I am making a flash card deck for learning Portuguese phrases and I ran into a display problem. Characters with accents are not displaying correctly on the playdate. Has anyone gotten special characters to work successfully?
Examples from my deck:
Where do you work?\Onde você trabalha? (você displayed as voc)
How do you say ‘game’ in Portuguese?\Como se diz ‘game’ em português? (Single quotes are dropped and português is displayed as portugus)
I don’t know yet.\Ainda não sei. (não is displayed as no)
With the fonts "pixel" and "sans" the special characters seem to get dropped. With menu option Custom Fonts:Off the special characters are replaced with a white box.
I saved the text file with Unicode UTF-8 encoding. The linked webpage for the font "pixel" (UniPixels Plane0) shows the special characters.
I have made two decks, one is center aligned, and the other is left aligned (with quite a large margin on the left). Is there an option in the text file or the options inside the game that changes this? I can't work out why the two files align differently.
Currently it’s a bit of a hack that I can’t believe is still in there and still unmentioned. Left alignment is triggered by the text bullet “- “ sequence of characters, so it’s per card mostly added for items with lists so they all align.
How would you like it to work? I’ll improve this for 1.2.
I feel like it currently works pretty well. It just confused me initially because I pasted some text with a random dash in it & the whole card changed.
The only thing I would say is maybe move the text a little bit towards the left, as it is quite a big left margin. Otherwise, a great app!
This is completely brilliant! Thank you for releasing it.
My only issue upon first use is the way the crank operates: I turn the crank in the direction that feels natural for me to go forward in the card order, but instead it goes backward. Perhaps we have different intuitions about this? I think this could be corrected with an option to invert the crank direction.
Oh, and is there a list mode that lists all the decks and lets you select from them? I didn't see one but it would be nice.
Hold on, now I might understand upon trying it out some more.
The problem isn't the crank direction. The crank direction fits the animation. The problem is that the animation doesn't make sense to me. One card is lifted up to reveal another card lying under it, right? That card lying under it should be the NEXT card in the sequence. Instead it's the PREVIOUS card. So I'll be on card 39, and it gets lifted up to reveal the card under it, which is card 38. That makes no sense to me, it should be card 40.
I’ve addressed this in version 1.1, there were a few changes required but it feels/looks much better and more obvious. Most immediately you’ll notice that left/right have been swapped, and new cards come in and go on top.
When I try the "little rapa" deck, the dpad and buttons do nothing on the "Welcome, traveler" slide. I can crank to advance, but then it's no longer a game.
Thanks for this great bug report! I need to disable and ignore the crank in game mode. If the crank is out, game mode will currently not work correctly. Once you dock the crank, it will work. On the welcome slide, you can press any button to proceed.
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Hey! Question 👀 Is it possible to sideload the txt files via Playdate website? Or just data disk mode?
Only via data disk mode, system limitation.
How can I see the answers on quiz?
Press the A button
Cool app!
I am making a flash card deck for learning Portuguese phrases and I ran into a display problem. Characters with accents are not displaying correctly on the playdate. Has anyone gotten special characters to work successfully?
Examples from my deck:
With the fonts "pixel" and "sans" the special characters seem to get dropped. With menu option Custom Fonts:Off the special characters are replaced with a white box.
I saved the text file with Unicode UTF-8 encoding. The linked webpage for the font "pixel" (UniPixels Plane0) shows the special characters.
Thanks! I’ll have to add those characters to the fonts. I’m afraid it will have to wait until after Christmas. Apologies.
Really liking the app. Just one question
I have made two decks, one is center aligned, and the other is left aligned (with quite a large margin on the left). Is there an option in the text file or the options inside the game that changes this? I can't work out why the two files align differently.
Currently it’s a bit of a hack that I can’t believe is still in there and still unmentioned. Left alignment is triggered by the text bullet “- “ sequence of characters, so it’s per card mostly added for items with lists so they all align.
How would you like it to work? I’ll improve this for 1.2.
I feel like it currently works pretty well. It just confused me initially because I pasted some text with a random dash in it & the whole card changed.
The only thing I would say is maybe move the text a little bit towards the left, as it is quite a big left margin. Otherwise, a great app!
This is the only issue that I couldn’t get to for 1.2, will look at it ASAP in future.
Where do you put the txt files? Not sure how to install them.
Good question! It’s can be tricky the first time.
com.gingerbeardman.strategies.decks.Sideloaded manually:
/PLAYDATE/Data/com.gingerbeardman.strategies/decksSideloaded via Playdate website:
/PLAYDATE/Data/user.XXXX.com.gingerbeardman.strategies/decksThis is completely brilliant! Thank you for releasing it.
My only issue upon first use is the way the crank operates: I turn the crank in the direction that feels natural for me to go forward in the card order, but instead it goes backward. Perhaps we have different intuitions about this? I think this could be corrected with an option to invert the crank direction.
Oh, and is there a list mode that lists all the decks and lets you select from them? I didn't see one but it would be nice.
Hold on, now I might understand upon trying it out some more.
The problem isn't the crank direction. The crank direction fits the animation. The problem is that the animation doesn't make sense to me. One card is lifted up to reveal another card lying under it, right? That card lying under it should be the NEXT card in the sequence. Instead it's the PREVIOUS card. So I'll be on card 39, and it gets lifted up to reveal the card under it, which is card 38. That makes no sense to me, it should be card 40.
Yes, I see what you mean regarding the next/prev card. I’ll take another look and fix this! Thanks.
I’ll look into a long list of the decks, too. But no promises for that one.
I’ve addressed this in version 1.1, there were a few changes required but it feels/looks much better and more obvious. Most immediately you’ll notice that left/right have been swapped, and new cards come in and go on top.
Awesome, looking forward to digging into 1.1!
Also I've been using this app with a number of my own custom decks now. Works great!
Great! Keen to hear about the types of decks you’re using so I can make sure you have everything you need for a good experience.
When I try the "little rapa" deck, the dpad and buttons do nothing on the "Welcome, traveler" slide. I can crank to advance, but then it's no longer a game.
Thanks for this great bug report! I need to disable and ignore the crank in game mode. If the crank is out, game mode will currently not work correctly. Once you dock the crank, it will work. On the welcome slide, you can press any button to proceed.
This is now fixed in version 1.1, by disabling the crank in game mode. Thanks again for reporting it!