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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 21 Jan, 2022
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  Don't use alert or anything else that waits when receiving network messages. It means that while it's waiting, other messages can arrive and overwrite the current message. It should always work fine if you avoid alerts/waits.

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 20 Jan, 2022
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  If the customers download a new webview package from my website, then that package will obviously not have any save data present. So they lose their previous save right?

  I don't think that's the case - I think the save data may be stored in the user data folder and so not affected by updates to your app. It should be straightforward to test this and verify it.

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  • 18 Jan, 2022
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  When an error occurs, press F12 and check the browser console for a more detailed error message. That may help identify what the problem is.

  It's possible you have a browser extension that is interfering with Construct and causing problems. Try removing them one by one until you have no browser extensions and see if it starts working after removing one.

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  • 15 Jan, 2022
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  I'm not aware that there was any outage and nobody else has mentioned it. Maybe it was just a problem with your Internet connection?

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  • 14 Jan, 2022
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  As noted in the memory usage manual guide, the initial objects placed on the layout are used to determine what to load when loading that layout, which helps optimise memory use for layout-by-layout loading.

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  • 14 Jan, 2022
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  The expression round(n / 10) * 10 will round n to the nearest 10.

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  • 13 Jan, 2022

  Please post in English as per the Forum & Community guidelines.

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  • 13 Jan, 2022
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  This won't work when daylight saving timezone changes - in that case adding 24hrs can either stay on the same day, or be two days ahead.

  Date calculations are much more complicated than they first seem.

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  • 13 Jan, 2022
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  I didn't like that C3 can't read my clipboard for copy and pasting graphics :D

  C3 can copy/paste images in Chromium-based browsers.

  Side question, any chance we can get a desktop version?

  Use the "Install as app" option in Chromium-based browsers and it looks and works just like a desktop version.

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  • 12 Jan, 2022
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  I'm afraid it's impossible to know what happened from just this information. If you can identify steps that cause a project to be corrupted, please file an issue. Other than that, I'd advise restoring a backup.

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  • 12 Jan, 2022
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  See the built-in Detecting input method example.

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  • 12 Jan, 2022
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  It is intentional: currently all exported files are flattened to a single directory. It was done years ago probably as it simplified some cases around fetching project files, but it's probably a mistake. However it is now difficult to change as fixing that would break all existing projects that depend on the flat folder structure.

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  • 12 Jan, 2022
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  The IObjectClass method getPickedInstances() returns an array of all picked instances in an event.

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  • 12 Jan, 2022
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  The scope in modules works per-file rather than globally.

  This is all covered in the Learn JavaScript in Construct tutorial series. I'd recommend going through that to learn the basics of JavaScript, scope, and how it all works in Construct.

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  • 12 Jan, 2022
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  IIRC you only actually need a Mac to publish to the app store, but you should definitely have a real device to test on. That's the only way you can be sure your app actually works and runs well.