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.

Yes, thank you LittleStain!

I think I was getting the two confused especially as maybe there is glitch in the example so its not showing the instance variable "number" in the editor.

Thanks for helping me out!

by clicking add/edit instance variable under instance variables in the object's properties-bar..

Yes that is the only option I can find, however that is not how it is done in the example.

In the example, the blob "number" value, auto increments every time you copy and paste an instance to the layout. So it seems to be an auto-generated instance variable. It only appears in the Properties but not in the Instance variables editor window.

I thought it may have something to do with Families but adding my sprite to a family didn't seem to make any difference.

I'm trying to chain instances of a sprite together similar to the way they're chained in the Example: Pin chain style

In the example, each instance of Blob has a number. However when I try to do this with my own layout, copies of my sprite don't have anyway to set the instance number under Instance Variables.

So I'm wondering, how do I enable the instance number option for a sprite?

Thanks!

If you haven't created any global variables then there is no folder entry in the Project tab to right click on.

To create your first global variable you need to select the Event sheet.

Right click on the event sheet and select "add global variable".