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global counters not working

SeanB 10 years ago updated 9 years ago 6
You may already be tracking and fixing this, but just in case.

  1. Create a global counter on page 2
  2. add a button tap > counter add 1 to it, then counter display
works as expected. now,
  1. on other pages add this action to any element:
  2. behavior counter display, target our counter, execute on page load "yes"
Run in Design mode
Expected: increment counter on page 2 to X, navigate to other pages and back and continue to see X on all pages that execute counterDisplay

Actual: global counter behaves as a page counter - not available to other pages, value is discarded after leaving page 2.

This is urgent for me as I want to use it to allow user to toggle off app-wide audio. See http://feedback.interactbuilder.com/topic/531056-how-can-you-play-page-and-narration-audio-together/?user_satisfaction=1#satisfaction_rating_edit
Answer
Inna Komarovsky 9 years ago
Hi Sean,
Here's a way to get around this problem:

1. On the pages that have CounterDisplay on page load, add a text element, and use that as the target of the CounterDisplay behavior. The CounterDisplay behavior has a separate field for Target and Counter, and the Counter field is where you can select the global counter that will display in the Target text element. So the global counter keeps track of the value, but the text elements on each page act as a container for displaying the value.

2. On the pages that use CounterDisplay on page load, go to the page properties, and set the Save Page State field to No. This makes sure that the "on page load" behaviors happen each time the page opens.
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Under review

stop import psd file

Serge Patry 11 years ago updated by Ezra Weinstein (Administrator) 11 years ago 0

When importing PSD file is it possible to had a button to stop that transfer. Reason if by mistake I am importing the wrong PSD file or for what ever reason, a button that would stop that PSD import would be useful.

Thank you.

Serge

Answer

This might be useful but I'm not sure what we would do if a user cancelled the import.  What if it got through a part of the import, should it delete everything it did so far?  We will investigate this further.

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Under review

consistent way to lose a just-added action

SeanB 10 years ago updated by Alin Alexandru Matei 10 years ago 3
Twice following these steps I have added a 3rd action on an action, and it has been lost.

  1. I have frame anim. element A in background, frame anim. element B in foreground, transparent element C masking tap on B
  2. I have onPageLoad animate B with linear transition from right to center stage, and hide mask C
  3. In Action Manager, on element B I add a 3rd action TAP > animate self + linear exit stage left
  4. I duplicate element A, which has a TAP animate self, creating elem. D
  5. D is above B, I leave it and drag it into place. I'll move it to background later
  6. I run Interact mode
Expected: elem B rolls in from stage right, I tap it and it exits stage left
Actual:Elem. B rolls in. Nothing happens when I tap B, or D, or A.

Back in Design mode I check my elem B actions. There are only 2. My 3rd was not preserved. A and D have their actions.

I have since added the 3rd via the good old original Action sub-tab, and not cloned anything over elem B. it's action 3 now persists.

Answer
Alin Alexandru Matei 10 years ago
I tried to recreate this situation but everything is working as it great. Neither one of the action sets is disappearing.
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Declined

Speed up page loading in design / interact mode

Charmaine Anderson 11 years ago updated by Ezra Weinstein (Administrator) 11 years ago 1

It would be awesome if you could speed up the loading of pages when one clicks on a go to next page button.  Not sure if this is dependent solely on the weight of the assets on the page being called, but if there is anything you can do to speed this up both in design mode and interact mode that would be great.  It takes about 10 sec for me to load each page in design mode.   Thanks for your consideration.

Answer

I'm not really seeing any issues loading pages in design mode.  On a complex app that we have it takes less than 2 seconds to move between pages in design mode and about the same amount of time to move to interact mode.  I am going to close this topic for now.  Try the latest version 3.3, if you still have an issue we may need to look at your app.  I'm sure by now you have optimized your graphics. Do you have animations with a ton of frames?

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Fixed

3.4 Locking up and not allowing edit or delete.

Judy K. Johnson 10 years ago updated by Ezra Weinstein (Administrator) 10 years ago 0
I work on P.C.  I downloaded Builder 3.4 today Sat 1/25.  I am having same problem in 3.4 as Clint.  When working in Design I have a couple pages that just lock up.  I can't even get out of Builder without Task Manager.  The pages have several elements with simple linear transition so I thought I would try deleting a few elements.  The program will not even let me delete an element but locks up listing a problem with database.

There is no way to edit and try to adjust the page to play appropriately.  I really need a fix for this.
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We are fixing this and an update will be released shortly.
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Answered

Draw Line

Jen Hoyte 10 years ago updated by Inna Komarovsky 10 years ago 3
In the old version, the DrawLine allowed you to start drawing, stop, start back drawing in a different direction, stop, continue in a different direction and so on.  In this way you could get a bent line.
Now once the mouse is released, the line cannot be continued in any direction.
How can I get it to work like before?
Thanks.
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Inna Komarovsky 10 years ago
Hi Jen,
If you add a Drag-Move (Self) action set to the element, the effect should work as it did before, where you can continue adding to the line.

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Answered

Private messages?

Trevor Boulton 10 years ago updated by Alin Alexandru Matei 10 years ago 2
I am not receiving any response to private messages, is there a problem?
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Fixed

Android player issues

Ranco 10 years ago updated by Inna Komarovsky 10 years ago 2
Tried the InteractPlayer on my brand new Samsung Galaxy S4.
First, as already mentioned, it is hard to see the login window, but it's only once.
Second, it takes 25 seconds to start (!), the screen is black (no splash), as if it is off. Very frustrating. And not only in the first run. Same with my S3 mini.
Third, when I download an app, I get an error message:
Image 120
I can't click the "Send Error" (and can't hardly see it). Download continues and completes, but there's nothing in any of the shelves.
And forth - the icon for the player is SO similar to Google Play icon:
Image 121

Please advise...
Ranco
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Inna Komarovsky 10 years ago
We were able to recreate most of the errors that you've encounter and we are working on a fix. Thank you for letting us know about them.
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Planned

"Manage Action sets" dialog - vertical scale

Ranco 11 years ago updated by Ezra Weinstein (Administrator) 11 years ago 0

Please allow scaling of the dialog (at least vertically). When there are lots of actions it is hard to read.



Answer

Planned for version 3.4

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Fixed

Audio bug - on tap to play audio causes animation to be sliced

Charmaine Anderson 11 years ago updated by Ezra Weinstein (Administrator) 11 years ago 1

After assigning on tap to animated .png sequence to play an short .mp3 sound effect, a small rectangular piece of the animation displays in the center of the screen when element is tapped.  The animation continues to its target location but the rectangle with a slice of the animation stays in place.  I'm using a PC with the latest version of IB3.  Then program crashed and keeps crashing when I reopen the program.  Hopefully this will resolve when I reboot... spent the entire day try to work around IB3 bugs....sigh.

Answer

This issue seems to happen only on Windows and not on a Mac.  It should not appear when you run your app on a device, we are trying to find out what the issue is and get it resolved.