Is the web browser still missing elements of the desktop version?

[David-Jareth-Bowie]

Last I heard, the web browser were missing some features. Is that still the case now?

[KVonGit]

Hello,

Yes, the online editor has a few differences. We were just discussing that on Discord: https://discord.com/channels/1278365322054996018/1314620834467545200/1335750884684206081

If you're not on Discord, here is a Quest doc with a brief summary of the differencess: https://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/webeditor.html

In the end, I think the only thing we truly can't do in the web editor is override existing functions.

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Also, the player itself should run games nearly the same whether online or using the desktop version once Quest 5.9 is released, and the first release candidate was dropped today. So, the official release shouldn't be too far out.

[David-Jareth-Bowie]

#1453 (reply in thread)

In this thread I was having problems with making aliases for exits using the browser, at least on my cell phone and also my tablet. I do not have home internet, so not sure if my PC would also have a similar issue.

But the home version allows me to make aliases. It's just pressing on a screen with my finger, even using a long press, that will not bring up the virtual keyboard nor allow for copying and pasting, effectively not allowing me to make an alias on an exit.

[KVonGit]

Sorry, I didn't know about this difference.

Even on a PC browser, the alias for exits is just a dropdown.

In the desktop editor, it's a dropdown, but we can also type in whatever we please (as you know).

I don't know how that works, unfortunately. I can give you a workaround, but it's two extra steps for each exit you want to give an alias.

• Give the exit a name (this is to refer to the exit in a different script)
• Add this to the game object's start script: myexitname.alias = "myexitalias"

Add that line for each exit you want to assign an alias, substituting myexitname for the name you give the exit, and "myexitalias" for its alias.

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[David-Jareth-Bowie]

I will look into this work around, thank you. Although hopefully this can be addressed in a future update by a dev perhaps. I only took notice, because I was trying to follow the tutorial and then thought I might as well try to make an exit alias now. 😅

[KVonGit]

I have found a bug or two while following the tutorial before, myself, haha.

Now I'm thinking it's a good idea to create a new game by following the tutorial each time Quest gets updated, just for beta-testing purposes. Especially when there are changes to the UI. (I think the tutorial is from like ten versions ago, too. I don't believe there was an online version of the editor when that tutorial was created, but I'm not sure about that.)

Anyway, I'm glad you got it working (although the "fix" is sort of tedious), and I'm glad to hear other people are keeping Bob alive!

[David-Jareth-Bowie]

That would be nice. And either have the browser version it's own tutorial or explained better in the main one. Like the exit alias just said it could be done, but did not go into detail or step by step instructions.

It's been a while since I have went all the way through the tutorial, but there were a few, maybe several parts I did not get, because it felt like it did not explain things fully and I'd end up skipping those portions and then losing interest all together, because things were not working as I would have liked.