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  • You don't need to use base64. You can save the recorded audio in the Binary Data object directly to storage using the 'Set binary item' action. You can then load it again later with 'Get binary item', and once that completes the BinaryData object's 'Get URL' expression provides a URL to the audio data.

    Normally you can't pass a URL directly to a 'Play' action. Instead to play a URL, use the 'Add remote URL' action to assign the URL a name, and then use the name in a 'Play' action.

  • Memory usage and framerate are not directly related. It's possible to have a low memory use and still have poor performance, or a high memory usage and excellent performance.

    If the framerate is struggling, it's not necessarily (and I would say probably not) the memory usage. Use Construct's profiling tools to try to identify what is causing the slowdown.

  • It doesn't detect Y or Z keys. The default controls only use the arrow keys (up, left, down, right).

  • The discrepancy in reported image memory may be due to compression, mipmapping, or engine-specific optimizations. Modern GPUs handle non-power-of-two textures well, and memory is often influenced by viewport size and scaling. To reduce image memory, consider using compressed formats and optimizing resolutions.

    This is, I'm afraid, in the context of Construct and this discussion, largely nonsense.

    If you are using AI to generate replies, don't do that. It will generate things that sound plausible but are in fact completely irrelevant and misleading.

  • Construct actually uses higher-frequency raw pointer input events to avoid being limited to V-sync rate input events.

    As I said before, the frame latency is pretty much all controlled by the browser/OS/graphics driver. There's not much Construct can do to influence it.

  • Try setting downscaling quality to "High", which can help avoid artefacts like that when resizing objects smaller.

  • One of the reasons Construct's behavior's default controls use arrow keys is because they are consistent across keyboard layouts.

    If you want WASD-style controls, it might be possible to just implement all controls (e.g. both W and Z are up, A and Q are left) and so the first thing people reach for will work - but I'm not sure if there are conflicts if you take in to account other keyboard layouts, especially if you use other keys.

  • I think it's straightforward to have translatable flowcharts: instead of an actual piece of text in a value, put the translation key, and look it up for the current language when displaying it.

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  • We basically just did some necessary maintenance on an existing feature. That's quite a different thing to implementing an entirely new feature like voice chat, which could prove complicated to develop.

  • I found a workaround for TypeScript projects: in tsconfig.json if you change "target" to "ES2021", it will transpile away public class fields (and private ones too, but with more complicated code). Then the resulting JavaScript should be compatible with Closure Compiler.

  • AI often generates stuff that looks plausible but is wrong. In this case, with your code, textBox appears to be a Text object instance, and so is an ITextInstance class. The documentation does not list that there is an elem property so it's not valid to use it. The object is not even a HTML element (as it's rendered directly in to the canvas) so CSS styling is simply not applicable to that kind of object.

    If it was a HTML element object, like "Text Input", you could call getElement() and then use the standard DOM APIs to alter its style.

  • Google Closure Compiler doesn't support public class fields by default at the moment. Finding well-maintained up-to-date minifiers has always proven difficult. I looked at UglifyJS 3, but it hasn't been updated for a year, so it doesn't seem to be actively maintained. You can export unminified and try minifying with some other build tools (or Closure Compiler if you get the right flags to make it happy).

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