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@aPaperWeight I haven't worked on that yet, but the idea is you can use Receive Message Behaviors to trigger behaviors when a key is pressed. For example, onKeyPress a will trigger when a is pressed. You could also do onKeyPress where it will handle every keyboard input instead of one single key.

@TutorialDoctor said in Using Hyperpad as in interactive educational tool:

I've been toying with the idea of using Hyperpad as an interactive educational tool to teach algorithms and data structures.

This is a great idea! We actually have some teachers doing this already for other classes.

For me, the most unfortunate thing about Hyperpad is how few and far between the updates are, and there are a lot of features that could be added to make the app a lot more useable for larger projects.

We're working on improving update times. We're shifting some things around, and grew our team a bit so we can put some more time into hyperPad updates.
That being said, we also need to find a balance with updates. In the past we did weekly and monthly updates, but we found that people would not update the app at all. This caused a lot of headache with support, as some questions or issues were already fixed but they were on an older version.

I think Hyperpad is a wonderful application that is probably not as popular as it should be. I almost wish an app like this was built using Apple's SDK so that new features could be easier to add (high hopes).

Other than the hub, hyperPad is a native application. New features wouldn't be added quicker any ways. For the most part, the underlying code in hyperPad is pretty good! The issue is some features rely on other things ti be put in place first. You can't start a building from the top level down.
A lot of momentum was taken out by the whole covid pandemic. We had to change a lot of how we do things. We're working on restructuring now, and hopefully will be bale to dedicate more hands on hyperPad to progress quicker.

@TutorialDoctor Yeah, if a behavior fails to execute, then it doesn't execute the behaviors below. This isn't a bug.

So if modify array doesn't find a behavior to modify, then it encounters an error and doesn't execute behaviors below

I remember trying to make a neural network but failed. 😂

I'm still unsure how it all works though...

With this list, I’ll also add some solutions:

Animation

With the latest update, you can use the Load Image behavior with the dynamic setting to load images from a folder in you assets. It works well, and I’m not sure how it affects performance.

I can assure you this is possible!

I made a replay system where the game can record your movements; it definitely works. 👍

@TutorialDoctor I am in the TestFlight version. And yes I discovered the exact same thing you are now, it doesn’t work on empty objects.

@TutorialDoctor this is intentional. This is because hyperPad doesn't have a soft body physics engine i.e malleable shapes.

What is actually happening when you scale an object is that it will destroy the body and re-creates it when its done scaling.

When you destroy a body, the joints go with it :(

I totally agree!

Glad to see you back!
Definitely a lot has changed and been added. hyperPad is more powerful than ever.

@TutorialDoctor Glad I could help :smile:

Apps could support Siri in iOS 10 too. I just tested with my old iPad. But they might have added more supported things in 11?
Also, I have apps that use TTS.