Is there an easy way in Lil to round a fraction to an integer?

I’m trying to render text to a canvas, centered within a given area. That’s easy enough, I can just measure the text string, subtract it from the available width, divide by 2, and use that as the left edge:

# Measure the text, minus the extra space at the end
textsize:canvas.textsize[text] - (canvas.font.space,0)
 
# Render the text centered
canvas.text[text pos+(size-textsize)/2]

If I’m drawing an even-width string into an even-width box, or an odd-width string into an odd-width box, that works perfectly. Otherwise, the coordinates wind up with a fractional part, which Decker truncates to 0, meaning that text that can’t be mathematically centred is shifted to the left.

That’s just mathematics and there’s not much to do about it, except that the strings I’m rendering tend to be Title Case, so they’re already visually weighted to the left. I think it would look a little better if fractional coordinates were rounded up rather than down, balancing the Title Case rather than reinforcing it, while leaving the mathematically-centred text (no fractional part) alone. Again that’s pretty easy:

canvas.text[text pos+(0.5,0)+(size-textsize)/2]

That works perfectly… unless the box I’m rendering into is also centred, which means it already has a 0.5 offset. In that case, the even-string-in-even-box and odd-string-in-odd-box wind up worse - instead of being rounded away, the extra 0.5 adds up to extra offset. I figure if I can round pos before using it in calculations, I can prevent errors from accumulating, something like this:

# I wish this worked!
pos:makeint[pos]

Playing around, it looks like I can probably do this with:

pos:bits.or[pos 0]

…but that seems a bit hacky. Is there a cleaner way to do this?

Sorry if this has been answered already, but is there a way for a widget to automatically trigger on mouseover?

Any way to run lil language as independent file format , like edit and run in vs code? I like its simple and comprehensive way to manipulate table and list.

Recently, I encountered a problem when learning text dialogue and canvas bit movement painting: 1. DD follows the steps in the tutorial, and the dialog box cannot appear
2. Zazz can't exercise according to the steps in the tutorial

Even if you copy the card from the tutorial to your local computer, it has no effect.

Hi, I have a question about alert when it can prompt for a string. Probably the most basic use case imaginable, how can I write that input into a widget? E.g.

alert ["What's your name?" "string"]

And then write that name to a widget called "field1" or something? Sorry if folks have answered this before, I found a few cool threads on logging text from a field but I genuinely couldn't find anything on how to use this for alert specifically.

This is going to be such a stupid question but I just feel so lost....how do I import an image to a canvas to use with dialogizer? Do I have to create the images in the canvas and lock it in Decker? If I try to import an image as is, it just becomes a static object I can't interact with after I'm done changing its size. 

Hi! Probably basic question incoming, but I’m stuck…

I’m trying to track whether the player is wearing a cloak to display certain widgets or to send them to a specific card. I’ve created a checkbox for this, and when manually clicked on/off, the conditionals are tracked properly.

The issue I’m running into is that I can’t seem to change the value of that checkbox via Lil directly. As in, if the player click the Start button, the checkbox is enabled (because they wear the cloak at the start of the game), and if the player clicks the button “Hang Cloak”, the checkbox is disabled. Or it should be.

~~So far, I’ve tried:

Cloakroom.widgets.WearCloak.value:true

and

Cloakroom.widgets.WearCloak.value:true
Cloakroom.widgets.WearCloak.event["change" Cloakroom.widgets.WearCloak.value]

~~ I feel like I’m missing something but I don’t know what/how… EDIT: I FOUND THE ISSUE! I wrote true instead of 0/1….

Also, follow up question: if the display of the checkbox is “Invisible”, is the value of the Checkbox still accessible? (If not, I’ll just hide it behind some text :P )

Thanks in advance!

So I know that & and | work like a boolean AND and OR but is there anything that works like an XOR?

TLDR eval->dd.say isn’t passing rich-text into the dialogizer In your Dialogizer deck, on the rich-text card, you mention that it’s easier to style by throwing rich-text into a field and having it parse using the eval method. So I’ve got a field, i’ve got it set to invisible in the card script, I’ve got a button that does the eval method. Everything is working well except that it isn’t showing the styling I’ve set in the field.  I’ll mention, just as I typed this I tried to add a hyperlink in the same way (just manually add it to the field) and it also didn’t pass through the parsing operation.

Forgive me, I’m one of those dudes who got by in the 00s by just manually deleting html and css stuff and adding it back to “create my own myspace profile”. Like, that’s my level of coding know-how. I’m sure this question is voiced annoyingly; I’m trying to use words I’m not fluent with. Thank you for everything you do here IG.

I’ve got another, probably totally silly question,  (I promise I look through all the documentation, the problem is that I’m basically illiterate in basic coding). As you’ll see in this video (how do you folks get those cool embedded videos to happen without using youtube?) I’m running a card script which evals the field on the left (called cardscript; yes i know the text above the field has a space, trust me it’s labled without the space).  I’ve defined a (dunno what to call it) thing called “fields” which I want to use as a bucket to hold all of the fields i wish to make invisible at when I click “eval below”.  As you can see, when I just define the thing as ’source’ it works, but when I add a comma and include ‘cardscript’, not only does it fail to include cardscript, but now source remains visible.

Secondary issue: The !alert works, but does not retain the richtext formatting.

Hi, I noticed a discrepancy in behaviour between native decker and exported HTML decker  and was wondering if anyone knew why.

Basically wanted a looping sound to play “on view” of the very first card in the deck:

on view do

play[“sound1””loop”]

end

In native decker, this seems to work. I believe I also got it to work in web decker directly. But I am finding in a web decker protected export from native, it only plays the sound once (and weirdly, after clicking into the deck). However, if you do it as a second card you view through some other trigger, the same  code works in web / native.

Are there a special considerations for doing “view” actions on the very first card? 

Many thanks in advance if anyone knows…

Hello! I'm discovering Lil and setting myself some little challenges. While I'm used to a lot of other languages, I'm wondering if there is a simple way to declare lists of lists. 

My intuition would be

(0,1), (2, 3)

but this actually is the same as (0, 1, 2, 3). I guess that while () is the empty list, parenthesis aren't lists delimiters as [] in other languages. I understand that comma is the concatenator for lists and that the correct solution to my problem would be

(list 0 1), (list 2,3)

but I'm wondering if there's a more elegant solution.

Thank you!

With the "Make Magnet" contraption in the "All About Draggables" deck, I'd like to make the draggable canvases made with it spawn with a script. How can I do this?

Trying to make an audio loop whenever a checkbox is enabled, but no idea how to make the script actually know if the checkbox is enabled or disabled. Right now, all I have is

```

on click do      

  play["bg1" "loop"]      

end

```

How do I add some sort of "if true" function, I've looked in documentations and tutorials and there's still nothing.

I want to create a cipher of sorts. Be able to replace letters with other letters. If possible, I would also like to be able to replace sequences of letters with either individual letters or sequences.

So far, I was able to create a code that copies text from one field into another. I'd display it, but this is my first time replying to this forum and I don't know how to format text yet.

Some questions I have about grids:
1. What are some ways that I could "lock," for lack of a better term, a column of a grid? I mean, I suspect I can use a format function to make it so that whenever a cell in that column gets changed to something else that it would replace the original letter, but I'm only half aware on how to pull that off and curious as to whether their exists a lock function for parts of a grid. But I digress.

2. Follow-up question to the first one, how would I rearrange the order of values in a column via button pressing? For example, changing the arrangement of values in a column, letters specifically, from alphabetical to by frequency, etc.

3. Is it possible to extract the values from a column in a grid and turn it into a string that can be used in dictionary functions?

How do I make a canvas move via arrow keys being pressed? Also, how do I go to another card when the canvas is in a certain position. Do I need a grid to be able to do both of these things?

Is this intended or a bug? Assigning get/set with the keystore appears to strip a level of list.

Or am I missing something?

lib: ()

lib.test: on _ do
  a: (list (list (list 1,2,3)))
  data.a: a
  show[data.a]
  data.a: data.a
  show[data.a]
  data.a: data.a
  show[data.a]
  data.a: data.a
  show[data.a]
  
  x: (list (list (list 4,5,6)))
  y: (list (list 7,8,9))
  z: (list 10,11,12)
  w: 13,14,15
  
  data.x: x
  show[data.x]
  data.y: y
  show[data.y]
  data.z: z
  show[data.z]
  data.w: w
  show[data.w]
  
  nil
end

will produce:

(((1,2,3)))
((1,2,3))
(1,2,3)
1
(((4,5,6)))
((7,8,9))
(10,11,12)
13
nil

This was run in v1.62 Decker

How would one go about creating an inventory, or at least a tracker to ensure you've already clicked something? I tried going about it like this

on click do
t+1
if  t>1
alert["You already grabbed the pie tin!"]
alert[t]
else
 t+1
 alert["You found the pie tin! Weirdcat put it out for you already, it looks like!"]
 alert[t]
 end
end

Hello! I think this question is probably rooted in my coding experience being from Java, so I keep trying to apply incorrect formatting here. 

I have a field widget called "name"  on card "A" where I want the player to type their name, and I have a locked field widget called "hellotext" on card "B" where I want it to say "hello [name] how are you?" 

Ive been trying to do this with the following code in B's card script but I keep getting the output "0" in "hellotext"

hellotext.text: "Hi " + deck.cards.A.widgets.name.text + " how are you?"

I also tried 

hellotext.text: fuse "Hi ",deck.cards.A.widgets.name.text, " how are you?"

but that gave me the error " 'fuse' is a keyword, and cannot be used for a variable name."

Sorry for such a simple question but I'm really stumped!