct 3 in Firefox on Windows 10, and whenever I go into preview mode, pressing any key causes the CTRL+F-search bar to appear. This happens even when I have no events whatsoever in the entire project.

    How can I fix this?