Ategon

what frontend are you using, default lemmy one or one of the alt frontends .world has? Default frontend should handle it fine but havent checked the alts

Daily Godot Tip #37: If you select text you can hit certain keys to wrap the text in that key (works for things like quotations, brackets) in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

versions that support (lower rectangle / higher number is more recent):

usage per version:

last major browser that didnt support which was safari updated to support it 4 years ago. update your browser

The site may go down within the window of 1-3am ET (4 hours from when this was posted) for maintenance in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Sites back up

Got a lot of information about what it actually causing the issues which should help me automate some fixes for tomorrow + the weekend

There likely will be some more downtime tomorrow if I have time (if not itll be on saturday)

The issue is essentially a chain of issues with one needing to be fixed before I can fix the others. Some tables have duplicates entries which is preventing reindexing (since the indexes are broken). First one im going to try to fix is the post table.

I did some changes to remove a duplicate community to test which is https://programming.dev/c/[email protected] and ive managed to make it merged and now comments will show if you sort by comments in the community. Posts however still aren't showing up due to the posts table having the issue with duplicates as well. (fixing posts first so I can set all of the posts to the correct community in an automated way later for the communities)

Daily Godot Tip #31: You can use @ export_placeholder to give placeholder text to the input box in the inspector in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

around half the instances I checked were affected, no idea why only them were affected. world is also currently behind in inbound federation due to the pure amount of activities its generating atm (only instance that is atm). We fixed the issues so it shouldnt be happening anymore (and I can see this post on world)

world, lemm.ee dont have them, beehaw does for example

no problem, been using it as an excuse to learn about godot as well

Daily Godot Tip #31: You can use @ export_placeholder to give placeholder text to the input box in the inspector in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

For people on other instances, you might not see posts 29 and 30 due to some issues (e.g. people on .world) but you can see them by going to https://programming.dev/c/godot

Daily Godot Tip #31: You can use @ export_placeholder to give placeholder text to the input box in the inspector (programming.dev)

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This shows up when there’s no value and disappears when you start to type

Works for Strings, Arrays of Strings and PackedStringArrays

Daily Godot Tip #30: You can give a second argument of a prefix to export groups. This matches any variables afterwards with that prefix (until there's one that does not) (programming.dev)

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It removes what you set as the prefix from the name for the variable in the inspector

Daily Godot Tip #29: When using export groups you can put a slash and then another word to make the second word a subfolder (and variables afterwards in that subfolder) (programming.dev)

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You can nest as many subfolders as you want using this

Daily Godot Tip #28: You can group your exported variables into toggleable sections to make them a bit cleaner (and a similar structure to the built in variables) (programming.dev)

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@export_group("Text") is used to make a group and you can break out of the group using @export_group("")

Daily Godot Tip #27: You can make any of the side docks floating by hitting the three dots in the top right and then hit "Make Floating" (programming.dev)

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This pops it out into a new window that you can move around separate from the main window (e.g. onto other monitors)

Daily Godot Tip #26: You can create another filesystem section by hitting change split mode. One of them will show folders and the other will show what is inside what is selected in the other one. (programming.dev)

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in this case I selected res so its showing everything in res on the right

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Daily Godot Tip #25: You can color folders by right clicking them and then clicking set folder color. Any files/folders in the folder will be colored the same color (programming.dev)

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*(unless the subfolder explicitly has another color set)

Useful for finding certain folders quicker

Daily Godot Tip #24: Statements can be put across multiple lines using backslashes or parentheses in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I dont

⠀⠀⠀⠀know what you're

talking

⠀⠀ab out

Daily Godot Tip #24: Statements can be put across multiple lines using backslashes or parentheses (programming.dev)

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Putting a backslash after a part of the statement basically means ignore any newlines between this and the next characters so you can indent it however you want

Daily Godot Tip #23: If you have a large variable name that is similar to other variable names, to make smart typing choose it first you can type some characters from many of the words in L to R order (programming.dev)

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This lets you type parts that are differentiated from the other variables quicker while still having enough to smart pick it

Daily Godot Tip #22: The replace_by function can be used if you need to replace a certain node with another while keeping all children within the scene in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It definitely has more niche use due to the children interactions. Its pretty much just a shorthand for one specific case of function calls you would do so that you dont have to mess with all of reparenting, position, etc. for that case

Its more useful for engine and tool development (and is used in the engine for the change type button when you right click)

Off the top of my head a use case in a game would if for some reason you have placeholders, replacing the placeholder with the actual node. Another one is if your enemies change based on a specific metric in the game (e.g. once a run hits 1 minute all enemies change to be a harder enemy), you can just replace the old enemy node/script with the new one so that you get the updated script (would have to also manage the sprite in that case though)