There was one time when I have a project that need duplication of objects in CorelDraw in order to save time. That moment then, I accidentally powerclipped an object inside an object that is to be duplicated for future use of other objects that needs same dimensions as the object I'm working now. As a result I extracted its objects and what happened is that, yes the objects got extracted but the container object have had diagonal lines from its objects. What can I do to stop or rather not come up again with a situation like this?
There are two ways:
1) Right click object, select Frame Type - None
2) Layout menu > enable Layout Toolbar. third button is remove frame
Unfortunately it is not possible to do such an operation on more than one object at the same time.
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I've ran into some issues with my current gamemaker project. I've setup a simple "merge" functionality in my game, and I'm trying to increase it's QoL
So what's happening when I'm merging, is this;
var sabatons = instance_place(x, y, object_index);
if (instance_exists(sabatons)) {
instance_create_layer(sabatons.lastknownPosX, sabatons.lastknownPosY, "Instances", "");
if (level >= 3) {
scr_spawn_experience();
}
audio_play_sound(snd_sabatons_merge,10,false);
instance_destroy();
instance_destroy(sabatons);
}
So what the code above does, is to check if object_index matches with what I'm trying to merge it with, and if it does, it runs instance_create_layer - which is where my question comes in.
My objects are easily named with a digit at the end, to keep track of their "level"
so basically, obj_sabatons_1 means it's the first item in a chain, obj_sabatons_2 is the second etc. Now what I need help with is to convert whatever the object is that I'm trying to merge with, to a string (object_index) but increase it with 1, so I then can put that result in my instance_create_layer so the game will create the next level of item, if I successfully merge my first two items :)
Thanks!!
Is there a reason that the level should be part of the name? If not, then you could convert the level into a variable of the object obj_sabatons, so you can keep all the code related to obj_sabatons in one place (And then remove all those copied objects with digits at the end)
Making multiple copies of the same object can be disadvantageous in numerous ways, For example, if you want to expand the limit, then you'd have to create a new object for each level, making a code change also means changing that code in every other object level (unless you're making use of parents/child objects), it would also make the progress of merging objects into new objects easier
I am currently working on a rogue-like game in GameMaker Studio 2 and i would like to have an item spawner where no items are repeated.
I have tried multiple different ideas of what i think would work, such as giving items and id variable and only spawning items which hasn't had it's id called, although it doesn't seem to work.
The code I have right now is basic, but that is because it's the only way I've been able to spawn an item, there is repeating items with what i have and i would like to stop that from happening.
Here is the Create code of the object:
// Items
var items = choose(
obj_homing,
obj_tracking,
obj_bounce,
obj_double_xp,
obj_shotgun,
obj_orbit,
obj_firefaster,
obj_scattershot,
obj_damageboost,
obj_explosive
);
instance_create_layer(x, y, "Items", choose(items));
I haven't had any actually crashes in the game, although the errors i have faced are multiple of the same object spawning twice when i would like items to not repeat.
One option is to modify the items array after each call to remove the spawned item, and re-initialize it as full only at the start of each game or when the array is empty.
The problem I'm seeing in looking through the Game Maker Language Documentation is that I cannot find a way to delete an object from an existing array and resize the array.
You're placing choose on both defining the var, and when creating the layer.
Now, I don't know exactly what choose does, but I assume it's choosing randomly a selection from the array.
So Items would only return a single chosen item from the array, maybe it's better to remove the choose function from the Items, and only decide that when creating the object.
So the Items should become an array:
var items = [
obj_homing,
obj_tracking,
obj_bounce,
obj_double_xp,
obj_shotgun,
obj_orbit,
obj_firefaster,
obj_scattershot,
obj_damageboost,
obj_explosive
];
Just save the random instance in a variable, then when you create a random instance, check if equals to the instance that you have created previously, and if it is, call again the function until the previous instance is different from the new generated instance.
If you want to spawn every item only once, how about changing the current spawned object in the array to "noone".
And at every spawn cycle, you would check, if the selected item is noone and if so, select the next item (array[i++]).
Also do not forget to randomize the seed, somewhere in the beginning of your game with randomize().
EDIT: For context, I am trying to import a certain range of columns in an Excel sheet into a Blue Prism object as a collection.
So I've got a worksheet with columns from A to AM. When I get sheet as collection, blank columns named "Column1" to "Column10" (the first time) and "Column1" to "Column19" (the second time, note its 19 cols this time) mysteriously appear in the collection. No data is in these columns - no whitespace, nothing.
In order to prevent anything of the sort from messing up the collection cols, I'm looking for a way to get a range of columns as a collection, e.g. A - AM. The number of rows is undetermined, so the get range as collection action is not suitable. Thanks in advance!
I never really liked the default object to get range as collection because of that. You can create a new action in the Excel VBO object (do make sure to be careful with that since re-importing the default object will basically erase the action. I usually rename it as 'MS Excel VBO Customized' or something along those lines).
The way I would do it is as follows:
Open the 'MS Excel VBO' object and duplicate the page 'Get Worksheet Rage as Collection' and name it 'Get Worksheet Range as Collection New' (or anything you deem suitable):
Edit the code stage: give it a new name (because code stages cannot have the same name in the same object) and change the inputs and code stages to match the following (I'm calling the new range as 'Address' here, but feel free to name it something else as long as you are consistent throughout):
Edit the start stage. You can delete the previous data items for Start Cell and End Cell and create one for Address:
Publish and save the object. You can then use it from the object or process you are working on and use a range such as A:AM.
I have a DataTable that I'm passing to a FlexCel report. It contains a variable number of columns, so I'm using the Full Dataset feature (e.g. <#table_name.*>).
However, only a subset of the fields are dynamically generated (I have a variable number of attachments). The column name for each attachment field starts with a common word (e.g. "Attachment0", "Attachment1", etc).
What I would like to do is output the known finite set of fields and then the variable number of attachments. It would be nice if I could write something like <#table_name.Attachment*> (and <#table_name.Attachment**>). Is there any way in FlexCel Reports I can achieve the same result?
A side benefit to such a solution means that I could keep the formatting for the known/finite set of fields.
Update
I added place holder columns to the document, each with a <#delete column> tag, so that the un-wanted columns/data are removed.
Although this works, it's not ideal. For example, if I want to see how the columns fit in the page width (in print preview), then I need to hide the columns. Then I have to remember to un-hide them again, so other developers can see/understand my handy work.
It would be much more straight forward if I could filter the fields before they're output to the document.
I realised there's an alternate way around this problem. I broke up the data into two sets of data - <#table_name.*> and <#table_name_attachments.*>.
The fixed set of fields are in the first table and the variable set of fields is in the second table (all the "Attachment*" fields). When the report is run, I place them next to each other (in the same order) in the same worksheet. This means I have two table ranges - "_table_name_" and "_table_name_attachments_" on the one sheet.
Now I'm able to run my print preview without hiding/re-showing the columns-to-be-deleted. I've also eliminated human error - it was all to easy to accidentally set the wrong number of padded/delete columns.
I want to perform something like the one below:
display a dataframe in RGTK2 window, with scrollbar on the right
user can select the specific row in the dataframe by clicking on it, and I can "get" which row the user has actually clicked
I wonder if this can be done using RGtk2. Thanks.
Yes, of course. Have a look at: https://github.com/jverzani/gWidgets2RGtk2/blob/master/R/gtable.R . You can pull out most of the first request in the initialize method and the second in the set_selected and get_selected methods. The task is made much easier (and faster!) by Michael Lawrence's rGtkDataFrame constructor to turn data frames into models that RGtk2's views can use quite easier.