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  Julmust - you might be interested in the Pin behavior which can connect objects in the way you describe.

  The main difference between families and containers is if you have two big bosses made from lots of objects. Using families, some events might affect both bosses when you only want to affect one. Using containers everything works like it should.

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  Are you sure the HTML5 version does not also do the same thing? Chrome Web Store apps are almost identical to simply viewing the web page in Chrome. I don't believe it actually does much different to the ordinary Chrome browser once in the store. Also, since all our javascript code is identical both in HTML5 and on the Chrome Web Store, it may be an issue with Chrome - I don't know what we could change given our code is identical in both places.

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  In other words, it's possible, but a lot of effort - you'd probably need to code your own plugins and serverside.

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  Can you come up with an exact sequence of steps given a new project that reproduces the problem every time, as described in how to report bugs? It is often difficult to resolve issues without this.

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  The best description of containers is currently in the r110.2 release notes. (The manual will be updated at the next stable release.)

  Containers and families are different and used for different purposes. Putting objects in a family won't pick the associated instances from other objects in the family - it just allows you to make events that apply to lots of objects at once (e.g. you can make events for "Enemies" rather than for each individual sprite). Containers on the other hand are for making "composite objects", or objects made out of lots of smaller sprites (such as a turret and tank base making a single tank). Once in a container, picking the base also picks the turret, and vice versa.

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  You might want to contact Google about this - I'm not sure it's related to what Construct 2 does.

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  Please make a thread in the Bugs forum with a repro .capx made from scratch if you think it's a bug, otherwise I probably won't investigate this on my next bug run.

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  xyboox - it's a limitation in the Android browser, there's nothing we can do to fix it. Newer versions of Android fix it, I believe.

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  Closing since this is currently by design - functions do not use the SOL from the calling event.

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  cow_trix - closing this thread since the original posted bug appears to be fixed, post a new report if you can make a repro .capx.

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  Closing as not a bug, you have an event to disable the spray on start of layout. This will only affect continuous mode.

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  Closing

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  Are you sure this is due to collision testing? The new code only runs if you use an 'Is overlapping' or 'On collision' event with two objects that are on different layers with different parallax, scale or angle.

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  • 22 Nov, 2012
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  Could you get away with just creating a large array?

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  • 22 Nov, 2012
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  Yann - very nice :) Glad it's all working now!