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  • 18 Oct, 2019
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  I looked up the security issue it's highlighting. As far as I can tell it doesn't matter and has no serious consequence for Construct games. So you can just ignore the message.

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  • 18 Oct, 2019
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  The three options we officially recommend now are:

  1. Use C3's mobile app build service to build C2 exports.
  2. Use an actively supported third-party build service like PhoneGap Build.
  3. Use the Cordova CLI. This is a free manual build tool that works offline. (This option is more appropriate for advanced users.)
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  • 17 Oct, 2019
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  Note also the documentation for the behaviors property in the scripting reference for instances.

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  • 17 Oct, 2019
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  You can also just save as single file in the desktop build to get a .c3p. As it happens there is also experimental support for opening folder projects in the browser.

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  • 17 Oct, 2019
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  You can use the browser version. A project file is just a zipped project folder renamed to .c3p.

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  • 16 Oct, 2019
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  Having implemented this for Construct's Layout View, I can tell you this is surprisingly complicated, involves tons of work, and is full of many awkward and non-obvious tweaks to provide a decent user experience. Basically you should be aware this is more-or-less expert level stuff and it's going to be hard going. There is far, far more to it than first meets the eye (if you want it to be good, anyway). Just as an example, in Construct's Layout View the code to handle the resize handles alone (that's just handling the four corners of the selection box for the purposes of resizing) is over 1500 lines of JavaScript code.

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  • 16 Oct, 2019
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  That option doesn't affect the service worker. It only sets whether the runtime will be hosted in the DOM or a Web Worker.

  Currently there's no option to turn off service workers, because as far as I'm aware there's no need to. So why would you need to do that?

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  • 16 Oct, 2019
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  The offer described in the first post in this thread is still active.

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  • 16 Oct, 2019
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  Of course the attached event sheet should have some restrictions, like referencing only the family object (no other objects) and not including other event sheets.

  That is a really severe restriction. It may even make the feature too restricted to be useful.

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  • 16 Oct, 2019

  And I don't want copies backed up on cloud or via a wifi connection; it's too risky for the data to get lost or corrupted.

  Actually, I'd say this is a much safer save options. If you only have a local copy, you have a single point of failure - you risk losing your work in the event of software failure, hardware failure, theft, fire, flood etc. Cloud save is available on any device and many cloud services also have built-in backups, e.g. restoring a file to any time in the past 30 days. If you have important work I'd highly recommend setting up at least a backup to a cloud service.

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  • 15 Oct, 2019
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  Yep, you're just slowly re-discovering what that existing bug covers.

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  • 15 Oct, 2019
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  It's a bug in Chrome. IIRC it should only affect preview mode and will go away once you publish.

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  • 15 Oct, 2019
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  Of course this should never happen. If you can figure out how this happened it would be a high priority to fix, but we'd need steps to reproduce as per the bug report guidelines. As with any digital work you should keep regular backups, so restore a recent one and continue working. If you don't have a recent backup, you have learned a lesson in why you need backups, and you can send your project to ashleyawg@scirra.com where I can try to recover it, but I can't guarantee anything.

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  • 15 Oct, 2019
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  Use postMessage().

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  • 15 Oct, 2019
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  Listen for the "keydown" event as documented in the scripting reference.