Ashley's Forum Posts

  • It's difficult to help without more information, such as sharing the affected project, or checking the browser console for more detailed error messages.

  • Thanks, fixed the spelling.

  • Families exist mainly to help handle picking in event sheets. I don't think they have any particular applicability to scripting.

  • i am coming from c# and backends like php where i am used to strict types and not loose types like in js.

    You might like to try using TypeScript which gives you strict type checking.

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  • You can either change the fullscreen mode to fill the entire display and then you can control everything that is drawn (but have to deal with different aspect ratios), or you can use HTML/CSS to customize what appears in the background. The area with the background color is just the HTML document background, and the project appears on a canvas element within that.

  • In settings, do you have 'Notify me about updates to beta releases' set? If so that's correct - you've asked it to tell you if there's a newer beta release, and so if you visit the latest stable release with a newer beta available, you'll get an update prompt.

  • You haven't shared a project file so I'm guessing, but I suspect you may need to generate a URL that is relative to the page URL, otherwise it takes it relative to the script being run, which is in a subfolder when exported. Something like new URL("worker.js", location.href).toString() should do the trick.

    However I'd add you probably don't need to use runtime.createWorker() any more - IIRC all modern browsers now support creating nested workers, and that method mainly existed to work around browsers that didn't support that.

  • Is there a way to check if the File System plugin is active or available during runtime?

    That's what the Desktop features supported condition is for.

  • I can't find anything that says Game Center is a requirement to publish to the Apple Arcade. It's also possible a third-party addon could support Game Center and if there really is demand for it I'd expect to see such an addon appear at some point.

  • Exoticaleathers - your response sounds like it was AI generated - it reads like a plausible response but is actually misleading. Please see the Forum & Community guidelines which don't allow the use of AI in the forum.

  • Support for the Game Center plugin was deprecated in r413. As far as we can tell it gets very little usage, very few iOS users use Game Center, and it was difficult to maintain.

  • With the File System object in a Windows WebView2 export, it can be done like this:

    • When you want to save (e.g. on pressing 'S'), use the Save to JSON system action
    • In the system trigger On save complete, use the File System action Write text file to write to something like picker tag "<documents>", folder path "mygame/mysave.json", with text set to the system expression SaveStateJSON

    That will then save the current game state to a path like Documents/mygame/mysave.json in a desktop exporter like Windows WebView2.

    To load you can do what amounts to the same thing in reverse:

    • When you want to load (e.g. on pressing 'L'), use the File System action Read text file to read from the same details (i.e. picker tag "<documents>", folder path "mygame/mysave.json") - but use a file tag like "loading"
    • In the File System trigger On file operation complete, enter the file tag "loading" again - this triggers when the save file has been loaded. Then use the system action Load from JSON to load the expression FileSystem.FileText.

    That's the basic pattern - once you get that working it shouldn't be too hard to vary it for multiple saves (just change the file path). You could also use List content to find the existing save files.

  • My experience with using AI for coding even with very widely used languages (e.g. JavaScript and C++) is it's good for beginner level questions but is pretty clueless when it comes to advanced questions - and it never seems to say "I don't know", instead it makes up answers that are either wrong or useless. Another problem is it often uses out-of-date techniques. It seems if something has been correct for 10 years, and then a year or two ago it was deprecated and replaced with something else, the AI keeps advising to use the deprecated approach, probably because there's more training data for it. It doesn't seem to know about relevancy or API lifecycles - after all they ultimately come down to predicting the next word - and so even when correct often the information is still out-of-date.

    Construct is less used and so has less training data than those other languages, so unfortunately that means it will probably struggle even with some more basic questions. It's a problem on the forum too, where sometimes people answer questions with what look like AI-generated posts which sound plausible but are in fact completely wrong or misleading, and then I (or others) feel obliged to step in and issue a correction, which takes up more of our time. For this reason we've had a "Please don't use AI" rule in our Forum & Community guidelines.

    Perhaps AI will end up changing the world but I have to say, at the moment, it doesn't seem to be that clever yet.

  • It looks like this has already been reported here.