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  • NW.js itself has been a regular source of difficult and complicated bugs and issues in the past, which is why I would prefer everyone moved over to using it in the browser instead. It tends to work better there.

    The only reason now to use NW.js editor is really just for convenient testing of the NW.js plugin. But even then you could use the editor in the browser, and use Remote Preview for NW.js to test the NW.js parts. You could also design your events to still do something useful when NW.js is not supported, e.g. fall back to placeholder data instead of reading files from disk, so you could do most of your testing in-browser anyway and then just occasionally remote preview or even fully export to test the NW.js parts.

    The new Windows and macOS desktop wrappers are much simpler and should be highly compatible with browser features. It's also possible to add extra runtime features like file system access in a way compatible with browsers (e.g. how Construct can use files on disk in Chrome). So in the long term I'd like to move to a world where the NW.js plugin is basically replaced by browser-compatible alternatives. Then there shouldn't be much need for NW.js left at all by the end - especially not for the editor. (But for backwards-compatibility, we'll likely keep supporting the NW.js export option for a long time anyway.)

  • IIRC it's always been there, ever since we first added support for app bundles.

  • All the conditions are in the same event block, so it will only be true when you hold all those keys down, in which case it will run all the actions and similate all controls at once. You should split those out in to separate event blocks.

  • There's already an option to build a signed app bundle in Construct, too.

  • Premultiplied alpha is an internal detail and you shouldn't need to worry about it at all. Just import normal images (with unpremultiplied alpha) and Construct sorts out whether or not they get premultiplied.

    It's not clear from those images that the problem is anything to do with premultiplied alpha anyway. It looks like maybe the effect is made of two images, and you only imported one.

  • Your last post has a different error message, so looks like an unrelated issue.

    I am pretty sure that if you get an error writing to storage, it's because the browser settings have been changed to block storage.

  • Usually if you have a block of repetitive conditions like that, there's a better way to do it without the repetition. For example lots of conditions with an incrementing number could be replaced by a single read from an array. But it depends on exactly what you're doing, which isn't shown in your post.

  • It should still work with Visual Studio 2017. This tutorial describes how to export. It does not work in Visual Studio 2019 because Microsoft dropped support for it in that version, which is one of the reasons we're removing it: it looks like Microsoft are retiring it themselves.

  • These days most Construct users who publish to console go via third-party porting companies.

  • That error ("A mutation operation was attempted on a database...") is what you get when you disable websites being able to store any data locally in Firefox settings. I think the option is called "never remember history" or something, or it might be some other tracking prevention feature. If you block any website storing data, then your project can't store any data either.

  • It's actually saved to IndexedDB (a different subfolder), but as noted it's stored in an internal database format, so there's nothing much useful you can find in File Explorer.

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  • I'm afraid I don't think browsers provide a way to turn off antialiasing. You'd have to use a SpriteFont.

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