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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 1 Apr, 2022
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  This question has come up a couple of times so I've added a new DOM Messaging plugin sample to the plugin SDK download here: https://www.construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/addon-sdk

  It uses DOM messaging to set and get the document title, since that is a simple DOM API that can't be used in a worker.

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  • 1 Apr, 2022
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  The section on using third-party scripts in the Construct for JavaScript developers quick start guide may be helpful. However it's difficult to provide any more specific help unless you share the specific project/code you're using.

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  • 1 Apr, 2022
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  In general, you shouldn't keep it running in the background, because it will waste system resources.

  You can identify how long the app was in the background by comparing the time between it suspending and resuming. So if you want to do something like increase the score depending on time passed, you can do it that way without the app always running in the background.

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  • 31 Mar, 2022
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  This has been discussed at great length already and I don't really want to re-run the whole discussion, but I do want to just point out:

  1) The suggestions platform is a good source of ideas and we do implement some of them - in the ~9 months the current platform has been up we've shipped 12 suggestions, which is in fact more than one a month on average.

  2) We have to work within the restrictions of the suggestions platform, so we can't always make customisations that we want. If you're thinking "why doesn't Scirra make their own suggestions platform?", then that just adds to the problem - add that to the several years worth of work already proposed.

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  • 31 Mar, 2022
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  We get so many ideas, and many of them are complex enough to require a lengthy review to determine feasibility, that merely providing any kind of response would itself be an enormous amount of work. Besides, even minor features can unexpectedly become very complicated. As a small company with limited resources we need to find ways to cut the amount of work we have to do, not increase it with lots of admin work.

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  • 31 Mar, 2022
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  It's probably because you need to replace 'global' with 'globalThis'. I'm only guessing though as I can't see the script you're talking about.

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  • 31 Mar, 2022
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  The main problem is we get far, far more suggestions than we can possibly implement. I don't see any way around the problem other than for people to post fewer suggestions...

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  • 31 Mar, 2022
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  It depends on the specific library. Until fairly recently there wasn't a language-standard way to access the global object or use modules in JavaScript. Construct is based on the modern approach of using JS Modules and globalThis for global access. Modern scripts that are based on modules should work fine. But older scripts may need tweaking to work.

  For example if an old script tries to declare a global variable with var myGlobal = ..., that will need changing to globalThis.myGlobal = .... Also if the script doesn't actually export anything, you won't be able to use it with an imported name - you'll have to rely on global variables.

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  • 31 Mar, 2022
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  Using timeline names is limiting, as if you want to play the same timeline in two different places, you have no way of identifying when each case finishes separately. Tags solve that.

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  • 31 Mar, 2022
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  The offline cache will save copies of the files. To update your game you must re-export and re-upload the project, as described in Offline games in Construct.

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  • 30 Mar, 2022
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  • 30 Mar, 2022

  Please only post in English on this forum as per the Forum & Community guidelines.

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  • 30 Mar, 2022
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  Make sure the sprite's origin and collision polygon are set correctly.

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  • 30 Mar, 2022
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  It sounds like a bug. Please report it here following all the guidelines, as we need all that information to be able to help.

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  • 30 Mar, 2022
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  Moved to Plugin SDK forum.

  See the section on DOM calls in the Addon SDK documentation.