Welcome to the Construct 2 public preview

Thx toralord to explain to me the"i'm affraid". Like you see my english is very poor! sorry for that.

Construct2( I like this better=P) appears it will be better than Construct1. However, I'll wait till it catches up with Construct1's current level.

Construct2( I like this better=P) appears it will be better than Construct1. However, I'll wait till it catches up with Construct1's current level.

x2, i am exciting about the potential of C2, but i won start any serious project until reach C1 level

Not that I don't support it, but this "Pay-what-you-want" thing, with no limits and an option to use the software free, seems a whole lot like donations with more initiative.

-David

Couple of my observations. I've got latest FF but both games ( especialy shooter) ware lagging as hell, though i know my specs are quite dated ( centrino duo core 1.66, 2gb, gforce 7300 256mb) . plus the game window was slightly bigger than my FF display window, so when i was pressing arrow keys i was activating scroll bar.

Latest FF, as in 3.6.13, or the FF 4 beta?

Latest FF, as in 3.6.13, or the FF 4 beta?

3.6.13

Firefox 4 has hardware acceleration to IE9's level, so it should run smoothly in that. Firefox 3.x seems to use a software renderer which isn't very optimised.

Firefox 4 has hardware acceleration to IE9's level, so it should run smoothly in that. Firefox 3.x seems to use a software renderer which isn't very optimised.

Ok, cool.

I've read good things about FF4

Hi, great release, i really like what i'm seeing with construct 2!

i have one issue however. For adding private variables, you disallow several characters, including '+'. This is really annoying for me because i use symbols on each variable to symbolise purposes and uses of that variable, one of those being +. This must be fairly simple to change, and i know it's nothing like your biggest concern right now, but if you could change it by the final release, i would be much obliged.

Until then, thanks for the new construct 0.99.97.

-Uzalu

Er... Those symbols are operators, which are used by the runtime. Variable names should never use symbols that already are used by the engine/language. They could break the flow, which is why they are disallowed.

Mipey's right, if you can name a private variable "my+variable", then the expression to access it is:

Sprite.my+variable

which the expression parser will read as "Sprite.my [add] variable" and throw an error either for 'variable' not being a system expression or 'my' not being a Sprite instance variable. I don't think it's a big deal - just use a letter or character instead, say.

What about things like text objects though? I noticed if i put things like / or \ as a string they did not show always, this could be due to it being used for comments in javascript so it might be a possible bug as they should display still.

Sometimes you need them in a text so there should be a way to display those if it's possible. If not though it would be good to have some info for which characters to avoid using in text.

Can you make a .capx with the exact cases that don't work and send it to me? Thanks.