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New 'Paste' option, new preview mode, and lots of bug fixes.
20 April, 2017 ()
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Notes
As usual there's a batch of bug fixes, changes and this time a bit of work on startup performance too. However there's a couple of additions worth highlighting:
Paste menu options are back. However, this uses a "fake clipboard", because Javascript can't actually cause a paste to happen. Basically if you use the Ctrl+V shortcut or choose "Paste" from the browser menu, a real paste happens. But when you choose 'Paste' from a menu in C3, it just uses the last thing you copied in that window. This allows for more intuitive use of copy-paste, especially on form factors without a keyboard. But be aware that you can't use the menu option to do things like paste between different copies of C3 - only things you copied in the same editor.
There's also a new browser tab preview mode available in Settings. This always opens a full browser tab when you click Preview, even when run from the desktop without the usual browser UI. One reason this may be useful is to then open Chrome's dev tools and access features like Device Mode which are only available in tabbed browsing mode.
As before we're still getting lots of great feedback and working hard to keep improving Construct 3. We'll have more updates soon!
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Launch r20
New Additions
'Paste' menu options in the Layout View and Event Sheet View, using an in-memory clipboard instead of the real clipboard.
Project Bar: added back the 'Clone' option for object types that C2 had.
New 'Browser tab' preview mode. This uses a standard browser tab instead of a popup window.
Warning message indicating the source image of a tilemap is not being shown due to tilemap instance properties misconfiguration
Changes
Mobile: fullscreen menus no longer group items horizontally, since it could cause unwanted horizontal scrolling of the menu
Runtime: middle-click no longer switches to browser pan scroll cursor
Browser plugin: 'Go to URL' action now opens a new window in preview mode, since C3 does not support changing the preview window URL
Bug Fixes
Crash in parameters dialog trying to type a behavior expression for an object that doesn't support behaviors
Crash pasting events to a different project when instance variables were missing
Reloading an existing preview window could cause the existing window to close
Adding a new object type via the Project Bar no longer switches to a crosshair cursor if there is not a Layout View visible
Event sheet view: events could be dragged outside of the scope of local variables they referenced. This now shows an error.
Crash when closing a project after duplicating a layout
Possible crash when loading a project
Crash when importing image file by dropping it into the animations panel
Crashes in the Tilemap Bar when the source image is not shown as a result of instance properties being misconfigured.
Performance Improvements
Adjustments to startup scheduling to try to make sure the start page loads more quickly
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