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  • 30 Oct, 2013
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  As the front page says, all updates to Construct 2 are free. This lasts indefinitely and no subscription is necessary.

  If we ever released Construct 3, it would probably need a new license - but we have no plans to do that right now, for the forseeable future we are going to keep updating Construct 2.

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  tumira - it's a Firefox bug. I think it's covered by the bug report I already filed. We'll have to wait for them to fix it.

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  Maybe try turning the WebGL setting on or off? It's hard to say - it sounds like a problem with CocoonJS, so I think you'll have to talk to Ludei about it.

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  • 29 Oct, 2013
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  Did you look in the debug console? Were there any messages or errors?

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  Unfortunately in my testing it's buggy and incomplete. I filed a bug report here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=932400

  It's good progress though - by Firefox 28 it seems OK-ish, and hopefully soon after that it'll be as good as Chrome's.

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  The most sensible thing to do IMO is to create an object then immediately set all its properties with actions. I don't see any reason for the engine to pick one template instance over another, unless we implement a special "prototype" instance.

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  We have vague plans for broader modularity features in the long-term, but they'd go a lot further than just an event sheet hidden away behind an object. So maybe we'll address this eventually anyway.

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  Near the top of preview.js the retina mode is determined like so:

  this.isRetina = (!this.isDomFree && this.useHighDpi && !this.isAndroidStockBrowser);

  Remove the isDomFree check from that (and possibly the android stock browser check - I don't know what Ejecta's user agent string will detect as) and it will enable the code that you described, which is how we get high-DPI in browsers.

  Then in runtime.setSize it still uses jQuery to set the CSS size (there's no real reason for it, it's just old code). Replace that with the canvas.style.width... assignments and hopefully that will work.

  I think CocoonJS does this simply by having a devicePixelRatio of 1 and reporting the real physical pixel counts for the window innerWidth/innerHeight. That's a nice and simple way of doing it which perhaps Ejecta could support as an alternative mode.

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  • 29 Oct, 2013
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  This is why it is essential to test on mobile from the very start. If you had tested regularly while developing your project, you'd probably know roughly what thing it is that causes the framerate drop.

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  I think this is on our todo list. I'll see what we can do, but it might be pretty complicated - some of the exporters have lots of configuration settings, and they're not stored inside the .capx file so they need to be specified each time.

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  Maybe it would be best to talk to Mozilla about this.

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  I always thought being able to add sheets to individual objects would just make it worse. Instead of going through a simple event sheet list you now have to remember which object you put those events in. It could make all your events even more scattered and unclear. Do you really think it would genuinely help?

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  • 28 Oct, 2013
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  See How Construct 2 licenses work. There is no separate download for the personal edition: just add your license to the free edition and it automatically becomes licensed.