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Construct Animate r428

New code editor; bug fixes

25 February, 2025 ()

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Over the past few weeks we've been working on a major update to Construct's text and code editor, and in this week's beta release we're ready to share our work with you! Previously Construct's code editor was based on the decent but ageing CodeMirror 5, and we've now updated it to use Monaco, the same code editor as used by VS Code. This provides lots of new code editing features, including a code minimap, scrollbar annotations, sticky scroll headers, 'Go to definition', find references, renaming symbols, and more. While a great update in its own right, using Monaco in Construct should also makesit possible to support TypeScript coding within Construct itself - we'll be exploring that in future, but for now we're focusing on support for the existing JavaScript coding features.

While we didn't have to develop Monaco itself, intergating it with Construct is still a complex job, so please be on the lookout for any issues with it and as ever report them to us following all the guidelines so we can investigate. For now you can also revert back to the legacy CodeMirror editor in Settings. This is mainly intended as a backup in case a serious problem with Monaco prevents you being able to work on your project, but as maintaining two code editors is much more complicated than just having one, we plan on removing the legacy CodeMirror editor soon.

As ever this release has some bug fixes and some further changes detailed in the changelog below. Happy testing!

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Changelog iconNew Features

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New Monaco code editor

Changelog iconNew Additions

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Settings: new section for Text / Code editor settings

Changelog iconChanges

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Scripts in event sheets now saved by line for better diffs with source control
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Allow project to handle mouse/touch move input over HTML elements
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Example Browser: rename 'Scene graph' tag to 'Hierarchy'

Changelog iconBug Fixes

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Possible crash updating scripts from external source (regression r427)
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Recent projects not updating (regression r426)
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Hierarchies: fix unexpected results when loading complex hierarchies from JSON
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Adjust HSL effect hue description referred to incorrect range

Changelog iconPerformance Improvements

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Use low priority for editor offline caching requests to try to avoid it delaying editor responsiveness

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