Chainsaw's Forum Posts

  • I just tested installing C2 r229 under Wine. It installed but I couldn't open any projects without it crashing.

    Running C2 on Virtualbox with XP and previewing over a bridged network connection with a browser on Linux Mint 17.3 works well.

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  • Looking forward to Linux support.

    I'm finding that Linux Mint 17.3 runs very well. So well I'm going to start running my C2 projects in Linux and not Win7.

    At the moment it looks like I will still be using VirtualBox to run Construct 2 but I can test the game play at full speed on the Linux host machine.

    Anyone got Construct 2 working under Wine?

  • Hi RamPackWobble, thank you for the advice. There will be about 20 pages, which will be about 5 sprites that repeat across every page plus 2 unique sprites on each page, which would translate into almost 50 sprites.

    If I keep the resolution at the lower end that should work I hope. However I will do lots of testing.

  • Thanks ikke2902, good to know I'm on the right track.

  • I've been trying to create a page swipe action for a mobile only game.

    What I'd like to do, is emulate having multiple pages in the game and the user swipes right or left to move through the pages.

    All the pages are the same layout, so I think the pages can be made from a set of sprites. The set of sprites is then just repeated horizontally with different variations in each set.

    So while to the user it may look like they are swiping through pages, they are in fact just swiping from one sprite set to the next.

    Of course there may be a much better way to achieve this, in fact there probably is , so any suggestions would be very much appreciated.

    Thanks!

    Andy

  • Thanks for looking in to this, it looks like we did make a change to the preview server in r202. I've re-opened the report and will investigate.

    Ashley, that's great news. I know XP is an aging system but it still works great and with Construct 2, its even better.

  • OK, Finally completed my tests of R201 through to R210.

    The last release that with a functioning Preview Server for Win XP appears to be R201.

  • You can try all past releases here: https://www.scirra.com/construct2/releases

    Thanks Ashley. I've downloaded a whole series of releases to test. Unfortunately I've hit a delay, after upgrading to a Business license a few days ago, my old license stopped working and the new one too. As a working license is necessary for using the local server, I need to wait for the license problem to be fixed first.

    Note: If you have problems with your license after updating to a business license, check your Program Files/Construct 2 folder. In my case there was a copy of my old license there. As soon as I replaced it with the new license, the new license was recognized.

  • Please see troubleshooting C2's preview server.

    I reviewed our code logs and we made no changes to the preview server since r206, so I suspect this is a networking configuration issue. If you really think the problem is with Construct 2, narrowing it down to the specific release that changed would be useful.

    Hi Ashley,

    As I don't have release 205, so I can't be sure but reviewing other reports of the same issue it appears to be r206 was when the problem was introduced. It could of course have been an earlier release. All I can say for sure is that r201 works fine on XP.

  • I've just found what looks to be the same issue is reported here

    And also here

    Unfortunately both those two bug reports were closed and the issue has not been fixed.

    This appears to be an issue that affects users running the recent releases of Construct2 on Windows XP.

  • This issue seems to be affecting everyone running r204 and higher on Win XP. The only solution that works at the moment is to downgrade to an older working version.

    The last version I know of where the preview server works on Win XP is r201.

  • Did you try to set it up again?

    https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/247/ho ... al-network

    You have to provide more information than just saying it stopped working.

    What more can I provide? I don't know how to debug Construct's preview server.

    Yes of course I've tried setting the server up again. However it only works if I downgrade back to r201, which is the last release I downloaded prior to r206.

  • Problem Description

    After upgrading to release r206 or r209 from r201 the Preview Server stopped working.

    Steps to Reproduce Bug

    • Step 1 Upgrade to r209 on Windows XP OS.
    • Load any project or template.
    • Click on Run Layout.

    Observed Result

    Unable to connect

    Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 192.168.1.103:50000.

    The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.

    If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection.

    If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

    Expected Result

    The game would run in the browser as was the case for r201 and older.

    Affected Browsers

    • Chrome: (YES)
    • FireFox: (YES)
    • Internet Explorer: (YES)

    Operating System and Service Pack

    WinXP service pack 3.

    Construct 2 Version ID

    r209

  • if blob is included in the family then he gets all families instance vars.

    Yes, thanks for clarifying that!

  • For a while I still couldn't get this to work until I noticed that the instance variable in the example belongs to the family BlobFamily not the Blob.