Desktop App

Are there any plans to make a desktop app?

So many difficulties with this browser version

It is lugging, got to press several times the preview button to start the preview, neverending notifications from the browser, always asking to update, even when there is a checkbox not ask about beta updates.

NW.js is also a browser, isn't it?

Create a new user profile in microsoft edge with no addon, and Install construct as an App on that user, It feel like desktop app for me.

Edge is the same chrome. It eats less ram but more battery power. Also, I'm getting errors while opening C3 in chrome

Use the "Install as app" option in Construct and you can install it locally where it works just like a desktop app.

I would advise against using the NW.js app - it's only really actually useful if you need to regularly test features of the NW.js plugin. If you don't need to do that, it's the same as you'd get in the browser, but browsers tend to be better tested.

Construct works offline - you have to make sure you wait for the "ready to use offline" message though, otherwise it's not finished saving for offline use.

I just opened the editor in a Chrome tab and opened the Ghost Shooter example project, and after a while the memory usage according to Chrome's task manager settled on about 120mb. That seems perfectly reasonable to me. If other tabs or browser extensions use lots of memory, that's not due to Construct.

Yes, it works. But if you updated it later(through popup) message, and changed your game in the newer version, you will need to update it every time when you open the app.

And i really do not know how to delete and download the C3 again. And I assume if I will do it, will need to update again all plugins, set up UI etc.

About memory issues, yes, it is because I'm opening other tabs too, it is part of my work. And it is chrome issues. But I'm telling you about it, bad chrome memory handling makes issues in the C3 too.

You can see here how long scenes are loading youtu.be/biwDXyb1JBA it is happening very often, every time when chrome goes out of memory or something like this, it is not super critical but just annoying because im doing this operation thousands of times per day.

Those scenes take a moment to load because our own code discards them when you're not looking at them... to save memory! It's nothing to do with Chrome. And if you have a bunch of other tabs open using memory, I don't see how that has anything to do with Construct. If you have them open while you work, then even if we made a native app, presumably you'd still have those other tabs open?

Whenever anyone says "I don't like using Construct in the browser" I always ask these questions to try to figure out what the real problem is, since if there is some real problem, we can try to fix it. But I can never seem to work out what any real problem might be. Which is part of the reason I still think it's absolutely fine - in fact great - to have browser-based software.

Construct works offline - you have to make sure you wait for the "ready to use offline" message though, otherwise it's not finished saving for offline use.

I just opened the editor in a Chrome tab and opened the Ghost Shooter example project, and after a while the memory usage according to Chrome's task manager settled on about 120mb. That seems perfectly reasonable to me. If other tabs or browser extensions use lots of memory, that's not due to Construct.

I must be doing something wrong here because I can't use Construct offline. I can even open the app and load an existing project, but the preview doesn't work, and I can't create new projects.