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  • WordPress is categorically the most powerful CMS, it sounds like what you want is a WYSIWYG editor that sits on top of WordPress; there are literally hundreds to choose from, but the popular ones are:

    Themify

    Enfold

    Divi

    BeaverBuilder

    If you know PHP/HTML/CSS, building your own theme will be better. However there are quasi WYSIWYG editors that are more code focused like Pinegrow and Oxygen.

  • If we had to choose a CSS analogue, Grid would be far more preferable than Flexbox

  • > Couldn't you do this mapping in events? Kinda of how you map strings to function you can map dom element events to c3 functions. You would just need a bit more information such as the element ID and the event you want to map?

    How would you access event parameters like the button or key that was clicked/pressed? I wouldn't want to have to try to cover every kind of possible event and event parameter that exists in JS, that's a lot of work just reimplementing what JavaScript already does.

    Isn't that the whole point of the event system though? To reimplement what you can do in conventional coding?

  • If we were to move away from direct integration the DOM, Construct has some pretty powerful layout tools.

    You can use the anchor and pin behaviours to simulate percentage based layouts; hell you can even recreate media queries with layout expressions.

    Thinking about it from a building block perspective, I guess some kind of grid object so you can assign objects/data to cells? It's hard for me to scope it without simply reciting the CSS grid spec - named areas, flow direction, gutter and track control.

  • It comes down to what you believe Construct to be. It's marketed as a game engine, but I wholeheartedly believe that it's a web engine that's been focused on games.

    By no means should Construct become a "website builder", a handful of users often try and make websites and that is a fundamentally bad idea (however please show your support for better customisation of export HTML if this interests you).

    Interactive web experiences are the future, and with the entry point to standard web development getting lower every year, being able to make advanced experiences that go beyond the norm will be the must have thing for businesses to stand out.

    This website (http://www.rleonardi.com/interactive-resume/) must be 10 years old at this point, and it is repeatedly referenced as a highly creative web page. To recreate this in Construct would be laughably trivial.

    ...Wow, this went off on a wild tangent...

    To bring it back to reality, please let us have good support for making something as simple as a sta table or leaderboard in our games.

  • For years a small core of users have been pushing for greater DOM control via Construct - the web alredy has data presentation languages, they're called HTML and CSS. Where Construct embraces the web in every aspect (from the hosting of the IDE to the literal backbone of the engine) these two aspects remain locked off.

    Deeper integration with this fundamental web technology is my literal dream for Construct. We've got Scripting, last beta we got better support for CSS - I would love for Construct to break free of the canvas and iframe approach and embrace real DOM manipulation.

  • Browser.QueryParam("location") won't get you anything if the URL doesn't have a location query - for example

    example.com?location=this

    Browser.QueryParam("location") would return "this"

    For

    example.com?anythingelse=this

    Browser.QueryParam("location") would return nothing

    What you want is the URL of the page you're on, which as detailed in previous messages, isn't actually returned by the browser.url expression

  • Why would you want to do that? The frame control options are better for that and more secure.

    Mainly sniffing out UTM variables - and what I'd argue is a point of confusion in that Browser.URL is described as returning the URL of the window:

    Get the complete current URL in the browser address bar, including the protocol.

    Which it doesn't do?

    EDIT//

    Just realised queryParam would work much better for UTM, however I think the description of Browser.URL could be clearer

  • I think you might want to take a look at the section "controlling framing" in the tutorial Publishing to the web.

    Ashley Is there any way of using the browser object to return the current page URL? I swear this used to be possible, however an iframed game will now return the frame source URL when you use Browser.URL

    With scripting, admittedly this is now much easier to get the top/parent URL, I was just wondering if I've misremembered how Browser.URL works

  • You won't be able to hide the URL path from an iframe/inspect element - that's simply not how the internet works.

    What you might (and definitely used to be able to) do is use the browser object (it's a a default object in Construct) to look at the current page URL, and based on this, you can execute events. For example you could have it so that if a user was to extract the path from the iframe, if they visited it directly, the game would load a blank screen instead.

    This is how you typically protect your game from being show on different websites.

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