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  • 21 Dec, 2012
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  I can't reproduce this on my dual-monitor Windows 8 system, which allows me to move the two very far apart. Are you sure it's not an issue with your VM? Can you reproduce the issue on other Windows computers?

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  • 21 Dec, 2012
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  Closing, please see how to report bugs and attach a .capx reproducing the problem if you believe this is a bug. It's impossible for us to reproduce your events because you have not defined what "rnd" is, and it may be critically related to the issue.

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  • 21 Dec, 2012
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  ChromeGadget: WebStorage already saves to the user's disk, it does not use a server. See WebStorage in the manual

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  • 21 Dec, 2012
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  You should simply style c2canvasdiv - don't add any divs inside it, or style the canvas directly.

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  • 21 Dec, 2012
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  The best solution in this case is for Construct 2 to download images layout-by-layout, and not try to hack the same thing in using 'load image from URL'. (C2 already loads textures in to memory layout-by-layout, but it still downloads them all on startup.) This is on our todo list, but I can't give an ETA.

  For some users with good broadband connections, even a 400MB game won't take that long to load - if you're maxing out a good connection, it will only take a couple of minutes (which you can pass more easily using a custom loader layout). They'd have to wait equally as long, and without your own loading screen, if they downloaded a native app.

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  • 21 Dec, 2012
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  You are probably creating separate object types when really you want to create new instances of the same object type. See objects in the manual to learn more about the difference.

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  • 21 Dec, 2012
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  I've thought a lot about this but it would require a significant overhaul of the expressions system to be able to support it. It's a large amount of work and likely to be very difficult to get right, so I don't think it's something we'd take up immediately. But perhaps in the long term.

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  • 21 Dec, 2012
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  This has already been on our todo list a while... hopefully we'll get round to it eventually.

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  • 20 Dec, 2012
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  Gez - I tested it on my Android phone and it doesn't get stuck in the background, it simply exits when I press the Home button and never pauses and resumes. I'm not sure if it's a PhoneGap bug, it's hard to tell - I'm in touch with PhoneGap about it.

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  • 20 Dec, 2012
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  Closing, this should be working in r113.

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  Closing as not a bug, project is working correctly for the given events.

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  • 20 Dec, 2012
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  Oops, you're right - should be fixed for the next build. (Some help links appear when you right click in that dialog.)

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  • 20 Dec, 2012
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  Closing as not a bug: touch IDs are not guaranteed to start from 0. For example, on iOS the first touch has an ID well over a million (probably because it uses a system-wide counter for touch IDs). You need to receive a touch event and store its ID before you can use these expressions sensibly.

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  • 20 Dec, 2012
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  What's wrong with having your images in the project? Construct 2 does some very sophisticated work with image compression on export, such as automatic spritesheeting, color counting and PNG recompression. If you have external images you miss out on getting all that for free, so it seems it'd be better just to include them in your project.

  lemo - you might want to take a look at the plugin SDK for that type of thing, it seems a little niche to include in the core engine.

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  • 20 Dec, 2012
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  It's not necessary for RTS games, you can do infinite scroll just by detecting the mouse at the edge of the window. I'm not sure it's useful outside of 3D games, so I hadn't planned to support it.