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Suggestion: copy and paste action sets to multiple elements

Melissa Lind 11 years ago • updated by Ezra Weinstein (Administrator) 11 years ago • 7

It would be great to have an easy way to copy and paste action sets to multiple elements. The current option is not really much of a time saver. It takes as much time as setting up a new action set. Perhaps you could drag and drop the action sets, and how great would it be to be able to highlight ten different elements and have them all get the new action set.


Thanks!!! Great work.

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Ezra Weinstein (Administrator) 11 years ago

You can easily do this by simply setting up your first element setting up all your action sets, and then making copies of the element and change the graphic of the element. Rather than dropping your elements on the page first.  


The other way to do this is to access the action set manager which has a copy option in to to copy entire sets of action sets from one element to another.  You can see how to do this in the user guide:


Action Set Manager

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Fixed

InteractPlayer playback discrepancies

Judy K. Johnson 10 years ago • updated by Ezra Weinstein (Administrator) 10 years ago • 1
Just to let you know I had reported a discrepancy between PC and Mac InteractPlayer.  The PC would hang up on page 8 and require Task Manager to close the file.  The MAC Air (11") would play the app from beginning to end.

After I had reported the discrepancy, I went out to InteractBuilder website to look again for an update to InteractPlayer.  I was delighted to see that there was an update 343 for me to download tonight.  I was also delighted to see that the update has solved the dilemma with my app lockingup in Player on page 8.  This update now correctly plays my app from beginning to end.

Thanks InteractBuilder team.  It's obvious that you are doing everything possible to keep all of us writer/illustrators happy.
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Ezra Weinstein (Administrator) 10 years ago
If you could zip up your application folder and share it with us via DropBox or another file sharing service we will take a look at it and see if we can recreate the issue.
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Contest date?

Ranco 10 years ago • updated by Ezra Weinstein (Administrator) 10 years ago • 2
Any change? I can't get my app running with 3.4, chasing my tail here. all animations are corrupted, things doesn't work as they used to, It is in the worst state ever...
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Ezra Weinstein (Administrator) 10 years ago
We are working on fixes for this, hopefully will have an update this weekend.
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Publishing to BigFishGames

Ted Ollikkala 10 years ago • updated by Ezra Weinstein (Administrator) 10 years ago • 1
I may wish to have my Adventure Game app distributed through BigFishGames

http://www.bigfishgames.com/


Their terms are not set forth up front, so it's hard to know what the commission and/or fees would be:

http://pressroom.bigfishgames.com/submit-games

There is some information here:

http://greyaliengames.com/blog/getting-your-game-o...



Q. What kind of criteria does the game need to meet? Would a Windows only game work, or does it need to be cross platform? Do they have some kind of minimum system requirement for all games?

A. Windows only is fine. If you can convert it to Mac easily you will make a decent amount of extra sales. Also make sure that all your game text is read in from a Unicode text file because then if the game does well you can localise it and make more sales on BFG’s foreign language portals.
Minimum requirements are XP (they don’t support Windows 98 any more). Also the game has to be able to save data in the correct location for Vista and Windows 7 properly which is a bit of a headache (you’ll need to research this). You can’t put any web links in your games or connect to any online service (for high scores etc.) You should test your game on XP/Vista/7 just to make sure it works the same and there are no graphical or sound anomalies (I use a different sound driver for Vista/7 for example).

Your game should start in full-screen at 800×600 minimum and have a windowed mode option. There’s a bunch of other “nice to have” things too such as simple options screens (not complicated ones), making sure you can Alt-Tab out/in of the game without graphics corruption + pause it – stuff like that. Just check out any of the other top games and see how they handle things. Also you can always ask for a QA checklist when you submit (or before) and hopefully they’ll send you something.


FOR EXAMPLE:

For example, this title "The Secret Legacy: A Kate Brooks Adventure" is available in 4 different formats from the BigFishGames store, all accessible from the main page and linking to the various app stores:

http://www.bigfishgames.com/download-games/10891/t...

(i) Amazon app store - http://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/dl/android?p=com.bigf...

(ii) Google Play store - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com....

(iii) iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-secret-legacy-...

(iv) PC - http://www.bigfishgames.com/download-games/10891/t...


QUESTIONS:

Is an app published via the InteractBuilder in a form that can be submitted in all four versions?

If not, which versions could be submitted? 

Thanks!

Ted

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Ezra Weinstein (Administrator) 10 years ago
Currently this is not the direction we are moving towards.  The apps created in the InteractBuilder can be submitted directly to the Apple App Store, Google Play, and the Chrome store (for desktops).

We may look at this in the future.
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jump to nonexistent page

SeanB 10 years ago • updated 10 years ago • 2
I have a Home icon. Tap > Jump to page 1 I changed the icon image, source from file. Now it is jumping to page 154. I have 12 pages.
Image 206
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Inna Komarovsky 10 years ago
Hi Sean, I'm trying to recreate this problem in order to figure out what situation causes it, but it's not working the same way for me, so I wanted to ask a few questions to see if I can recreate it:

- On which page is the home icon?
- Was the icon copied from somewhere else or copied as a template?
- Is the icon global?

Thank you for reporting this problem!
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Fixed

Multiple movement behaviors bug

Ranco 11 years ago • updated by Ezra Weinstein (Administrator) 11 years ago • 1

I tried to create a path animation - move a paddle ball along a path (8 points).

So I've added 8 "Move -> Movement" behaviors (first one with Tab action, the others I planed to set each one after its predecessor).

This is how it looks:

Image 5

When I clicked the Manage Action Set - this is what I got:

Image 6


which is not what I've expected.


Anyway, clicking "change..." on any of the targets generated this error:


An application error occurred while attempting to perform the last action.

Restarting InteractBuilder is recommended.

Error: Chunk: can't find background / Chunk: can't find object / Object: does not have this property / put: error in expression

Handler: redrawTable

Hint: 

Location: Line 386, char 20

Object: button id 70090 of card id 1002 of stack "IBResources" of stack "C:/Program Files/InteractBuilder/Local Components/Data/InteractBuilder.livecode"

87: Line 386 at char 20: Chunk: can't find background

77: Line 386 at char 20: Chunk: can't find object

456: Line 386 at char 8: Object: does not have this property

465: Line 386 at char 1: put: error in expression

241: Line 386 at char 1: Handler: error in statement ----> redrawTable

353: Line 0 at char 0: Object Name: ----> button id 70090 of card id 1002 of stack "IBResources" of stack "C:/Program Files/InteractBuilder/Local Components/Data/InteractBuilder.livecode"

573: Line 132 at char 1: Handler: can't find handler ----> redrawTable

253: Line 128 at char 1: if-then: error in statement

253: Line 27 at char 1: if-then: error in statement

253: Line 19 at char 1: if-then: error in statement

241: Line 19 at char 1: Handler: error in statement ----> uSTSTableView

353: Line 0 at char 0: Object Name: ----> button id 70090 of card id 1002 of stack "IBResources" of stack "C:/Program Files/InteractBuilder/Local Components/Data/InteractBuilder.livecode"

449: Line 2344 at char 4: Object: can't set object property

535: Line 2344 at char 1: set: can't set property

241: Line 2344 at char 1: Handler: error in statement ----> MAS_BS_SetupDialog

353: Line 0 at char 0: Object Name: ----> button id 1012 of card id 1002 of stack "Behaviors" of stack "C:/Program Files/InteractBuilder/Local Components/Data/InteractBuilder.livecode"

573: Line 578 at char 1: Handler: can't find handler ----> MAS_BS_SetupDialog

253: Line 573 at char 1: if-then: error in statement

241: Line 573 at char 1: Handler: error in statement ----> MAS_Change

353: Line 0 at char 0: Object Name: ----> button id 1012 of card id 1002 of stack "Behaviors" of stack "C:/Program Files/InteractBuilder/Local Components/Data/InteractBuilder.livecode"

675: Line 9 at char 1:  ----> MAS_Change

241: Line 9 at char 1: Handler: error in statement ----> mouseUp

353: Line 0 at char 0: Object Name: ----> graphic id 4515586 of group id 4554730 of group id 4515587 of group id 4510993 of group id 4510989 of card id 1139 of stack "C:/Program Files/InteractBuilder/Local Components/Data/InteractBuilder.livecode"

button id 1299 of card id 1002 of stack "libSTSErrors" of stack "C:/Program Files/InteractBuilder/Local Components/Data/InteractBuilder.livecode",errorDialog,150

stack "C:/Program Files/InteractBuilder/Local Components/Data/InteractBuilder.livecode",DoError,9972,button id 1004 of card id 1002 of stack "Behaviors" of stack "C:/Program Files/InteractBuilder/Local Components/Data/InteractBuilder.livecode"



Ranco

Israel SQA team...

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Answered

Can I make a loading screen?

halerhys@hotmail com 9 years ago • updated by Inna Komarovsky 9 years ago • 2
I can see on the Bill The Fish app that there is a loading screen when it starts, but haven't been able to find in the manual how to make a loading screen of my own. Are there any instructions somewhere?
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Inna Komarovsky 9 years ago
Hi, sorry for the delay! At this point the custom loading screen feature is not available. I'm checking to see whether it is planned to be added back.
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Under review

Player publishes different than "Interact"

c vega 10 years ago • updated by Alin Alexandru Matei 10 years ago • 6
Hello! I have had problems in the upload and download of my app. The app runs fine in my Mac. When uploading it, runs smoothly. However, when downloading it in the iPad, the Player reports missing zips, hence, the app dose not run properly. Pls advise.
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Alin Alexandru Matei 10 years ago
Try to share a one page app to your iPad and let us know if that app will open. Thank you for the feedback.
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"Manage Action sets" dialog - missing actions

Ranco 11 years ago • updated 10 years ago • 4

Sometimes, for example if you add Tap -> Animate action, and click the Manage Action Sets dialog, the new action isn't there. You have to close the Props dialog and re-open for this new action to appear

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Ezra Weinstein (Administrator) 11 years ago

Any specific scenario would help, we were not able to reproduce.

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templates duplicating globals by adding instances

SeanB 10 years ago • updated by Ezra Weinstein (Administrator) 10 years ago • 0
Made a page that shows global text and counters. Made a template from it. made a blank page and applied the template. The new page had duplicate instances of the global elements and the counter.  You cannot clean this up for counters. Had to discard page and build from scratch.
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Ezra Weinstein (Administrator) 10 years ago
We will have to do some testing on this and see what is going on.


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