Communication issue (msg.post problem) (SOLVED)

anon82366986 · January 24, 2019, 11:43pm

Hey there,

I have just ran into yet another annoying communication issue…
My goal is to have my “score” script (gui_script) post a message to the “level select” script (gui_script.) When the “level select” script receives this message, it will allow for the next level to be unlocked.
But the message isn’t sending!

That was the error I got. You could see that the third line down shows the url. I copied and pasted that into the message script. Still getting this error

Here is the msg.post that communicates between the the “score” and “level select” scripts.

The msg.post is at the bottom.

Thank you for your time taking a look at this, your best effort in helping me will greatly be appreciated!
Thank you so much again!

Pkeod · January 24, 2019, 11:48pm

How is your levelSelectCollection loaded or is it a part of the main.collection?

Is the collection name properly set?

anon82366986 · January 24, 2019, 11:53pm

The levelSelectCollection is loaded through a collection proxy, that is:

The game is loaded up with 3 options: Start Game, Level Select, Exit Game.
Player clicks on “Level Select” which loads the level select collection. The collection has a single gameobject, this is the level select gui.
Player selects “Level 1” and plays

And yes, the collection is named correctly.

anon82366986 · January 24, 2019, 11:55pm

What do you think the issue is?

anon82366986 · January 25, 2019, 12:01am

If you would like I can provide full scripts of anything you may need.

britzl · January 25, 2019, 4:51am

Please share the whole project and I’ll take a look. Either here or in an email to me (bjorn.ritzl@king.com)

anon82366986 · January 25, 2019, 2:50pm

Thank you very much. Right now tough I am unaware of how to share a project with someone? Can you tell me?

britzl · January 25, 2019, 2:55pm

If your project has been created from the Defold dashboard you can add me as a team member (from the Team tab).

If you have the project stored locally on disk or in a private GitHub repo it’s easier to simply zip the entire project folder (excluding .git, .internal and build folders) and e-mail the project or share via some cloud service.

anon82366986 · January 25, 2019, 3:29pm

Ok, so I added you as a team member, as well as sent you an email. I’m not sure if I sent the correct files though.

I selected bundle.
Windows application.
Then emailed you the files within that folder.

Is that the correct way of doing this?
(Sorry. I’m not yet that familiar with defold.)

Thank you again for all your help!

britzl · January 25, 2019, 3:30pm

I need the source code to be able to help. But if you added me as a team member then that is enough. I’ll take a look!

britzl · January 25, 2019, 3:34pm

You haven’t synchronized your files to the dashboard. Please follow these steps to upload the code you have to the dashboard so that I can take a look: https://www.defold.com/manuals/workflow/#_synchronizing

Vgreen · January 25, 2019, 6:00pm

This is my new account. Britzl, I emailed you about an issue that I am having. If you have any insight or a path to a solution that would be greatly appreciated.

britzl · January 25, 2019, 6:18pm

Not really sure what you did there, but you mentioned that you deleted your account (why?) but made a copy of the project. Please send that copy over to me and I can take a look. You can create a new empty project on your new account and copy the project files to the empty project (make sure to exclude .git folder if you happened to copy that as well!).

Vgreen · January 26, 2019, 5:33pm

Thank you so much!
I emailed you the correct zipped folder, and I was also able to sync the game, and add you as a team member. More details are in the email that I sent you.
Thank you so very much!

Cheers
VG

britzl · January 26, 2019, 9:44pm

Ok, I’ve taken a look at the code and here is my analysis:

You have a loader.collection with a loader.script as boostrap collection
The loader.collection has collection proxies for menu.collection, levelSelect.collection and level1.collection to level5.collection
Loading of the various collections are done by the loader.script
The levels contain a score gui with the score.gui_script you mention
When you have finished a level the score gui tries to post a message to a component in the levelSelect.collection
The problem is that the levelSelect.collection isn’t loaded.

Your solution would be to post a message from score.gui_script to the loader.script and ask it to load the levelSelect.collection as well as unlock the next level.

Vgreen · January 27, 2019, 5:01pm

Thank you so much!
I have been able to get a ton of things to work now!
You have been so much help, thank you!