I am building an app which includes an ‘if do, if else do’ block. But there are so far 32 ‘if else do’ conditions in it and there will be a lot more. So far I have found thunkable running slow and I think it’s as a result of the amount of conditions. Is this likely the case? Am I better off splitti…

Yes, it’s likely that all of your conditional (if/else) statements are slowing things down. Honestly, if I you add more than about 5 if/else blocks to a particular section of code, I’d stop and think about how you can code that more efficiently. Why do you need so many conditionals? What are you tr…

Hmm. Well I wanted to create a chess game from scratch. As much to teach myself a new skill as anything else. I am doing this by defining the individual pieces as buttons. When the user clicks the piece it reveals another button that user can click to move to that square or attack an enemy piece. B…

Yeah, so you’re taking a very complex project (making a chess game) and trying to adopt a very complex method (cloning and any component blocks). It’s not something I can describe in a few sentences or necessarily point you to a specific tutorial although there are certainly topics here about clonin…

Yeah I understand it probably isn’t something easy. The main reason I wanted to create from scratch was a) to learn something new which I hope to be able to take to other apps, and b) I want control over each stage of the game for plans I may have down the line. This might be possible by using ot…

Would you say using a canvas would be a good idea? To detect collisions between black and white pieces?

NO. The canvas is really not production-ready. I avoid it. Plus, you don’t need to detect any collisions at all. You just wait until each piece is in its new location and then update your data source and check for any interactions between pieces. Ideally, nothing is actually moving at all in your pr…

Ok no problem. I won’t try the canvas. So I’ve been trying with any component blocks as you suggested all day and I can sort of see a murky path through but it isn’t becoming clear just yet. I might have to put up with the slow thunkable for now because I can’t get my head round it. I have included…

The screenshots are so tiny and they are low resolution so the forums can’t display a larger version of them like it does for many screenshots. What I recommend is this: Take a screenshot of one section of re-used blocks. What I mean by that is if you have three or four if/else blocks stacked on…

I’d also need this: [image] tatiang: Tell us what you expect those blocks to do. It’s also helpful to know what algorithm you’re following because then I can read that step in the algorithm and see if your blocks will actually achieve that. It looks like you’re going the Canvas route… more…

Um I may misunderstand but I don’t think it’s a canvas. I’ve cloned a button called black pawn and one called white pawn. I’ve put an ‘any button’ component in. When user clicks any button it gets the component ID (is how i understand it), it compares this components text with “BPawn” or “WPawn”. I…

Slow running thunkable when creating long if do chains

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sammy-wrightcuhb March 25, 2023, 11:37am 10

Ok. I think I may have figured out how to do what you were suggesting. What do you think of these blocks?

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