Post by L'alpha Lara in Thanks to this tool, I’ve made the very first game of my life!

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Hi everyone, I’ve finished the English version of my game！ It now has around 1,000 cards in total. To maintain stable frame rates, I’ve been making them separately using individual software tools, which has still been quite a massive undertaking.

Now I’ve run into a new issue. When I export the game, the top toolbar disappears as intended, but it leaves an unremovable white blank box in its place. One of my fans who’s played the game noticed this problem and sent me a fix, but unfortunately I can’t locate the corresponding buttons at all.

I tried looking for the "draw" setting and pressing the M key to hide the box, yet nothing changed. I’ve pretty much forgotten how to resolve this. Does anyone have a detailed step‑by‑step guide with screenshots? I feel like I need someone to walk me through this process step by step…

Screwtapello5 days ago(+2)

Decker cards are 512×342 pixels, but by default (in “unlocked” mode) the top 16 pixels are covered by the menu bar.

When you save deck as “locked”, that menu-bar no longer appears, and you get to see the pixels that were under it instead.

Obviously it’s not great to have pixels that will be visible in the final product that you can’t see while working on it, so if you’re using one of the drawing tools (selection, pencil, lasso, line, etc.) and you press the “m” key, the menu bar will be hidden so you can draw underneath it. You can get the menu back by pressing “m” again, or by switching to the “interact” or “widget” tools - by pressing the F1 or F2 keys, or by clicking on them in the toolbar if you have that visible.

L'alpha Lara5 days ago(+2)

Got it, I’ll give it a try 💪🏼

Internet Janitor5 days ago(+2)

If you're looking for a quick and easy fix on a large deck that has 16 pixels of unwanted empty space above every card, you could use The Listener to fill the rectangle of every card covered by the menu with solid black like so:

each c in deck.cards
 c.image.paste[image[c.size[0],16].map[0 dict 1]]
end

The Listener is a very powerful tool for doing things that would otherwise be extremely tedious and repetitive.

I strongly recommend experimenting with this sort of thing in a backup copy of your deck to ensure you don't accidentally lose work!

L'alpha Lara4 days ago

Now I’ve run into another problem. I’m using the new version of Decker, but when I tried to export the HTML file, this error window suddenly popped up. I also noticed that the taskbar from my previous build is still there, so it seems to be related to one of the plugins. I tried searching for anything with the word "trim" in Notepad, but unfortunately, I have no idea how to fix it.I recall that the top‑level taskbar was hidden in previous exports. Now I’m trying to get it hidden again, so perhaps I need to look for an alternative fix？现在我又遇到了另一个问题。我正在使用新版Decker，但当我尝试导出HTML文件时，突然弹出了这个错误窗口。我还注意到，我之前版本的任务栏仍然存在，看来这似乎与某个插件有关。我试着在记事本中搜索包含“trim”一词的任何内容，但遗憾的是，我完全不知道该如何修复它。我记得在之前的导出文件中，顶级任务栏是隐藏的。现在我正试图再次将其隐藏起来，所以也许我需要寻找一种替代的解决方法？

Millie Squilly4 days ago(+2)

This error will be from the new version of Decker making some changes that necessitated some updates to some of the modules. You'll need to update the "twee" module using the newer version in the Decker examples folder - you should be able to just import it over the top of the old one.

L'alpha Lara4 days ago(+1)

I’ve just updated the plugin! I also went through the Phinxel documentation and found the program with the lock feature — thanks so much for the manual!

However, the new version of Decker seems different from the original one. I’d still like to keep my old setting: have the page permanently pinned to the taskbar right after exporting it as HTML. But I have no idea how to do that now 😇. I feel like I asked about this before. Also, I can’t even remember the keyboard shortcut for “Save As”.T-T

L'alpha Lara4 days ago(+3)

Please ignore my previous questions! I’ve gone through the manual carefully again and realized that I keep missing key details because I’m reading too quickly. (Yes, exporting via the Protect option is the solution, not using Save As). I’ve fixed the issues now. Thank you all so much!XD

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