I recently posted an app to my bluehost website. I then discovered that bluehost offers a free (shared) SSL certificate so I went ahead and got that working. This is actually kind of important because my app uses voice recognition, and without SSL it asks for permission every. time. you. click. the. talk. button.

I can now get to my app using an "https://" link OR the old "http://" link.

Here's the problem: I made a small update and uploaded it. When I use the new link the app doesn't detect that there is a new version. It's just using the cached one. (Even after repeated page reloads, after restarting the browser, etc.) The old "http://" link picked up the change immediately and downloaded the new version.

Why is only one link working? They are both pointing to the same files, right? Confused.

Ashley I just downloaded the latest version and uploaded a new file to my website. The only difference I see is that WindowinnerHeight now reports as 960 instead of 928.

PROGRAM:

App: Speech Synthesis Demo

Build: r223

Fullscreen in browser: Letterbox scale

Window size: 640 x 260

LAPTOP (full screen):

WindowinnerWidth: 1920

WindowinnerHeight: 955

IPAD PRO:

WindowinnerWidth: 1366

WindowinnerHeight: 960 (was 928)

Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help you fix the problem.

I think this was user error. I did another export and it seems to be working now.

— In the past I have used the "How Do I..." section when I have very specific questions. This one was a bit more general so I picked the "General" section. Should that section be used for something else?

I have an exterior Project File that I generate using Excel. This gets uploaded when I export my project and everything works great.

I'd like to be able to update my website directly from Excel (if the only thing changing is that single data file). So I wrote some Excel code to do the following:

1. Generate a .json file (the Project File)

2. Upload the .json file to my server

3. Load latest offline.appcache from project folder

4. Replace the timestamp (#98769808) with a random number

5. Upload offline.appcache to my server

Everything seems to be working fine, but C2 isn't recognizing that it needs to update. Do I need to use an actual timestamp instead of just a random number? If so, what is the format?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks!

Ashley Here are the results of the test you requested:

PROGRAM:

App: Speech Synthesis Demo

Build: r222

Fullscreen in browser: Letterbox scale

Window size: 640 x 260

LAPTOP (full screen):

WindowinnerWidth: 1920

WindowinnerHeight: 955

IPAD PRO:

WindowinnerWidth: 1366

WindowinnerHeight: 928

QUESTION: I don't know if these values are expected or indicate some kind of iOS issue. Anyone?

Ashley I just downloaded r222, built my app, uploaded it to my website, and brought it up on my iPad Pro. After it updated and restarted the page looked exactly the same. (See picture above.)

DETAILS:

Resolution: 900x525

Fullscreen in browser: Letterbox scale

Is there anything else you want me to look at or try?

NOTE: I didn't uninstall r221. Hopefully, that didn't invalidate the test.

I just logged in to post some pictures of the issue. Hopefully r222 will work a bit better. Will check it out later.

Here's how my app looks on several different devices:

MY LAPTOP:

MY WIFE'S IPAD3:

MY IPHONE:

MY IPAD PRO

Great story, Ciaphuas! Nice to see that you are pursuing one of your passions!

Long time game designer here who does a little bit of coding. I'm really enjoying Construct 2, but I sometimes miss actual programming. I've been looking at Corona recently, but I suspect common sense will win out in the end and I'll stick with C2. (For prototypes and web stuff. I'll probably choose Fusion 2.5 or Gamemaker Studio if I decide to make something for one of the mobile platforms.)

I *just* figured out the Local Storage stuff myself. (So I'm NOT the right guy to comment on someone else's .capx) But what is the general issue you're having?

I like to organize my code into groups that I can turn on and off as needed. This may not be helpful at all, but here's how I handled Local Storage:

[START GROUP]On start of layout:
     get item "player"
     get item "score"
     get item "sound"
     Set group "START GROUP" Deactivated
     Set group "GET VALUES" Activated

[GET VALUES]
On item "player" get
     System -> Set item global_player to localstorage.itemvalue
On item "score" get
     System -> Set item global_score to localstorage.itemvalue
On item "sound" get
     System -> Set item global_sound to localstorage.itemvalue
On All Gets Complete
     Set Group "GET VALUES" Deactivated
[/code:39omiwki]
Good luck with your project!

Thanks 99instances2go, I appreciate the help -- but I've never had any issues sorting my array. I only need to sort by the "score" and it's as simple as "sort x". Works perfectly.

Oh, and thanks for the help with "push", blackhornet. With your help I got my app working last night. It has taken me almost a month (for something I thought I could do in a weekend), but it's almost finished now.

Most of my Flashcard app was super simple to make using C2, but I struggled with array handling, loading/saving data, the dictionary object, and local storage. The next project should go a LOT smoother.

Thanks, blackhornet. I tried using push last night and failed. Came online to learn more and saw some posts that said its not really for multidimensional arrays, so I gave up on the idea. Will look at it some more tonight, but if anyone has any advice...

I have an array with a width of 440 and a height of 5. It looks like this:

[score, text1, text2, category, id]

For my app I need to sort the array by score but also filter it by whichever category the user chooses. To accomplish this I created another array and set it to have the same dimensions. Then I iterate through the array that has my data and copy ONLY the rows that match the chosen category into the new array. That part works great.

Unfortunately, since both arrays have the same dimensions, my new filtered array isn't as big and so has a bunch of "0,0,0,0" lines at the end.

How do I fix this? I suppose I could set all the "0" scores to a really high number so they would get sorted to the bottom, but there has to be a more elegant solution. Can I search through and delete the "0,0,0,0" rows?

Not sure if it will be useful but here's a picture of my function:

NOTE: On 'Start of layout' I load all my data into "array2" and this function copies everything that matches category "x" into the original array ("array")