You can just say something like:
field1.text:alert["What's your name?" "string"]
Here’s an Ask button that asks the question, and sticks the response into a field:
%%WGT0{"w":[{"name":"field1","type":"field","size":[100,20],"pos":[154,108],"value":"blorp"},{"name":"button1","type":"button","size":[60,20],"pos":[174,74],"script":"on click do\n field1.text:alert[\"What's your name?\" \"string\"]\nend","text":"Ask"}],"d":{}}
All questions welcome!
When you import an image into Decker, it has the selection box around it, right? And when you click outside the box, the image is placed on the back of the card.
But you can also copy (or cut) the image while it's still inside that selection box, switch to Widget Mode... and in the Edit menu select "Paste as new Canvas".
Personally I like to turn on the Toolbars (Decker > Toolbars) for this, to save a click while switching back and forth between importing/drawing and pasting my images into canvases.
Also, anytime your image is on the back of a card you can draw a selection box around it and then use the Edit menu option "Tight Selection" to shrink the selection to only contain your artwork.
As a follow up, I’ve tried creating variables too, but it didn’t work either.
I’m trying to make an invisible counter tracking the amount of time a player visited a card (and could be reset), so like a numerical variable…
EDIT AGAIN: Counters. That’s how it works. then add +1 to the text. Got it.
Just for the record, you can represent counters using a field widget via its .text or .data attributes, or alternatively you could use a slider widget via its .value attribute. Sliders are slightly more convenient than fields for representing numeric values within a known range, since their .value is always a number and is automatically "clamped".
Widgets set to "Show None" behave identically to visible widgets from a scripting perspective; they "remember" their contents across events and when the deck is saved. If there are any widgets whose contents you don't want preserved, you can mark them as Volatile. Sometimes volatile widgets are useful for "resetting" the state of a game.
Does that help clarify?