Suggested "Recent" values for string instance variables and text are not relevant

[dop2000]

Problem description

Sorry for the confusing title, I'm talking about this list which drops down when you click string instance variables or Text property of Text object:

Observed result

99.9% of the time these values are not relevant not only to this instance variable or object, but even to this project. I don't have any idea why it's suggesting me "Verdana" or "9patch 9patch", I don't remember ever typing these.

For every field this list of suggestions is different, but it's always some random garbage which obstructs the view and makes editing more difficult.

This "island_5_5" value is from another project, I should not see it here.

Expected result

The list of suggested values should only contain previously typed values from this particular variable in the current project. If this not possible, then this feature should be disabled.

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Platform information Browser: Chrome Browser version: 91.0.4472.101 Browser engine: Chromium Context: browser Operating system: Windows Operating system version: 10 Device type: desktop Device pixel ratio: 1.25 Logical CPU cores: 4 Approx. device memory: 8 GB User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.101 Safari/537.36 C3 release: r251 (stable) Language setting: en-US Local storage Storage quota (approx): 127 gb Storage usage (approx): 293 mb (0.2%) Persistant storage: Yes Browser support notes This list contains missing features that are not required, but could improve performance or user experience if supported. Nothing is missing. Everything is OK! WebGL information Version string: WebGL 2.0 (OpenGL ES 3.0 Chromium) Numeric version: 2 Supports NPOT textures: yes Supports GPU profiling: yes Supports highp precision: yes Vendor: Google Inc. (Intel) Renderer: ANGLE (Intel, Intel(R) HD Graphics 620 Direct3D11 vs_5_0 ps_5_0, D3D11-27.20.100.8681) Major performance caveat: no Maximum texture size: 16384 Point size range: 1 to 1024 Extensions: EXT_color_buffer_float EXT_color_buffer_half_float EXT_disjoint_timer_query_webgl2 EXT_float_blend EXT_texture_compression_bptc EXT_texture_compression_rgtc EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic EXT_texture_norm16 KHR_parallel_shader_compile OES_draw_buffers_indexed OES_texture_float_linear WEBGL_compressed_texture_s3tc WEBGL_compressed_texture_s3tc_srgb WEBGL_debug_renderer_info WEBGL_debug_shaders WEBGL_draw_instanced_base_vertex_base_instance WEBGL_lose_context WEBGL_multi_draw WEBGL_multi_draw_instanced_base_vertex_base_instance WEBGL_video_texture WEBGL_webcodecs_video_frame OVR_multiview2 Audio information System sample rate: 48000 Hz Output channels: 2 Output interpretation: speakers Supported decode formats: WebM Opus (audio/webm; codecs=opus) Ogg Opus (audio/ogg; codecs=opus) WebM Vorbis (audio/webm; codecs=vorbis) Ogg Vorbis (audio/ogg; codecs=vorbis) MPEG-4 AAC (audio/mp4; codecs=mp4a.40.5) MP3 (audio/mpeg) FLAC (audio/flac) PCM WAV (audio/wav; codecs=1) Supported encode formats: WebM Opus (audio/webm; codecs=opus) Video information Supported decode formats: WebM AV1 (video/webm; codecs=av01.0.00M.08) MP4 AV1 (video/mp4; codecs=av01.0.00M.08) WebM VP9 (video/webm; codecs=vp9) WebM VP8 (video/webm; codecs=vp8) Ogg Theora (video/ogg; codecs=theora) H.264 (video/mp4; codecs=avc1.42E01E) Supported encode formats: WebM VP9 (video/webm; codecs=vp9) WebM VP8 (video/webm; codecs=vp8)

[AshleyScirra]

No project was provided. I can't reproduce this in Ghost Shooter, so closing.

Besides, those look like autocomplete prompts created by the browser, not Construct, so it's probably beyond our control anyway. Maybe browser settings or browser extensions have something to do with it.

[dop2000]

@AshleyScirra There is no point in providing the project, because these suggestions are not saved in the project. If they are created by the browser, can you disable autofill/autocomplete for these fields in the editor? Something like <input type="text" id="cc" name="cc" autocomplete="off">

[AshleyScirra]

I can't reproduce any such autocomplete prompts, so I can't test if that works or not. Browsers are also notorious for ignoring autocomplete="off" anyway.

[dop2000]

I tested it just now and autocomplete="off" works in Chrome. It removes the dropdown list with suggestions.

[AshleyScirra]

I won't make code changes if I can't test the result. I don't see any autocomplete suggestions, and it's not clear why you do. This is what needs to be established first, which is why I first mentioned browser settings or extensions.

[dop2000]

Could you check on other PCs, or browsers? The fact that you can't reproduce this doesn't mean that there is no problem.. Obviously, not everything I type into these fields is saved for autocompletion, otherwise the list will be thousands of items long. I don't understand how the browser picks what to show me in this suggestion list, but it's definitely not useful.

Regarding the browser extensions - I don't have any installed in Chrome. Also, I first noticed this problem more than a year ago when I was using the Desktop App.

[dop2000]

I think I found the browser setting which is causing it:

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Still it would probably be best to disable autocomplete by default for all such fields.

[AshleyScirra]

I have the same setting enabled, so it doesn't seem to be solely down to that.

[dop2000]

Maybe try entering some texts formatted as addresses - with leading numbers, commas etc. Like I said, I don't know how Chrome decides when and what to show me in this list. But disabling "Addresses and more" seems to fix it.

[AshleyScirra]

For some reason this just started reproducing for me today. autocomplete="off" was missing only from certain property types - others did have it already. I added the missing attribute and so it should be fixed in the next beta.

[dop2000]

Awesome, thank you!