Chadori's Forum Posts

  • Hi Mike at BrashMonkey,

    I think what he meant is, for example, if an animation is not looping and you want to check if it's still actively playing (since the animation will just suddenly stop, if not looping).

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  • Hi Ashley, regarding the Splashscreen (Storyboard), how come both the status bar and context menu are not hidden even when in Cover Mode (Viewport-fit)?

    It only hides after showing the Storyboard, it looks like this is only a case with Construct 3. Usual Cordova builds can hide it, as far as I know. Should I file a bug report or a feature request?

    Thank you.

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  • You're welcome tarek2.🙂

  • Hi Ashley, regarding the Splashscreen (Storyboard), how come both the status bar and context menu are not hidden even when in Cover Mode (Viewport-fit)?

    It only hides after showing the Storyboard, it looks like this is only a case with Construct 3. Should I file a bug report or a feature request?

    Thank you.

  • Hi everyone.

    The Splashscreen feature (Storyboard), now works well now in Construct 3, on the latest update.

    The Adaptive Icons (Foreground + Background) was working all this time, at first it looked broken to me since it somewhat didn't scale like Android Studio.

    To make it scale in Construct 3, you need to match the size of both Foreground and Background. And, most especially, include the transparent areas to avoid it stretching.

    It doesn't have Android Studio icon tools, but I think this is already enough for most apps, and adds simplicity.

  • Thanks lucid, works great!

    I hoped it automatically applied the Z-Order. Although I can still workaround it with layers, so as long as it works.

    Thank you again!

  • You can also lessen the amount of tick cycles.

    The Construct 3 Community made a clever tickcount % n, I wrapped it into an addon, in the C3 Addons page, click here to download.

  • I think I'm familiar with this slowdown. It's most likely not a memory leak since RAMs are massive nowadays. Most likely a CPU processing backlog, hence drop in FPS.

    Most common case is the abuse use of Every Tick. Browsers are significantly not as efficient as native applications and even native applications don't always run scripts in every frame.

    Construct 3 makes it easy to use Every Tick so casually, but it should always be used with caution and batched in a single cycle.

    Think of it like this, if the current tick cycle didn't complete the entire process of the event sheet but still need to process that same event sheet in the next cycle, then there will be more and more backlogs overtime until the CPU significantly slows down.

    Usually in app development, you would use listeners (Triggers) to apply events and only use every tick for those that has to run every frame. In order to not waste the CPU's processing power.

    It's easy to debug CPU processing in Construct 3, you can use Construct 3's built-in Debugger - Profiler.

  • Hi lahbach, sorry for not replying sooner. I made a comprehensive test with the Splashscreen feature with all related project property combination a few days ago to make sure the Storyboard feature is working.

    And yes, it doesn't work. The Splashboard image is ignored.

    Adaptive icons, using foreground and background don't work properly either. The only working one is using the App Icon purpose, then Construct 3 will make it into a one-layered adaptive icon. However, it's not really the real deal.

    If possible, you might want to consider using Android Studio or Cordova instead. You can ensure it's all working from there. There should be tutorials and documentation in the internet.

    Good luck.

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  • Hi dop2000, it will be scaled center, then cropped.

  • That's great Ashley. I was a bit confused at first where to specify the storyboard images, but then I remembered the recent Icon Purpose feature.

    For those who are wondering how it works:

    1. From the Icons folder in the Project window, add an image.
    2. Select the image.
    3. Then, from the Properties, set the Purpose parameter to Storyboard Splash.
    4. The Splashboard should be 1x the scale of your original window size. It will automatically upscale or downscale depending on the mobile phone's screen size.
    5. For more information, click Cordova Splashscreen.