Converting a File from v3.72 to v4 beta 3

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All,

I thought it would be useful to have a thread with 'not-too-techy' points about how to convert files from version 3.72 to version 4, since it's taken me a while to complete my first conversion. Here are the points I have seen so far:

Use of 'Playsound' action needs to be converted to nameofsound.start()

Use of timer() funtion needs to changed to use getTimer()

Use of mouse.show() and mouse.hide() needs to changed to use mouseShow() and mouseHide()

Scripts which are within layers/buttons don't seem to import well. Copy and paste these instead.

Colours of text, etc, seem to be lost after import. Change these manually straight after importing them.

Substring(a,b,c) has changed to a.substr(b,c)

Use of commands that aren't in scripts were allowed in the graphical interface in 3.72 eg. Let, If, Loadvariables, didn't have to be in scripts in v3.72. These need to be put into scripts in v4.



Having got to grips with it now, version 4 is great. I'm really looking forward to working out some of the new stuff like XML, but that's a way off yet. If anyone else has any other observations of converting from 3.72 to 4, please add them to this post !

Morgan.