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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 13 Mar, 2009
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  No, that's not currently supported (but the Param expression returns 0 for any parameters that are not provided).

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  • 13 Mar, 2009
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  So how can we help in order for Construct to reach a wider audience?

  That's not entirely up to us developers... a lot of people need to get involved in spreading the word, writing documentation and creating tutorials for us to be able to get anywhere near the impact companies who have advertising money can achieve.

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  • 12 Mar, 2009
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  [quote:2l0e31xp]i'm just asking you to inform me in which areas Construct lags behind

  Actually I was going to ask you where Construct lags behind Gamemaker. Personally, I've never actually used Gamemaker - I did try to give it a shot but it crashed on startup and nobody on the forums could help me (I'm sure it's just a bad luck/my PC ***** thing). Also, since we're constantly actively developing Construct, if you let us know where you think Construct is behind Gamemaker, we can either help direct you to the right features to solve the problem, or add new features which improve it.

  I think the main area Gamemaker is way ahead of us on is popularity. With a huge community comes lots of other benefits like lots of tutorials, documentation, and numerous useful sites. We don't have a lot of that right now, but obviously we hope to one day take over the world, and we still have things like Deadeye's excellent Platform School tutorial and the freshly started community site Construct Corner.

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  • 12 Mar, 2009
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  That's still the plan.

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  • 12 Mar, 2009
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  Tick the 'destroy on startup' attribute and it won't be created on startup, and therefore won't contribute to the object count, test collisions, or do anything else. It's necessary to have at least one instance of an object, so Construct knows what properties to assign an object when you create one at runtime.

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  Ah, I turned on DEP, reproduced it and managed to fix it. Fixed in next build

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  • 12 Mar, 2009
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  Those are all the plugins written in Visual C++ 6.0. Perhaps there's a setting wrong or it's just incompatible (it was made long before anything like DEP existed). All the plugins and behaviors made in Visual Studio 2005 or later don't appear on the list...

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  • 12 Mar, 2009
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  It's documented in System Expressions, is that really hidden?

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  • 12 Mar, 2009
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  Don't use unicode strings (get rid of the L). Try some basic C++ tutorials before asking some questions about the SDK. Knowing the language well is a prerequisite.

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  • 12 Mar, 2009
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  'MouseX' and 'MouseY' only account for global zoom; if you use 'MouseX("layername")', you get the appropriate value for that layer.

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  We don't use polymorphic code (nor, in theory, buffer overflows) so DEP shouldn't be an issue - a full list of the exact plugins that have errors under DEP would be useful, since they are compiled with a variety of tools, and it might help us track down the issue.

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  • 11 Mar, 2009
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  Liam, there are 129 open bugs, and we're all volunteers working in our spare time. We do things when we can.

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  • 11 Mar, 2009
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  Python works, but currently requires that you, and any end users, have Python installed, I believe. David can elaborate more.

  I'm not sure at the current time you can write your entire game in Python. It's designed to supplement the event system, not replace it - but maybe in future it will be equally as powerful.

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  • 11 Mar, 2009
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  I cannot imagine why DEP conflicts with Construct. AFAIK, DEP prevents you executing random bits of memory. Well, I don't know of anywhere Construct does that. Any DEP programmers know where this might come from? Maybe it's a bug we haven't fixed yet which DEP picks up on.

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  • 11 Mar, 2009
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  Just put another "On control 'Move up' pressed" event immediately after that other event.