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  I wouldn't use replace()! replace("100310031003", "1003", "") will result in an empty string, when you just want to remove the first four characters. I'd use right(str, len(str) - 4).

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  I agree with Mipey, often strings are more readable and just as with the OP there is no performance gain to be had by using numbers instead.

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  DirectCanvas and CocoonJS both effectively do this already. There's no reason Cocos2d would be faster. What's to be gained by using Cocos2d?

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  Looking great!

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  • 11 Nov, 2012
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  Have you tried setting silent mode on?

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  If the group is active append text "active", else append "not active".

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  Sounds strange, can you share your .capx?

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  DravenX - is there any exact sequence of steps that reproduces a crash every time?

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  Please see how to report bugs, we typically require more information than this to be able to investigate an issue.

  Are you using a loader layout and the problem is it is not firing 'on loaded' or something similar? Dropbox typically have a very low capped transfer rate so games will load slowly, so it's not the ideal host to test how quickly things load. You should try get your own server set up.

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  'Set color' does this, but like other shaders requires WebGL. It's best to just do this in an external image editor and switch the animation frame rather than use the shader, if you don't need to dynamically alter it - that way doesn't require WebGL and renders faster too.

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  Last I heard about smart TVs, the typical hardware was weaker than an iPhone and had no GPU, which means you get software rendering and hardware acceleration is impossible. You'd have been lucky to get 10 FPS. I guess this is slowly changing, but I think the best thing to do is have someone try this out themselves, and report back if it works well or not. I suppose you need the right TV and such as well.

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  This is a very common type of question, and we've answered it in detail with our blog post Optimisation: don't waste your time.

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  AddVariadicParams is currently a hack specifically designed for the built-in Function object, and has a bunch of fairly obscure limitations that the Function object does not happen to run in to. I wouldn't recommend using it if possible for the time being - what are you hoping to use it for?

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  DravenX - it's difficult to do anything about the problem without steps to reliably reproduce it. Can you provide these?

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  Closing as not a bug.