New parallax - what to do?

Hello everyone,

I opened C2 to the new update (r91) and was a little confused to see that my HUD layer has been shifted when my window size changes. I know this is in the changelog, but it seems a bit counter-intuitive to me, and I have no idea on how to compensate for this.

Any pointers?

Doesn't your HUD layer have a parallax of 0, 0? Can you make a .capx demo?

dl.dropbox.com/u/41931267/Layer_problem.capx

Use the Anchor behavior. Anchor it to window left, window top, window right, window bottom and it works.

Hmm. I liked it much better being able to set a position on the HUD layer. Ah well, if that's just me, feel free to ignore ;)

Well, the parallax thing is one of those things we can't win: either this doesn't work or other games don't work. TBH the Anchor behavior is designed for doing that positioning for you, so I think it's OK to use that if the events don't work...

Fair enough - I'm not sure what to do, however, If I want a button on a specific position on the screen...

A trick I used was to actually use a sprite the shape of the screen (which I was also using for a custome fade out of levels)which I'd placed many image points in, each image point was the place to put a part of the hud or UI. And sense this fade sprite always automatically scales to match the new screen size, my stuff always stayed i nthe same position. (I had an action..Every tick- place object A at iumage point A etc.)

— That is very clever! I use a similar technique for my menus, but never thought of using it for the HUD.

Cheers, mate ;)

Thanks, Glad to help. It's strange though, I installed this new build and cant find the letterbox settings! What am I missing? I though it would be in the "Fullscreen in Browser" drop down list, but its not. :(

I saw the settings... it was in that drop down box for me... Are you sure you installed the new version?

Yeah, the freaky thin is its in the browser object under events, when requesting full screen mode, but NOT in the drop down list under project porperties> full screen mode. i'm confused!

<img src="http://i.imgur.com/LpKpc.png" border="0" />

It works for me... are you missing these options? Do you need to reinstall r91?

yup, they're not there..I'll reinstall again and reboot.

WOW. I've installed three times, it never shows up., I even completely uninstalled Construct 2 first,. then installed this new build, the option exists ONLY in the events for the browser object and not in the drop down as in your screen shot!

Anyone else have the same issue? I'm running on windows vista.