RE: lockup/ringing: Go to Preferences and hit 'Reset dialogs'. The ringing generally means that the dialog is off screen, so you can't see/do anything with it. This will get it back on the screen.

Thanks your tip really helped me! I was also facing the issue of "Add frames" and all other buttons grayed out when trying to add images. Resetting all dialogs and restarting the program helped.

You can lock the orientation from both the project properties within Construct 2 as well as in CocoonJS.

Otherwise, if you want to allow auto-rotation, you should be able to use these values of the Touch object to determine the orientation:

Alpha

Beta

Gamma

Return the device's orientation if supported, or 0 at all times if not supported. Alpha is the compass direction in degrees. Beta is the device front-to-back tilt in degrees (i.e. tilting forwards away from you if holding in front of you). A positive value indicates front tilt and a negative value indicates back tilt. Gamma is the device left-to-right tilt in degrees (i.e. twisting if holding in front of you). A positive value indicates right tilt and a negative value indicates left tilt.

Here is some simple psuedo-code for my game that moves a ball by tilting the phone (works for me on Android by exporting through CocoonJS):

If Touch {alpha + beta + gamma)orientations NOT = 0,

--- Sprite Set 8Direction Vector X to Touch.AccelerationYWithG * 32

--- Sprite Set 8Direction Vector Y to Touch.AccelerationXWithG * 32

(Sprite has 8Direction Behavior attached to it)

Note that X and Y values are interchanged - this is done by purpose as my game is in Landscape mode and I believe the values that are being passed are assuming Portrait mode. The value 32 could be replaced by any other number - the higher the number the faster the response speed.

Please let me know if this works for you, or if you have a better idea.

I did a tetris game some weeks ago, and to get the shape I simply wrote down some relative coordinates.

It looked like

-2,0|-1,0|0,0|1,0#0,-2|0,-1|0,0|0,1
0,0|1,0|0,-1|1,1
-1,0|0,0|1,0|0,-1#0,-1|0,0|0,1|1,0#-1,0|0,0|1,0|0,1#0,-1|0,0|0,1|-1,0
-1,0|0,0|0,-1|1,-1#-1,-1|-1,0|0,0|0,1
-1,-1|0,-1|0,0|1,0#0,1|0,0|1,0|1,-1
-1,0|0,0|1,0|1,1#0,1|0,0|0,-1|1,-1#-1,0|-1,1|0,1|1,1#-1,1|0,1|0,0|0,-1
-1,1|-1,0|0,0|1,0#1,1|0,1|0,0|0,-1#-1,1|0,1|1,1|1,0#0,1|0,0|0,-1|-1,-1

With 4 levels of token:

a line break (newline) separates each shapes

a # separates each possible rotation

a | separates each block coordinates

a , separates X and Y coordinates.

Then I just had to select a random line, and to make it simple I just used the first rotation on spawn.

Can you please elaborate further or provide a sample capx. Thanks!

Can you please share for the benefit of others, what kinds of workarounds can be used in place of "containers" or grouped sprites?