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  • 19 Dec, 2013
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  For efficiency the engine does not hold on to layer render targets after the layer has finished rendering - it then copies it directly to the destination and subsequent layers are rendered either directly to the destination or on to the same single layer render target. That means you can't currently have a sampler for each layer. It would require engine-level changes to make this possible, and we don't really want to do that since it could seriously degrade performance on mobile.

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  • 19 Dec, 2013
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  sasivarnan - what version of Windows are you using and what kind of graphics card do you have?

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  • 19 Dec, 2013
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  Baffling and disappointing. There is nothing specific about our engine about memory management. It's just about how they load ordinary Javascript Image objects, which they currently do incredibly inefficiently, and if they did it like a real browser it would be fine. I am at a loss as to why they are so insistent about this.

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  • 18 Dec, 2013
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  Isn't supporting a range of resolutions with the same aspect ratio just the same as "letterbox scale" mode?

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  • 18 Dec, 2013
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  That's not to do with this topic. It's just Apple's 'home screen' browser engine is slower than Safari.

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  • 18 Dec, 2013
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  Can't reproduce on Windows 8, works just fine in both Firefox 26 and Nightly. Can you reproduce on any other computers?

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  • 17 Dec, 2013
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  Those files definitely don't come from Construct 2. They are probably dependencies of a third party plugin.

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  • 17 Dec, 2013
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  No - 'trigger once' ignores instances completely, because it's a system condition.

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  • 17 Dec, 2013
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  Closing as won't fix. You used a textbox object, not a text object, which is a HTML form control. Form controls actually float above the canvas and are not part of it so won't be snapshotted, and we can't really fix this. If you use ordinary Text objects though, it works fine.

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  • 17 Dec, 2013
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  There is nothing we can do without a .capx. We actually strongly recommend making minimal reproduction .capx projects from scratch. It is far more helpful for debugging and you don't have to share your whole project. Closing.

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  • 17 Dec, 2013
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  Are you sure you can't just do that by adding extra conditions to the collision events to filter out unwanted instances?

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  • 17 Dec, 2013
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  It looks like you manually edited it and broke it. The HTML file references jQuery 1.7.1, which Construct 2 hasn't exported for a long time now.

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  • 17 Dec, 2013
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  Yes, it's a perfectly logical consequence. Look carefully at the order of your events and remember triggers fire in top-to-bottom order.

  Subevents are great for this kind of thing - you really should only have one trigger for each key and a bunch of subevents using "else". Not only will it read more clearly, but you'll avoid this problem!

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  • 17 Dec, 2013
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  Well, perhaps I meant to define it in terms of what it does: it makes events that are true for several ticks only run on the first tick they're true. I don't think it's clear what it ought to do when in a subevent to a loop, since the definition of "true for several ticks" no longer really makes any sense. So I'm happy to leave it doing whatever it happens to do with the current implementation.