also is it possible to copy and past rich text? I'm mass-editing a lot of repeating header-font text in a field and it'd be lovely if I can copy rich-text and paste back rich-text
really worried that these questions are dumb() sorry!)
I think I see the problem. You've defined an "on command ..." function for the card, and defined some custom commands. This function will capture any "command" events sent to the card, which means the deck-level function that normally passes unhandled commands along to puppeteer:
on command x do pt.command[deck x] end
Doesn't get a chance to do its work!
You'll need to add a final "else" to the command handler on your card and pass unhandled events on to Puppeteer. You can do this directly:
on command x do if x~"mycommand1" #... elseif x~"mycommand2" #... else pt.command[deck x] end end
Or you can use "send" to bubble the event up to the deck-level definition:
on command x do if x~"mycommand1" #... elseif x~"mycommand2" #... else send command[x] end end
If you've added more "global" custom commands to the deck-level handler- in addition to those defined on the card- you'll want to use "send". Make sense?
Currently, copying text from a field always copies the plain-text equivalent of the selection. I'll give some thought to an alternative for rich text; perhaps an alternate "Copy Rich Text" menu item/shortcut.
18 days ago(+1)
Ah thank you so very much!!! I kinda guessed that might be the problem. I'm definitely warming up to Decker now, thank you for all the timely answers and being so encouraging!
Sorry, follow up question, does this contradict when I have two or more puppets on one card?
because when I do a:
pt.command[deck "!show NAME1 EMOTE customPOS1" "!show NAME2 EMOTE customPOS2" ]
only the first line (whichever comes first) gets executed.
On this occasion though:
pt.command[deck "!show NAME1 EMOTE customPOS1" ] pt.command[deck "!show NAME2 EMOTE customPOS2" ]
both can appear just fine.
Might be some other problem in my design, still checking it out, but shooting the question first)
ah and also trying to show any puppet with stage directions results in them snapping to "topleft" instead of the assigned place. Custom positions work fine.
Moving any puppet from offstage to custom position is also odd? I tried with boxy in the guided tour, but rather than "move from offstage to custom position" it did a diagonal line downwards. Not sure what I'm doing wrong here, but I have so much questions.
If you want to issue multiple commands with one call to pt.command[], the second argument will need to be a list of strings. Placing a comma between strings joins them together into a list, even if they're spread across multiple lines:
pt.command[deck "!show NAME1 EMOTE customPOS1", "!show NAME2 EMOTE customPOS2" ]
The above is equivalent to:
pt.command[deck ("!show NAME1 EMOTE customPOS1","!show NAME2 EMOTE customPOS2")]
Carefully check the spelling and capitalization of the positions you're specifying against the diagram of stage directions, and that the arguments to Puppeteer's commands are in the correct order. For example, !move takes a POS as its second argument and does not alter EMOTE, while !anim does not take a POS argument or an EMOTE argument.
There are a number of working examples in the documentation; you could try changing them bit by bit to approach your use-case. If you're getting yourself confused by a complicated project, try making a new deck from scratch and assembling the smallest possible example that demonstrates the problem you observe.
Thank you for your infinite patience!
I actually found out that the "snapping to topleft" problem seems to be a browser/desktop issue for a prior version of decker. I've updated to 1.41 and it is fixed for me!
Again much thanks to all the helpful answers and being so encouraging! Hope you have a great day🏃
(for reference, how the desktop version behaves before I updated:)
Glad you were able to resolve your problem!
Be aware that importing modules into your decks adds a copy of the module to your deck; occasionally Decker release notes may point out updates to Dialogizer, Puppeteer, or other modules that are included with Decker. If you want to be certain you're using the latest version of a module, you can use the Resources dialog to remove dd/pt/etc and then re-import them.