Hi Score Object In Android

[Megabeard]

Hey everyone,

In my game, players accumulate a score in a level. At the end of a level, they're taken to a new frame where they can enter their high score. While testing on the computer, an input would come up asking me for my name if my score was high enough. But for some reason on Android this doesn't come up even when all the scores are empty. Is this normal? Or am I experiencing a glitch? If it's supposed to be like that, how would I go about allowing for players to submit their high score on Android? I couldn't quite find anything on this particular topic in the forums (Most were about online score tables), so my apologies if this has already been brought up or is obvious!

[Fernando]

What version you are using and can you post a small mfa with the action event to test here?

[Megabeard]

I am currently using the Developer version, Build R284.10. I also threw together an example file only to find that it works when in a simplified state. The frame from the example file displaying the high scores works on android. It's also exactly the same as the file I'm having issues with. This tells me there must be something up with the frame where my score is determined.

My game is getting into the prototyping phases and I'd rather not post it on the forums. Would you mind if I sent it directly to you? I also attached the example file to give you an idea of how I did high scores.

Thank you!

[amiman99]

Hi, I'm using "Player 1 - Has a High Score" option and it works fine.
hi-score-new.jpg

[Megabeard]

Hey animan99, unfortunately I'm still getting the same results on android when I try that. Works on my PC though. I'm almost certain there's something in the coding of my level causing this, I just can't figure out what would change when converting to android.

[amiman99]

Works fine on my android devices. Android version 4.1 and 4.4.
Maybe your device does not let you write to file?

I compiled your example BUT I changed the API from 20 to 19 and Hi Score works on Android v4.4

[Megabeard]

Tried API 19 instead, but unfortunately the same results.

EDIT: I figured out what the issue was! I was storing the score of the level in a global value, so at the end of the frame I set the score to 0, then using the global value, set the score in the "Hi score" frame. For some reason this seemed to confuse the Android version of the game, but worked fine on the PC version. It's a fairly easy workaround for me though.

Thank you both for looking into this for me!

[Fernando]

the problem in your second frame is that you use always to set hi-score


you can not keep asking for update hi-score I think more appropriate here is start of frame or run this event once as condition to trigger this action.