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I read at least one other post from someone who described this (without a response), so I thought I'd report it again and see if anyone can confirm/address it.
I need to place a stamp at a variable location (putting up a three-digit build number on the Startup Screen, which is turning out to be a MONSTROUSLY difficult task). In the stamp event box, you can enter X and Y coordinates for the stamp's placement. However, it only takes numerical values; any non-numeric value (like &&gb;_cursor_x) is turned to a 0 when "+" is clicked.
I know this is possible because the score display events in the Cosmic Memory source have variables in these boxes, but again, if you try to edit them, they turn to zeros.
In the end, the only way I was able to do this was through a very dangerous hack: manually edit the binary .cet file with a hex editor, overwriting dummy text in the cursor locations with equal-length variable name strings. To be specific, changing "1.234568+e11" to "&&gb;_cursorx" (had to rename the global to get it down to 12 characters, which is the longest a floating-point value like the one above can be). This is a wicked hack, extremely dangerous, and likely to crash the system if you place one byte out of place. Don't do it.
What I'm wondering is whether this is a known bug, or whether there's an undocumented method to force a non-numeric value to be accepted in numeric fields, or to allow a global variable to be specified. I tried every trick I could think of.
If it is a bug, is there time to squeeze it into the 1.0.1 patch? I can see I'm going to have to do a LOT with globals, and it would be nice to have this all working.
System: OSX 10.1.5, full registered version.
Thanks for any tips.
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Originally posted by TomatoMan: If it is a bug, is there time to squeeze it into the 1.0.1 patch? I can see I'm going to have to do a LOT with globals, and it would be nice to have this all working.
Mr. TomatoMan,
One of the beta testers or developers can probably provide a more official answer, but I thought I saw the above problem mentioned in the list of things the update is supposed to address. So I think this will be fixed upon its release.
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Originally posted by Stark Bledfast: **Mr. TomatoMan,
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Cool, thanks.
Is the list of planned fixes you're referring to public / online anywhere? I'd be really interested in seeing it if so.
Originally posted by Stark Bledfast: ** One of the beta testers or developers can probably provide a more official answer, but I thought I saw the above problem mentioned in the list of things the update is supposed to address. So I think this will be fixed upon its release. **
The stamp control now (in the soon-to-be-released update) accept tag values and also has an helper popup next to the coordinates field.
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