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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 25 Mar, 2020
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  You can pass instances around directly, so you generally don't need UIDs. If you have already got an instance reference, you can just keep using it, there's no need to loop through all instances.

  I'm still making the same point: you need to think about scripting with a different approach.

  You can't save instances to storage though, so I guess you need UIDs for that. I'll look in to adding a scripting method to get an instance by its UID, but as I keep repeating, this isn't something you should need for general purpose code. I am sure there are pure JS engines out there that do not use anything like UIDs at all. You can go a long way without them in code.

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  • 25 Mar, 2020
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  I have to ask again, why are you trying to pick by UID in script? Usually the normal thing to do is just pass an instance reference directly, so there is no need for UIDs. Are you passing UIDs between events and scripts or something?

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  • 25 Mar, 2020
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  Yes, look in the scripting reference, there are already methods to get first/all instances for both picked and all created instances.

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  • 25 Mar, 2020
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  The documentation is telling you how to do exactly that, with the returned Map. Click the link for 'Map'.

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  • 25 Mar, 2020
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  The Function feature was redesigned last year. You'll need to use the new built-in functions instead. The tutorial needs updating to reflect this, but it's a pretty big job...

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  • 25 Mar, 2020
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  The whole idea of "picking" is exactly what I said before. It doesn't really apply to scripting. You have to adopt a different approach. I guess you could use a series of array filters, but it's not really the typical style for game programming in JavaScript.

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  • 24 Mar, 2020
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  The standard console logging with the Browser object should show up there too.

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  • 24 Mar, 2020
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  It's only available with a folder project saved in Chrome.

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  • 24 Mar, 2020
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  The way events work is pretty significantly different from JavaScript coding, and the typical patterns you'll use to get things done are different. So it's best not to try and think of questions like "how do I make this event in script", it's better to change your perspective to "how do I do what I need to do with JavaScript coding". For example often picking by UID is used when calling functions in events in order to pass an instance, but you should not do this in JavaScript, because you can pass an instance directly. This makes the question "how do I pick by UID?" redundant and basically wrong to ask, so (as is pretty much always the case with help anyway) it's best to focus on your goal and how to get there, not some random details.

  I must strongly discourage you from looking at the C2 runtime code. Much of it is nearly 10 years old and you can generally do much better with modern JS features. For example you pointed out some code that is far more suitable for a Map, and the only reason the C2 runtime doesn't do that, is because it didn't exist when it was first written.

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  • 23 Mar, 2020
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  Actually I was wrong, the current plan is outlined here: https://www.construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/general-discussion-7/construct-nw-js-desktop-app-131317/page-15#forumPost998032

  In short the NW.js desktop download is being kept so you can use it for NW.js testing, but that's all. All other features will be aligned to what you get in the Chrome browser.

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  • 23 Mar, 2020
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  Stop. It should stop. Like a person hitting a brick wall.

  I don't understand. This means the "push" object still runs in to it, so it still ends up overlapping a solid. From the engine's point of view, that is the same as being stuck in the wall. So there is no solution.

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 23 Mar, 2020
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  But the "push" object is solid too. So if the player doesn't go in to the solid wall, it goes in to the solid "push" object. So it still goes in to a solid, just a different one.

  What else can it do?

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  • 23 Mar, 2020
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  No, it's exactly the thing I explained in my previous post.

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  • 23 Mar, 2020
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  Open source the Construct project file. Then everything works out just fine.