zorket wrote:

Firedrake969 wrote:

Good idea, but could be “hacked” so one project could read another user's project cloud data.

I said that only one user can access their own open variables.

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zorket wrote:

mitchboy wrote:

Zparx wrote:

but I'm failing to see how this would be useful..

zorket wrote:

My zorkash system. Some projects could earn you more zorkash. Also, other scratchers could find other uses for this system.

But honestly, I can't see another use for this except a project that's essentially the same idea as this.

Another use is that you can make one project controlled by another, or make multiplayer games on two different projects.

zorket wrote:

One person suggested that open variables should be called bridge variables, because they're a bridge from one project to another.

Everyone loves the new feature, cloud variables, where you can make high score lists, surveys and all kinds of stuff! But what if you wanted to take information from one project and be able to use it in another project? For example, I'm working on a system called Zorkash, and I could make other projects earn you more Zorkash on that one project. So. Here's how it would work.

Everything I'm about to say will apply in the same way for lists. So if you see something for variables, it goes for lists.

Two new buttons would pop up in the data menu, they look like this:



These buttons allow you to “load” variables and lists. But first, modifications are made to the current buttons to create variables and lists. Here is the new menu:



As you can see, there is a new checkbox that allows it to be an “open” variable. This can only be checked when cloud variables are also checked. Let me explain how an open variable works.

Currently, every project is limited to it's own cloud variables. It's almost as if every project had it's own server.



Now, it would be changed that instead of every project being limited to itself, every project should only be limited to it's user. The reason they can't connect to other projects is so that other people can't tamper with their projects by connecting to them. So anyway, it would be similar to every user having their own server, although they are actually all using the same server.



Now you know how we create these open variables and how they should be able to connect to other projects, but how to you connect to these variables in other projects?

When you're in another project, you can press the load variable or load list button. A dialog will pop up.



All of your open variables will appear in a list. From here you can check the values of those open variables, or connect to them. You can select an open variable from this list. Once you press Ok, the variable will pop up in your list of variables. Instead of a cloud symbol popping up, there would be some other symbol to indicate that the variable is open. Speaking of the cloud symbol, all I get for it is a box, which is another glitch to be fixed.

Do you like this idea? Please post your opinions!

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-CloudGate- wrote:

support this would be amazing for the stuff I make

ShyGamer16-alt wrote:

-CloudGate- wrote:

support this would be amazing for the stuff I make

Please be constructive.

PTheGreat42 wrote:

support!