johnrazor

Just like yesterday, the driver is not valid for this computer ....

ACER cut corners and modified the driver which is understandable. The computer was dirt cheap.

Anyway, I am heading back to C2 and try to mess with the background settings. MAYBE i did something stupid there?

John,

I downloaded a diver from that page yesterday but the size was different ... so I am trying again. You never know.

I just discovered something weird.

I loaded the online verson which worked fine on this computer but just now, it acted up.

What it is doing:

When I click on the keys (same when i touch) it becomes transparent and a different layout is visible behind the keyboard.

I am beginning to suspect that I did something wrong on the C2 side???

I will investigate this and report back in about 10 minutes.

Thanks for the link. YOU are in my will!

I admire you drive and determination.

You have created a lot of content with very limited tools.

Keep going and making the most of with what you have.

Sooner or later, it will pay off.

Good luck!

John,

that is the WEIRD part!

I can preview the same app (that flickers when previewed from within C2 > preview) once it is on the net and it displays fine.

But locally, on that machine, every capx I load flickers.

At first I figured that it is the latest beta and ignored it but now I know that it is on my end.

There isn't really anything installed other than C2 because I do all of the development on the Laptop which also runs C2 under Win7 and all the gfx work on the iMac, my baby which always works.

Just so you know ... I am used to that.

EVERY TIME in my life, when I work on something that matters, something that becomes a product, the hardware around me fails colossally. That's why I bought the iMac in the first place.

johnrazor

holy moly, you are on to something here.

Yesterday, as you know, I had somewhat of a setback because of two issues.

The Visual Studio one is now fixed and was my fault because I downloaded Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop (I don't know what "that" is for but the "for Desktop" is not able to open our stuff.

The second issue is still ongoing.

I have a high-end MSI laptop with I use for mechanical engineering apps like SolidWorks.

To make W8.1 games, I bought an inexpensive ACER Aspire. It has 6GIG of RAM and a Intel 4600 GFX chip.

That GFX chip is customized which means that I can't just download an updated driver from Intel.

To make things worse, ACER doesn't have an updated driver available.

The reason why this is important is because I can't test my C2 games on that machine.

Every time I press the mouse or touch the screen, it flickers.

Some capx files I have downloaded from this forum flicker right upon opening the app in a browser.

I would like to send "a" version of my piano app to Microsoft and then update it on a bi-weekly basis.

The play-back function would lift this app up several notches and is a "must add" feature for sure.

Let's think about this and in the meantime, I will try to tweak the app and sometime this evening, send it to Microsoft.

Let's hope it works on their end and they approve it.

Sorry to bring up this somewhat old post ....

To check if my gfx card causes severe flickering, I've opened the above capx file and experienced that same as I see on my system.

So now it looks as if my gfx card driver (which is hard to update because I bought a cheap ACER computer to just compile W8 apps) prevents me from working.

If someone can confirm this, I'd be grateful.

Here is what happens when I load the above pathfinder.capx

It loads fine in C2 but as soon as I test the app (preview) the flickering begins.

I am sure it is my system

Thank you volkiller730

but re-installing fixed everything.

Actually, if someone reads this PLESE NOTE:

DO NOT install Visual Studio 2013 for Windows Desktop

I have no idea what that is or does and I was not able to use it.

Installing: Visual Studio 2013 for Windows (takes a while) will

end with a license install, log in to your MS account etc...

I am testing now and everything works ... I think

Sorry about the first post. It IS confusing because I was disappointed that my app didn't work well on w8.

I am running VStudio on a new computer that has w8.1 as an operating system.

Right now, I am re-installign VS becasues I think it never installed right in the first place.

Originally, I did a web install.

Anyway, I am a Mac guy and have a very low opinion on anything Microsoft makes. Good thing we don't have to pay for VS.

volkiller730

did you install any other SDK's or any plugins?

It is totally weird that I cant even load a simple demo app with one coloured sprite and no functionality to speak of.

Something is very wrong here.

I just made another dummy project with C2.

Filled in all the data and info text.

Added the W8 object (left it at default values)

and exported as a Windows Store 8.1 app.

Opened the destination folder, and clicked the .sln file.

Visual studio opens right away with the msg Unsupported!

I can't get past that point which is very disappointing because I am pressed for time.

OK, it's not my app.

I've made a new, very simple app, filled in some sample info and exported.

Same thing. Unsupported.

At this point, I think I might try and download the VS2013 90 day demo because I smell that ether VS2013 Express is no good or I don't have the right version.

I'll be back!

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On second thought, that requires 6GIG oh HD space which is a lot for something that might not even work and can only be used for 90 days.

Which version do you guys use to prepare your apps for the Windows Store?

I have tried to open the app (which was created on W7 and works as expected) with C2 running on W8.1 and then export it again as a Windows Store app.

The project file is only 3kb. Is that normal??? seems small.

The popup error msg is:

Unsupported

This version of VS is unable to open the following projects. The project types may not be installed or this version of VS may not support them ....

Then I click on the OK button which opens a local web page.

The main error msg there is: The application which this project type is based on was not found.

Unfortunately, I don't know what that means?

My version of VS 2013 is: 12.0.30501.00 Update 2 with .NET Framework version 4.5.51641

I am not a fan of the new W8.1 UI but that aside, I develop on a laptop which has W7 installed and everything works as expected.

Today, I've exported a Windows Store project which I've opened on the W8 computer (running 8.1) and it failed to import.

So, I've loaded the construct project in the W8 computer thinking that if I save from there, it would be possible to import it into Visual Studio Express for desktop 2013.

The first thing I notice is that under W8, my apps look ugly!

The background flickers between black and white (should be solid white) and every time I click or tap the screen, it too flickers.

On top of all of that, VS2013 can not open my project file.

VS Solution explorer adds (incompatible) next to my app name and underneath,

The application is not installed.

This was supposed to be easy.

Anyone experiencing the same?