Sandbox Editor removal ?

[Mickeyblue-uk]

Hi, does anyone know where the Sandbox editor has gone. I cannot find it from the main menu and control panel just hangs and asks "are you connected to the internet" . After a while we get a 504.

Not an urgent request im struggling to get to grips with it TBH and im a fairly reasonable dev.

Globals not being globals
Image gallery for elements is flaky

If anyone has had any luck with it and wouldnt mind giving some pointers that would be cool (when its back up and running).

Regards,

Michael

[Een]

This should answer your question:
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=15254&start=10#p57356

But you can still launch sandbox from "play now" (it should be in your favourites) or from https://studio.boardgamearena.com/sandbox if you want to continue dabbling with it a little.

[Mickeyblue-uk]

Thanks,

I'll continue to Dabble !

Thanks for the speedy reply.

[laedit]

Regarding the globals, if I am not mistaken it is because the script part is executing on the server, thus it is stateless and globals aren't modified.

[Mickeyblue-uk]

Thanks Laedit.

Seems a bit crazy to have to use labels etc to "save" or store values between turns and clicks in some cases.. but maybe it's just me.

For example if you declare a var outside a function as you would set a global and then assign it a value for example 0.

Then call that var from within a function like onClick it will read it as 0, great! IF you update that var to say 1 then wait another onClick - the var has now been reset back to its original value.

I find that almost every step im having to store the value somewhere in a label in order to retrieve it in another function later...

Not quite what im used to.

[laedit]

It is quite unusual, but I think that is because of the multiplayer part, to ensure that all players are on the same page on the current game.

That said, I think that the original idea was to use counter from the graphic elements for such cases.
And the sandbox only target basic and/or abstract games, not complex ones.

[laedit]

Image gallery for elements is flaky

If this is about the selection of an image in a selection, it is fixed.

If not, can you elaborate please?