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• • stemkoski
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  • 16 Jan, 2012
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  Ashley -- just downloaded and tried out r75, it works perfectly now. Thank you!

• • stemkoski
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  • 15 Jan, 2012
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  Thanks for creating and sharing the manual!

  An e-book reader that I highly recommend is Calibre - it's free, open-source, and can convert ePub to a large number of other file types (although the PDF conversion is not spectacular, otherwise I would have posted a conversion as well).

• • stemkoski
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  • 15 Jan, 2012
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  Thanks for converting the manual to PDF, it is greatly appreciated!

• • stemkoski
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  • 15 Jan, 2012
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  Figure out a kind of fix for this problem: to decrease the gap and therefore trigger the "next to wall" condition, on every tick I add to the sprite's X position dt * direction, where direction is a number variable, equal to 1 if the sprite is moving right, -1 if moving left. Hope this helps others as well!

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• • stemkoski
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  • • Joined 9 Dec, 2011
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  • 15 Jan, 2012
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  I am experiencing the same bug as alspal -- I have a sprite that contains an instance variable named "direction", I am simulating platform press right/left (depending on value of "direction") to move the sprite, and changing the value of "direction" depending on whether the sprite is next to a wall on the right/left. It usually works fine, but about 1 in 20 times the sprite gets stuck with a 1 or 2 pixel gap. I'm looking forward to the 2 pixel gap detection fix!

• • stemkoski
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  • 23 Dec, 2011
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  I'm a computer science professor in New York, and I will be using this software in my Video Game Programming course in the spring semester. My present thought is that we'll probably use Construct 2 mainly for rapid prototyping; only after some additional features are added (families, if-else, or, functions) would I consider incorporating it more extensively.

  Yes, I am aware of work-arounds and plugins for some of these missing features, but IMHO it feels inelegant -- kludgy, even -- while these features are not part of the main software. However, that being said, I still think that Construct 2 is the best software of its kind out there and I will be sticking around this community for quite some time.

• • stemkoski
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  • 10 Dec, 2011
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  Greetings,

  I am a college professor, mathematician by training but I occasionally teach computer science as well, in particular, Introduction to Java Programming and also Video Game Programming. I used to teach the Video Game course completely in Java, but next semester I am hoping to incorporate Scirra in some significant way.