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No visual clues in operators for strings vs numbers vs...

See original GitHub issue

Observed in the catch game playtest video:

Trying to check for the y position of the apple being below -170.

First they typed the text ‘y position’ into the first operand instead of finding the y-position reporter. They did eventually realize it didn’t match the card and found the reporter.

They typed “- 170” with a space between the - and the 170. This turned the value into a string, and the operator was never true. They never figured this one out.

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Created 6 years ago
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CosmicWebServicescommented, Jul 13, 2017

@heyitsmeuralex I mean that is good if they manually inputed it and not put it in like a variable…

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nanaiancommented, Jul 13, 2017

Perhaps give the input a red border when an invalid value is given, similar to 1.4’s divide-by-zero behaviour…?

Adding a tooltip to it too (e.g. “This should be a number!”) would be a good idea, no?

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