Hello all,
I put together a small app with the most common problems encountered by our forum/Discord users and how to fix them.
Let me know if you spot a bug or if you feel like something is missing!
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I LOVE the idea, itās very cool !!
Can you make this troubleshooting guide a bit more web-ish ?
(Plus ressemblante Ć une interface web, plus rĆ©active, moins dāanimation)
Maybe user can refer to this app before asking why āuuh my game doesnāt workā
^^
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Less animation, like, increasing the scrolling speed? 
Yeah, it would be nice if users started by checking this, but Iām not sure where it should be added 
Pinned in the āHow do Iā section?
I did some changes, modified the scrolling and added a few screenshots.
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The app has been updated. 
Nicer screenshots, nicer scrolling, and some bugfixes.
Now that everything is smooth, the next thing should beā¦ finding a better tree which would use tags, sections or suchā¦ something easier to navigate.
Iām open to ideas!
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Planned to share the source ? 
Iām open to ideas!
For tabs or openable menu, i think if you put all objects of a tab on an layer you can toggle the layers.
I think I see what you mean, but could I keep using Yarn with such a tab/menu system?
Everythingās based on Yarn, I donāt feel like refactoring all of it (my first time using the word refactoring, I hope itās okay 
) .
Iām not going to share the source with you, youāll waste time on it instead of working on your extensions that weāre all waiting for 
nudge nudge
Iāll experiment with other tree structures and see what I can come up with.
You use one BBtext in the whole app ?
Just move the position of BBtext when you change the tab. And go to the next node related to your tab clicked with yarn action.
For a list like a menu you can use bbtext too. When you have made your selection disable the inputs for change the selection, hide the menu with a big button Back. And for enable the selection you need click on back button and here we you you go back in the menu selection.
(Iāve never used yarn maybe you canāt do this)
Like we said itās for a friends 
Which one :')
Yeah i wll try to atleast release a build for Gamepad.
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Very nice start! It reminds me of the exclamation mark command mods can put for quickly summoning explanations, but that one still needs someone to trigger the relevant command.
Anyway, does this use TimeDelta() for the text? It doesnāt feel fast enough (or atleast, I end up frequently double tap).
For the content itself:
For āobject not showingā put āgo to the debugger tab, refresh, and scroll the list ā¦ā (user may not realize it doesnāt refresh itself),
you can mention the ctrl+shift+i inspector as well for the āgame doesnāt runā thread.
For feature, Iād like mouse advancing and choice selection, but choice selection might be difficult to implement in Yarn (maybe generate sprite hitbox with Repeat event?. There also should be a ābackā button" (saw āYou reached the end of this sectionā message too much). If not directly to the previous āpageā or topic, even to the home selection menu is good enough.
The T and G buttons felt strange rather than W and S, although I got used to it. Why those two buttons, keyboard layout?
The link icon maybe should stay half-opacity when no link (menu choice) and be more visible when it can be clicked? Maybe even a copiable text field of the URL when mouse over at bottom? (Both as alternative to pop up and for user trust. Didnāt check all the links btw)
On another note, Firefox blocked the link pop ups by default (ironic because it never blocks them on shady sites) - just something I felt to note.
The equation or sigma button is a nice mention, itās undiscovered but super useful. Canāt wait for next update with autocomplete!
Anyway, hope this feedback helps, this really is promising, and if expanded enough maybe can even be intergrated in GDevelop like a āHelp > Common Problemsā option in the menu!
Thanks for making (and hopefully continuing to make) this awesome tool.
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Thanks for the ideas guys, a million images are flowing into my mind 
@Bouh 
Iāve got one object for the text, and one for the choices.
Extensions? I also remember an efficient hitbox checker and some console logging wizardry. A debugging pack would sure come in handy.
@reina
I guess itās limited by the framerate, so I would have to write two characters per frame, perhaps?
Also, formatting tags count as characters, so each styling slows the scrolling down.
I wondered about ctrl+shift+i. There are many settings and tabs and the errors are often obscureā¦ and I donāt master it myself yet. If you manage to write something clear and relatively simple about it, Iāll be happy to include it.
Yes, a Back button will come at some point. But somehow, I expect most users to open it, pick a section, read it, try the fixes and ragequit because it didnāt work.
I chose G/T because Up/Down mess with the browser, and W would be Down on my keyboard while it would be Up on yours. 
I donāt think I can do anything about the Firefox warning. 
Donāt know if you noticed, but you canāt highlight text in the app. And I wonāt have access to the system clipboard unless I use some Javascript.
Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated!
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Often, when itās a black screen or the game crashing or whatever due to a bad event, on Ctrl shift I console you can see the error, and the error message is often something with gdjs.evtTools.<extension>tools Wich letās you know what extension has the problem and limits the potential bad instructions (instruction = condition or action) and helps you spot the one causing the problems.
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āExtensionā would be misleading for noobs, because they donāt mean the same in the source and inside GDevelop.
I tried crashing my game with a while loop, I couldnāt even load the inspector
In my opinion, you canāt expect a user whose native language is not English and who doesnāt know html/js to understand any of this:
Heāll think okay, I have three problems, the mousewheel action (none in the project I used), the text objects (no problem with those) and the debugger (wasnāt open). 
The app has been updated 
Not sure if I can do mouse navigation, will give it a try tomorrow.
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Thanks for taking this step it will help lot of peopleā¦
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Fantastic! Nice idea Gruk!
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Thanks @gnacca!
The app has been updated. Keyboard time is over, all hail the mouse/touch, thanks to the recent bugfixes.
Enjoy!
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I managed to add a Previous button feature for easier navigation 