Ashley's Forum Posts

  • We did some maintenance on the Remote Preview server last week and it accidentally introduced a bug where the host would be disconnected after 25 seconds. This has now been resolved so it should be working normally again (I just did a test and I could successfully host a Remote Preview for 5 minutes). Apologies for the inconvenience.

  • I can't tell what the problem might be just from that. I'd suggest reversing the changes and retry the merge, and make sure you do it carefully. It's best to avoid merging if you can - if you have two branches where someone does something like add an event variable with the same name, then merging them will result in a bad project. So avoid merging, and if you have to, do it really carefully. And... yeah, if you're still using r225, you should definitely update. It might be related to a bug we already fixed long ago.

  • I'd recommend a good game development maths textbook if you want to learn more - and there's a good one available free online at gamemath.com! I have the hardback edition and it's proved useful.

  • I think you'll have to report it to Valve as a bug in the overlay. The overlay is entirely controlled and rendered by Steam and the app itself has virtually no influence over it at all.

  • Construct's Mobile IAP plugin was already updated to use Google Play Billing library v5 in r347, released back in June. If you're using a third-party addon, you will need to contact the addon developer for support.

  • My best guess is it's a graphics driver bug. Try updating your drivers or test it on another machine with different hardware to see if it works there.

  • It doesn't look like that message is referring to anything that Construct itself uses. Perhaps you are using a third-party addon that uses the SafetyNet Attestation API. In that case you'd need to contact the addon developer for support.

  • On an unrelated note, I would also like to add that indeed the lack of File System access for the WebView2 export is sad.

    FWIW I submitted a WebView2 suggestion to fix that. I think a relatively small addition to WebView2 could potentially allow full file system access without prompts using the existing browser File System Access API from JavaScript.

    It's technically possible that we could hack in unrestricted file system access ourselves via the WebView2 wrapper, but it would probably mean maintaining two entirely separate file system APIs. We've been round this process a few times over the years and it's always a nightmare doing that. It's by far the best solution to get everything to work consistently cross-platform from existing browser JavaScript APIs.

  • If the same project works on other devices, I would guess it's a problem with Raspberry Pi's graphics driver. It would probably be best to report it either to the Raspberry Pi team (to fix the root cause) or to Google if the issue happens in Chromium (who might be able to work around it).

    Or, if nothing is visibly wrong with the game, you might just be able to ignore it!

  • beforelayoutstart does fire just before 'On start of layout', so it should be firing whenever that triggers, including when returning to a layout already visited. Could you share a project demonstrating your code? Perhaps there is a mistake that has confused you. For example these events fire on ILayout, and you talk about ILayer which is unrelated here, so it seems likely you mixed up something.

  • Sorry for the delay, I just went through the spam folder and approved some items so it should all be reviewed now.

    PS. Although I think the number of suggestions on the platform is enough, it is time to limit it.

    Heh, that's always been a problem with the suggestions platform - we get far, far more suggestions than we can conceivably do. I think the high end of what we can do is around one a week, so that would mean there's over 6 year's work already submitted just this year alone. I don't think limiting submissions helps, as it's possible a new submission could still be a good idea and get highly voted. I think it's best for people just to focus on only the really essential and more feasible ideas.

  • FWIW on the relevant Chrome issue it looks like they just fixed support for copying only (but not yet pasting). It'll take a couple of months for the change to arrive in a stable release, but then at least the copying feature should always work on Android, even in the WebView.

  • It's possible to warn before closing the tab with scripting and the "beforeunload" event: 

    window.addEventListener("beforeunload", e =>
{
	// if (hasUnsavedChanges)
	e.returnValue = "Save changes?";
);

    Assigning a message to e.returnValue will cause the browser to show an "Are you sure you want to leave this site?" prompt. However it is not always guaranteed to appear, and most browsers ignore the exact message you provide and just show their own stock message.

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  • I just tried it and it's working fine for me right now. The server uptime shows it's been running since at least a few hours before the time of your post.