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- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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Remember to think about the inherited classes. The ISpriteInstance manual entry states it derives from IWorldInstance, which in turn states it derives from IInstance. So all the properties and methods covered in all three manual entries are available for Sprite instances. (This is the standard way object-oriented programming works in a range of languages.)
- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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Don't guess -look in the manual to see what methods and properties you can actually use. In this case you want the IWorldInstance property colorRgb, e.g. to set a red filter:
inst.colorRgb = [1, 0, 0];

You might also want to take a look at using TypeScript which provides precise autocomplete and error checking to help catch mistakes like the one you made.
- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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You can diff the JSON files for the event sheets. I realize it might not be too easy to read but it will show things like where additions, changes and removals have been made.
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The latest beta release r401 may be able to open the project, as it has improved automatic handling of invalid names. It may also be able to show the first invalid name it encountered which could help speed up identifying the invalid names if there's only a small number of them. This guide has some more information.
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- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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Construct doesn't support asyncronous loop condition methods. You'll have to find another way to achieve this.
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In r401 the Mobile Advert plugin has now been updated. Internally it has switched over to using community-admob-plus-cordovazgk@1.32.8 which now uses Google Mobile Ads SDK v23.2.0 for Android (and v11.3.0 for iOS). Hopefully this solves the immediate problem - let us know how it works out. We'll continue to review options for better long-term maintenance.
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This is now supported in r401 with the new method createLoopingConditionContext(). You can use it like this (sample code for a 'TestLoop' condition that repeats a number of times):
TestLoop(count) { const loopCtx = this.runtime.sdk.createLoopingConditionContext(); for (let i = 0; i < count; ++i) { loopCtx.retrigger(); if (loopCtx.isStopped) break; } loopCtx.release(); }
- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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If that post doesn't help, send your project to supporttxj@construct.net and we'll take a look.
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I've already been through it all - the documentation doesn't cover it at all and from what it says it should work, but it doesn't. It's a bug in Steam and you need to get through to their technical team to get them to fix it. I'd happily talk to anyone on the Steam technical team, but I haven't been able to get through to them myself, even by filing bugs and doing everything I can think of. If anyone has any contacts at Steam, please try to get them on it!
- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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This is a normal feature of browsers: they restrict media playback until there is an interaction. It's covered in the Video plugin manual entry under "Playback restrictions".
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It's not supported and has been removed entirely. I don't believe it actually had any legitimate use and the main impact it has was to cause a bunch of bugs in other areas.

I'm afraid we will not support a feature just because it works around a bug in a graphics driver. In that case the graphics driver needs to be fixed, not Construct.
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If you think you've run in to a problem with Construct please file an issue following all the guidelines, otherwise generally it's impossible to help.