Help! Text box popping into existence every frame

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CamDamFlimFlam
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Help! Text box popping into existence every frame

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I am very new to this so oops if there's an obvious solution but - when I playtest my own cases, the text box keeps disappearing and coming back every new frame, but on published custom cases it stays on screen the whole time and I would like my text boxes to do that too. It's minor but it's really bothering me and feels kind of jarring.
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Re: Help! Text box popping into existence every frame

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Thanks for the report. If you look closely, this doesn't happen for all of your frames, but only the ones where you don't define a place. I suspect that this "flicker" effect happens only when you don't define a place, and the other trials you're seeing do define the place on every frame.

There's no reason why the text box flickering should depend on whether you explicitly set the place on this frame. I'll add it to my to-do list. This bug is going to annoy me, too.
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Re: Help! Text box popping into existence every frame

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And now that I've done some preliminary investigating, I take back what I said a few minutes ago. I can observe the flicker effect even when a place is defined.

In any event, there's some debugging to do...
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