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Construct 3 r408

New examples; compatibility updates; bug fixes

25 September, 2024 ()

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It's the start of a new release cycle, and we have lots of changes for you once again! These include bug fixes, compatibility updates, performance improvements and more.

One significant change this release is increasing the minimum supported iOS/Safari version to 15, dropping support for iOS/Safari 13 and 14. This might seem like a big change, but in practice it shouldn't be: there are no iOS devices for which iOS 13 or 14 are the last supported version (see here). In other words any device still running iOS 13 or 14 can be updated to iOS 15, and public usage data numbers indicate the vast majority already have. Updating the minimum version allows us to take advantage of more advanced web technologies in Construct, so this should allow us to do much more while having little impact on compatibility in practice.

We've now removed support for minifying with Closure Compiler on export - it now always uses UglifyJS. So far we're not aware of any issues with using UglifyJS, but as ever let us know if you come across any.

Other changes include some new examples demonstrating the use of audio worklets and import maps, some scripting updates, improved performance for hierarchy conditions like 'Pick children', and a big batch of bug fixes. Happy testing!

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New Additions

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New examples 'Audio worklets', 'Import maps'
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AJAX: 'On upload progress' trigger

Changes

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iOS exports: remove support for iOS 13 and 14
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iOS exports: add iOS 18 to version list
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Remove support for minifying with Closure Compiler
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Tags: change how tags are shown in the Timeline bar, Z order bar and Instance bar
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Improve error message if project fails to open due to expression name collision (e.g. instance variable named "Tags")

Bug Fixes

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iOS exports: versions could be incorrectly disabled after exporting with AVIF
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Android exports: could get stuck on splash screen instead of showing 'Software update needed' message
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Tiled Background: loading image from URL ignored wrap mode
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Text: horizontal alignment could sometimes result in blurry text
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Project bar: some layout properties not copied over after pasting
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Animations editor: image points could change position unexpectedly
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Ease editor: crash changing the segment type
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Hierarchies: runtime crash loading hierarchies from JSON when some of the instances have the "No Save" behaviour (regression r391)
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Instance bar: bar not updating properly after making hierarchy changes
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Instance bar: expand/collapse context menu options not behaving as expected
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Instance bar: making the bar pane small enough preventing pointer interactions
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Instance bar: selection lost when scrolling and highlighting search results
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Instance bar: clearing the search box not always restoring the state of the bar

Performance Improvements

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Optimize efficiency of 'Pick children', 'Pick Nth child' and 'Pick parent' conditions when all children initially picked

SDK updates

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Add runtime.sdk.getObjectClassBySid()

Scripting updates

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Disable worker mode when import maps used (as browsers do not support this yet)
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Update default tsconfig.json target to ES2022
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Fix import maps not working when running with debugger
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Make runtime.platformInfo always available (even without Platform Info object)

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  • "It's the start of a new release cycle, and we have lots of changes for you once again!"

    Changes : "Remove supports"

  • Optimize efficiency of 'Pick children', 'Pick Nth child' and 'Pick parent' conditions when all children initially picked

    This is such an important optimization. Please add it to the LTS version!

  • Good day! Due to the removal of support for the old minifier, I have a couple of questions:

    1. Will there be no problems with loading game saves (embedded) made in the game with old minifier and their loading in the game with the new minifier?

    2. I tried to compress my project with Uglify (Advanced mode), and noted that the file c3main.js became bigger (1282Kb vs 996Kb) and part of the code in it looks not “compressed” - is it normal?

    Thanks.

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      1. The new minifier should work the same as the old one, and that includes full support for savegames.

      2. The new minifier doesn't achieve quite as small sizes as the old one, which is a known difference, but it has much better support for modern JavaScript so we have to switch to it anyway to be able to keep making further improvements to Construct. It should still be highly effective at protecting projects against reverse-engineering as it still makes the code very difficult to read.

  • Hello, since the release of version 400, the ajax plugin requests for files within the project stopped working in my project, I would like to register this bug.

    for example if I use AJAX get url FILE&".xml"

    It's been giving an error since version r400

    • update about the bug, it only happens if the AJAX URL characters are in capslook.

      I ask you to fix this, because as my entire 3-year project worked with more than 10,000 well-defined events, they are using words in capslook (capital letters)

  • Error on [IMPORT MAPS] example ..

    screenshot : prnt.sc/t0mXQahqtAw2