bitsy nuisances? + module/extension system notes

Most of my irritations are around the text/dialog features, and most of them (buttons/editing in play,etc) have already been mentioned.

One additional one though, is that swapping between the plain text and gui views of dialog seems to throw away anything it can't fit into the gui view, which is a good way to lose a lot of work because you made a typo somewhere near the top (while working in text view). Some sort of error message giving you a chance to fix would be a lot better (or 'commenting out' but retaining the bad bits).

Oh, and while the Preview dialog function is great for simple dialog, for complex, nested or dynamic dialog it doesn't seem to behave right? Or I can't work out how it's supposed to behave!

(Honestly - and I know this is new feature territory - but I'd love it if bitsy supported live editing, so you could change text or sprites on the fly)

n°1 usability issue for me (hope it wasn't mentioned earlier) is the similarity between room logos and exits logos (add, duplicate, delete). i always add exits after rooms (especially when there are a lot) and sometimes accidentally erase or duplicate a room instead of an exit because of this... maybe a different window color could help?

As I've noticed working on bigger projects that require 100+ rooms/palettes/dialogs, navigation really becomes an issue. Some system for these objects akin to what we have now for images would be super helpful. Also, it would be nice to overall improve image navigation: add an option to create folders and subfolders, sort things alphabetically and by creation date, select multiple items at once, change the size of the miniatures in the explorer, etc.

As of recently, I've also noticed several annoying bugs:

1. can't duplicate dialogue with multiple nested conditions

2. when multiple exits with conditions are placed above each other, only one of them works

3. when adding a lock or a dialog for an exit for the first time, can't select an already existing one and have to create a new one (this one more of a usability issue)

I have a very minor bug where I have sometimes needed to refresh my browser before loading a game for edit. Bitsy ignores the game load otherwise. This has only happened a very few times. To comment on others, I agree that there might be a better indication of when in play versus edit. I remind my students that when the grid is off, they are in play mode. One thing that occurred to me when I taught Bitsy online last week was that there could be a way to minimize Bitsy tool panels, as opposed to closing them altogether, to temporarily save room when working on a game. 

For me, having some clear indication of whether you're in play or edit mode would be super helpful, like the play mode tint in Unity. The other thing that comes to mind is I find it a little unclear how to add new options to lists in the dialogue window - could the 'add option' button always be visible under the list?

Phew... Answering for my students, that's a close race between:

• Accidentally editing while the game is running. (greying out boxes?)
• Tooltips not being translated :P
• A missing overview for rooms (like there is for drawings)
• (Small issue:) the "move" button at two exits is not the same (one is translated, the other not - one has a different tool tip, but they do the same) --> my students get confused on how to place an exit in a room not currently shown in the room-window.
• (Also small issue:) For nearly every screen I have to tell them to use their browsers to zoom out to 80 or 90% to fit one complete box and to press F11 for fullscreen. Maybe a +/- and fullscreen-button would be helpful?

The Avatar and Sprites sharing the same color... I know this is not a bug but I think it's a small change (different colors between them) that could open many design possibilities.

I'd love to see expanded editor support for tablets. My personal setup involves a desktop computer and iPad for couch/bed, but at the moment the editor is broken and unusable on an iPad. Would be awesome to see that fixed so I can make games on the couch/bed/lawn/etc!

(And as a matter of fact, I have a PR on Github that should do just that, cough cough 😎 https://github.com/le-doux/bitsy/pull/118)

Sometimes I can't edit text, if I want to edit it I can highlight and delete/copy and paste; after a while it works but I don't know why/how. (this problem happens for all of the text editing, where I can't edit the code in the code module or the dialog in the dialog module); it may happen due to me liking to put the application in fullscreen? Otherwise I don't know why it happens.

Also you may want to look at how Sand: A Superfluous Game works with prefabs! I think it is made in Game Maker so it may not translate 1:1, but it does have a discord server that you may want to join to talk to the coder (if he also has the time of course) about having stuff translate between updates

the record gif thingy, i don't understand it... i would like it to be simple

also, sometimes i by mistake, while playtesting my game, i edit text, and it does not show up in my game, so i would like it if nothing can be edited while in game...

also i think the text thing is a bug

FYI; i have been wondering, it bitsy pure javascript or was it made with a engine?

Occasionally I get an extra space or two in my dialogue scripts, which, if I'm using the page break function, gets turned into an empty dialogue box that can be pretty annoying.

#1 annoyance for me is that the grid view is on by default, and turning it off is not persistent. I basically never use it, so I have to turn it off every time!