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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 7 Jun, 2020
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  The editor already skips a warning if there are no references. If you see a warning about deleting something, it means it has references.

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  • 7 Jun, 2020
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  For the record I covered this in more detail in a new blog post: The surprising difficulty of resizing images on spritesheets

  Using any fixed size border/padding does not always solve the problem - as noted the only real solution is power-of-two size and positioning on spritesheets, which is what the downscaling quality "High" setting does in Construct.

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  • 6 Jun, 2020
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  It looks like a problem with a third-party addon you're using, because the error refers to things that aren't used anywhere in Construct.

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  There is no such thing as pixels per meter in-game. Maybe you looked up the physical size of a pixel on a computer display? How many pixels are equivalent to a meter depends entirely on your game design. For example if you draw an atom with electrons flying around, a pixel is extremely small. If you draw the entire planet Earth floating past, a pixel is very large. It's up to you.

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  And yes, that's how I currently use Find, but if you name it similar to other objects and if it has a long name you don't remember and only type a partial, you can get more results of something making it hard to see.

  You're talking about a text search. 'Find all references' is better than that. It gives you exact results regardless of the name of the object,, because it looks at the project structure rather than the names of things. It can tell the difference between Sprite2 and Sprite20 for example.

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  • 5 Jun, 2020
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  Please do not post the same thread multiple times, and please be patient when waiting for responses on the forum. I deleted your other thread. See the Forum & Community guidelines

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  It's a limitation of common keyboard hardware, not Construct. Look up key ghosting.

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  • 5 Jun, 2020
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  The 'Find all references' is specifically designed to show you a complete list of everywhere something is used in your project. One of its uses is to review all usages of something before you delete it.

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  • 5 Jun, 2020
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  It was moved to the Platform Info object.

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  • 5 Jun, 2020
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  If you save your project to the browser storage, and then you clear your browser storage, it also clears your project. Construct warns about this when you save there. You should always keep backups of all digital work you do, for this reason and many others.

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  • 5 Jun, 2020
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  C3 should already be preventing this. It might be selecting on the parent page though (the Newgrounds page), in which case Newgrounds would need to prevent it.

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  • 5 Jun, 2020
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  Mipmaps improve the rendering quality and performance when downscaling sprites smaller than their source image. It's a similar case to a far-away texture in 3D - it's just another way it appears resized smaller.

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  Citation needed! I'd argue iframes are more secure and more performant, since in the case of cross-origin iframes the browser can put the game frame in its own independent process.

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  The runtime has to control the position of the canvas in order to know how mouse/touch input event co-ordinates relate to layouts, and to correctly position form controls. That's pretty difficult if it gets placed in a div. It's also not clear why you would want to do that instead of using an iframe.

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  I'm afraid without reliable steps to reproduce the problem, it's virtually impossible to do anything. This ought to be impossible. I have no idea how it could happen.