I made a game have two objects in the hierarchy panel. One called GameScreen and another called Clock I set up. Each has its own script attached. GameScreen uses game.js and the other uses clock.js.
When I win the game a popup box appears and says, "You've won!" This is caused by the game.js script. However, the clock.js is still running, so my clock is still counting down. When the time is up the clock.js makes a popup box saying, "you lose!"
This causes for a "you win" screen to pop up when you win and then later a you lose screen to appear. As you can probably guess, this is super annoying. If there was a way I could change variables in one script from another,, I could get the clock to stop when you won or I could get the game to stop when the time ran out.
Is there some way to do this??
For example here are two javascript files one on clock and the other on GameScreen . I want the first one to change the variable changeMe in the second to two.
1.js:
function start(){
}
2.js:
var changeMe:int;
When you win the game, you can change clock's variable from game.js this way:
GameObject.Find("Clock").GetComponent("clock.js").variable_name = new_value;
, where [variable_name] and [new_value] obviously depend on your project. variable_name has to be an exposed variable.
You can simply use SendMessage() it will make you able to call a function from another object easily.Basically you need to write a function to destroy the clock after wining the game,let's say your function is called destroyClock so you should add that to your game.js script:
gameobject.Find("here goes the name of your clock obj").sendMessage("destroyClock")
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I'm trying to run code that tweens a stage child at the end of every minigame. I have several minigames with different tweens. The idea is that when you complete some goal with said minigame, a tween will run that plays some kind of animation. Unfortunately, when one tween runs, the rest in any minigame never execute. This also goes for the initial minigame: when one tween from minigame A runs, all the tweens in minigame A don't run. The only way to get tweens working again is to refresh the page, but even then, the problem will still continue.
I have these lines of code running globally in a file called universalDeclar.js that's read before any other js file besides the createjs cdn
createjs.Ticker.timingMode = createjs.Ticker.TIMEOUT;
createjs.Ticker.framerate = 24;
When I instantiate the new game, I give a specific child (for this case, a Sprite named professor) a tween animation before its added to the stage but don't play it until some condition is met in a later function, to which I write stupidTween.paused = false;
stupidTween = createjs.Tween.get(professor, {paused: true}, true)
.to({x: 700 }, 400, createjs.Ease.linear)
After running stage.update() in the initialize function, I always reset the ticker (since I plan on implementing time limits for each minigame) and call on a new function to run every tick
createjs.Ticker.reset();
createjs.Ticker.addEventListener("tick", fillTick);
Any guidance or help on this problem would be really appreciated since a lot of my games rely on tweenable animation
Fixed the problem myself. Apparently calling createjs.Ticker.reset(); prevents any other tweens from reoccurring despite functions being initialized with every new minigame load. I had to create some new variables to manage time differences between games but everything works now
Question
How to use these private functions on other windows? It would be nice to have this knowledge back in the wild. I am specifically trying to get CGSOrderWindow and CGSSetWindowLevel to work.
I was trying in the direction of:
temporarily register as the dock and then register the dock as the dock again immediately afterwards
or
code injection into the Dock process per this comment:
Also, the author of the above project seems determined to make all core functionality available as a framework. It seems to be implemented as code injection into the Dock process.
Reason I know this is possible
I have been doing work on trying to setLevel on window of another app, and focus window of another app if focused. I am posting this again with the info I learned because from my searching online, I know this was done in the past, its just the knowledge is not publicly out there anymore. The sourceforge pages are no longer there. So I was wondering if you could help me make this information public again.
This is the topic I read that gave me this information - http://cocoadev.com/HowtoControlOtherAppsWindows
Here you see comments like:
You cannot control an another app's windows from a user-level process, unfortunately.
SlavaKarpenko
You can, Slava, you just need to register as the Dock. It might be possible to temporarily register as the dock and then register the dock as the dock again immediately afterwards, not sure. I think the call you'd be wanting to investigate as CoreDockRegisterDockOwner in HIServices.framework.
FinlayDobbie
You could also use APE or similar to do control the windows, or (as mentioned above) register as the Dock (look for the private APIs with Universal Connection in their name). Has anyone found a polite way of getting the Dock to give up its universal connection? The only way I can find is to force quit the Dock and grab the universal connection when it's not looking (which prevents the dock reloading).
SamTaylor
There's an open source project up on sourceforge.net that looks much more like the window managers I've used on Unix boxes than Space.app (or Space.dock): http://wsmanager.sourceforge.net/
SteveCook
Verifying things work
This is what I learned, from the sources at bottom of this post, we see all these functions work with CGWindowIds, so how do I get that, this is how:
Get all windows with CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo. Then access each element from that array with CFArrayGetValueAtIndex and then get the CGWindowId with objectForKey:, kCGWindowNumber, and then integerValue.
Now if I try to focus or set level of a window that is OWNED by the app running the code, it works fantastic. For instance:
MY_TARGET_CGWINDOW_ID = 179;
rez_CGError = CGSOrderWindow(_CGSDefaultConnection, MY_TARGET_CGWINDOW_ID, kCGSOrderAbove, 0);
Will focus it, rez_CGError is 0. Even if the window is minimized, it is unminimized, without animation, and shown.
Now however, if I try this on a window of a different app we get some errors:
MY_TARGET_CGWINDOW_ID_of_other_app = 40;
rez_CGError = CGSOrderWindow(_CGSDefaultConnection, MY_TARGET_CGWINDOW_ID_of_other_app, kCGSOrderAbove, 0);
This fails and rez_CGError is 1000, which I suspect means "cid (CGSConnection) used does not have permission to modify target window". The same happens if I first do [app activateWithOptions: (NSApplicationActivateIgnoringOtherApps | NSApplicationActivateAllWindows)] before making the call above.
So I first get the cid of that owning window like this:
var rez_CGError = CGSGetWindowOwner(_CGSDefaultConnection, MY_TARGET_CGWINDOW_ID_of_other_app, &ownerCid);
This works good and I get ownerCid is set to a value. Then I do the focus command with this new connection:
rez_CGError = CGSOrderWindow(ownerCid, MY_TARGET_CGWINDOW_ID_of_other_app, kCGSOrderAbove, 0);
However this gives rez_CGError of 268435459, which I suspect means "current app does not have permission to use this ConnectionId (cid)". (Same happens if I call activateWithOptions first.
My Sources for the Private Functions
Here is the sources for some private functions I found - https://code.google.com/p/undocumented-goodness/source/browse/trunk/CoreGraphics/CGSPrivate.h
This one source here contains a function that is not in the above link - CGSGetConnectionIDForPSN - i test it and it exists - from - https://github.com/mnutt/libqxt/blob/767498816dfa1742a6f3aee787281745afec11b8/src/gui/qxtwindowsystem_mac.h#L80
I wrote this little program which is supposed to print the current frontmost application twice, with a 3-second break in between.
void printFrontmostApp() {
NSRunningApplication *frontmostApplication = [NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace].frontmostApplication;
NSLog(#"%#",frontmostApplication);
}
int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) {
#autoreleasepool {
printFrontmostApp();
sleep(3);
printFrontmostApp();
}
return 0;
}
When I ran this program, I realised that frontmostApplication is not refreshed when it is called the second time. I found the solution here. But I still have two questions:
1) I want to know why the frontmostApplication is not updated.
2) How do I force it to refresh every time I call it? I don't want to receive a notification every time the frontmost application deactivates, because it is a little inefficient for my purposes.
Edit:
Just to be crystal clear, let's suppose the time now is 10:00:00. I call printFrontmostApp, and it prints "Xcode" to the console, because Xcode is the current frontmost app. Then the program sleeps for 3 seconds. At 10:00:01, I opened another app, say TextEdit. At 10:00:03, my program calls printFrontmostApp for the second time. I expect it to print "TextEdit", which is the current frontmost application. But it prints "Xcode" instead. I can't understand this behaviour.
Can someone please explain what happens at 10:00:03? The function seems to "remember" the value of frontmostApplication at 10:00:00 and retains it when it is called the second time. I thought that any memory will be released once it goes out of scope, so why is this happening?
And how do I get my program to get the frontmost app at 10:00:03? I can get the frontmost app at 10:00:00, I should be able to do the same 3 seconds later right?
The documentation for -[NSWorkspace runningApplications] — not the method you're using, but related — says:
Similar to the NSRunningApplication class’s properties, this property will only change when the main run loop is run in a common mode. Instead of polling, use key-value observing to be notified of changes to this array property.
From the NSRunningApplication documentation:
Properties that vary over time are inherently race-prone. For example, a hidden app may unhide itself at any time. To ameliorate this, properties persist until the next turn of the main run loop in a common mode. For example, if you repeatedly poll an unhidden app for its hidden property without allowing the run loop to run, it will continue to return NO, even if the app hides, until the next turn of the run loop.
It's a near certainty that the same principle applies to -frontmostApplication even though the documentation doesn't say so explicitly. You will never get different results by polling without allowing the run loop to run.
For 1) the answer is the same described in the question you have linked: You have to observe this notification, that tells you when a new application was activated:
NSWorkspaceDidActivateApplicationNotification
About 2) You have different observers for activation and deactivation like:
NSWorkspaceDidDeactivateApplicationNotification
So your are not going to observe notifications that you are not registered, please take a look at NSWorkspace Notifications for a comprehensive list.
Otherwise, please define your question about refreshing/polling (that I think it's not a good idea anyways).
I have made like an "Asteroid" copy, that works pretty well! I made it with different modules (enemies, controls and background). Now I have also made like a starting screen, where the player can choose to play the game, view highscores etc.
The problem is that I have no clue how to implement this into a storyboard.. I might have misunderstood the use of modules.
I am starting in a Scene1, which is the intro+buttons to start the game. Next, I want to move to scene2(when player presses start button), and that seems to be no problem, and scene 1 gets purged. But when I die, I want to move to scene1 again. Problem is that some listeners dont get removed, and the game crashes shortly after scene switch.
I guess the main problem is that in my scene2, I have put in require("background"), enemies and controls in my enterscene, which I dont know how to remove when it should be purged.
Ive entered all of the modules and put them in the same group that gets purged on exitscene, but not everything gets removed.
How do you think I would fix this the easiest way? I am very new to Corona and still in a early learning stage.
Display objects, like display.newImageRect()'s and display.newText() that are created in the createScene() function and added to the "group" display group will be automatically removed when the scene is purged.
Any timers, transitions, or audio.plays that have onComplete handlers, as well as network requests and any event handler that attaches to the Runtime must be removed by hand. If you're various object you are creating are doing any of these things, their remove functions should undo these actions so that removing them will clean them up.
I find it best if I'm adding runtime handlers, timers, etc. to do it in enterScene() and make sure I undo them in exitScene(). Then if its something that is done in createScene() it should be cleaned up in destoryScene().
modules are kind deprecated to start.
Second, putting stuff in other files and calling them with "require" is supposed to be used to call libraries, not code that will run. "require" is not a dofile, or a eval, it will run once, and only once (when the first "require" of the file is made).
If you still want to put things in other files, like loading your background, you need to do a "background.lua" file that has a "background.load()" function and a "background.unload()" function, and call them in appropriate places.
Hi I would like to pause the execution of a function in an cocoa project. I dont want to use sleep() because the function needs to resume after user interaction. I also want to avoid doing this with multiple calls to sleep.
Thanks for your responses. Ok I started the code while waiting for some answers. I then realized that sleep or pause would not be usefull to me because it freeses my whole program. I think I might have to do some threading. Here is the situation:
I have a program that uses coreplot. I also use it to debug and develop algorithms so I do lots of plots while the data is being processed (ie in the midfle of the code but I need the flexibility to put it anywhaere so I cant separate my function). I was able to do this with NSRunAlertPanel but having a message box like that doesnt make it very presentable and I cant do much with the main window while an alert is open.
I hope I am not too confusing with my explanation but if I am ill try to one line it here:
I would like to interact with my cocoa interface while one of my functions is stopped in the middle of what it is doing.
Its sounds to me like you're looking for -NSRunLoop runUntilDate:
Apple's Docs: runUntilDate
This code will cause the execution within your method to pause but still let other events like timers and user input occur:
while ( functionShouldPause )
{
[[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] runUntilDate:[NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:1]];
}
Switching functionShouldPause back to false will allow the rest of the method to execute.
It seems more like you are interested in reacting to user events rather than "pausing" the function. You would probably want to put the code that you want to execute into another function that is called as a result of the user's actions.
In C you can use the pause() function in <unistd.h>. This causes the calling program to suspend until it receives a signal, at which point the pause call will return and your program will continue (or call a signal handler; depending on what signal was received).
So it sounds like you want to break the function into two parts; the bit that happens before the sleep and the bit that happens afterward. Before going to sleep, register for a notification that calls the "after" code, and can be triggered by the UI (by an IBAction connected to whatever UI element). Now instead of calling sleep(), run the run loop for the period you want to go to sleep for, then after that has returned post the "after" notification. In the "after" code, remove the object as an observer for that notification. Now, whichever happens first - the time runs out or the user interrupts you - you get to run the "after" code.
Isn't there a clock or timer function? When your button is pressed start running a loop like timeTillAction = 10 and do a loop of timeTillAction = timeTillAction - 1 until it reaches 0 then run whatever code after the 10 seconds.
Sorry if this isn't well explained.