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  • 19 Sep, 2013
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  Closing as not a bug. The event sheet with the collision events is not included on the layout's event sheet.

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  • 19 Sep, 2013
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  We've had identical reports in the past and it's always been graphics driver crashes. Double-check your drivers are up to date. If there are no updates available and you have old hardware, your vendor may have screwed you leaving you with broken drivers, and your only course of action may be to get a new graphics card.

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  • 18 Sep, 2013
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  I think the OP is good advice. Basically, it's fine to ask occasional questions. But if you rely exclusively on asking questions and being told the answer to get things done, that will actually hinder you in the long run, compared to spending some time learning how the basic mechanics of C2 work.

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  • 18 Sep, 2013
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  This should have been fixed in r144.2.

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  • 18 Sep, 2013
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  It's just for the editor. When you export it again, it will recombine them in to memory-efficient sprite sheets amongst other optimisations.

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  • 17 Sep, 2013
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  Can you post a new example which is as simple as possible and has the correct instructions in the .capx? I want to make sure I'm not misunderstanding. It really is a lot more convenient if you can post the .capx here as well.

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  • 17 Sep, 2013
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  This is actually by design. Within the scope of a local variable, triggers act like function calls; for each depth of the function call, local variables hold unique state (like with recursive functions in traditional programming languages).

  So when 'On start of layout' fires, 'Health' has the value 0. Then you call the "SetHealth" function. Because a new trigger is firing within another trigger, it actually becomes a new unique value. Think of it as 'Health2' at this point. You set 'Health2' to 100, then the function returns. 'Health2' scopes out since the function call has ended, then it returns to continue execution in 'Start of layout'. This returns to using 'Health', which was not actually modified, so is still 0.

  Workaround: make it a static variable.

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  • 17 Sep, 2013
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  Can't reproduce. Works from both your link and the Scirra server at http://www.scirra.com/labs/wstest/.

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  • 17 Sep, 2013
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  Were you using r144? It's known not to work. r144.2 should work.

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  • 17 Sep, 2013
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  It's because the node-webkit exporter includes the complete Chromium browser engine. One of the advantages of publishing as a HTML5 website is players can use their existing browser, making the game a really small download.

  Steam regularly delivers games in the gigabytes, and if you make a large game 17mb is probably small compared to the size of the rest of the assets (music, sound, graphics, etc.)

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  • 17 Sep, 2013
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  It would be best to ask Ludei. We already support their controller API, so if they hook up support for iOS 7 game controllers, it should work with C2 straight away.

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  • 17 Sep, 2013
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  There are existing keyboard shortcuts for this: F2 and Shift+F2.

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  • 17 Sep, 2013
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  It's already been added. Check the latest beta.

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  • 17 Sep, 2013
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  I've added a DevicePixelRatio expression for the next build. But I'm not sure you really need to take it in to account for display. Usually letterbox scale just takes care of everything. For example, an iPad 3 (2048x1536) has twice the screen width and height of the iPad 2 (1024x768) in the same space, i.e. double the pixel density. But letterbox scale just stretches to fill and everything appears at exactly the same size. So there's no need to take in to account PPI for that.

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  • 16 Sep, 2013
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  tumira - form controls have never been supported in CocoonJS.