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  Hmm, you're right, it shouldn't have cut off the write. Can you send me the .cap then?

  I'm afraid you're currently learning the hard way that you should keep backups!

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  Just installed Google Chrome. It's come a long way since the original release that I tried - Chrome 3 is extremely fast, very nice looking and apparently Chrome 4 is even faster!

  I might switch - I was using Firefox, but Chrome seems newer and faster.

  Anyone else tried it and liking it?

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  No. Try it and you will see, the layout state reverts, unless you explicitly save it with one of the system save actions. Global objects continue to exist (and be modified) after you leave a layout with a global object on it - and when you come back to that same layout, the global object is not recreated (ie. global objects on a layout are only ever created once).

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  Have you looked at the sin behavior? Or did you want more of a ferry-across-the-river type movement?

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  BTW, when a game in Construct is running, and that a layout is being played, are other layouts running too? or just on pause or standby or something.

  When you change layout, the old layout stops running, so only the current layout is ever running.

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  Did you keep backups? Construct can't really protect you against yanking out your flash drive while it's saving to it - you might have simply cut off the file from being written half way through the save, corrupting the file. I hope you kept backups!

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  For the car behavior:

  1. You could manually adjust the speed. I think speed goes negative when you are reversing, so have some event to increase the speed (towards zero) when reversing.

  2. All behavior's controls are specified in Application Properties, under Controls header. You should be able to change up/down/left/right to WASD there.

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  Have you tried some tutorials, like Ghost Shooter or Platform School? See

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  Toralord is right, you can just set a number then use subevents to check that number, like a series of Ifs following on each other.

  Just make the events in the easiest way possible and don't worry about inefficiency - events add so much overhead that it's kind of ridiculous to worry about efficiency. You could set up an if-else-if-else-if event chain, but paradoxically, that might be less efficient, because the 'else' event does some special processing.

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  For consistency it's probably a good idea to always use backslashes for local paths. AppPath returns a path with backslashes, so if you append forward slashes you end up with a path like this:

  C:\Games\MyGame\pictures/file.png

  Luckily Windows can work out what this means but I'd stick with backslashes all the way through to be on the safe side...

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  Well, you need to copy Python26.dll from the Construct install directory to the same directory as your game. You should have seen a message telling you that you needed to do that when you enabled Python. If you're not using Python scripts, you can turn it off in Application Properties and you won't need that file.

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  • 4 Nov, 2009
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  Sounds awesome

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  It's easily possible in events! You just need a little math. If seconds is your number in seconds, floor(seconds / 60) is the minutes (divide by 60 and round down), and seconds % 60 is the seconds counter (modulo 60, ie. remainder after dividing by 60).

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  There are built in save/load actions in the system object which take care of all the complexities for you.