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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 6 Sep, 2012
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  We will eventually add support for this, but it's missing for now, so you can use external tools like Resource Hacker.

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  A quirk of the 'snapshot' action is the game has to redraw before it can take the snapshot. When nothing is moving on-screen like in your example, it is never redrawing, so a snapshot is never taken.

  A quick workaround is to put a text object offscreen and every tick set it to tickcount. That will force the game to redraw every tick and make snapshots work correctly.

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  I think it is very unlikely. The DS does not support HTML5.

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  nutmix - disabling the group of events that handles input is a really easy way to do that.

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  Moved to Bugs forum. Please see how to report bugs. We need your .capx, and we need to know about any browser errors and a link to your game to check it out ourselves. It's also worth checking if it still happens in r101 beta, and if removing third party plugins fixes it.

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  You should design everything on one layout. It's perfectly possible to have one layout handle both orientations.

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  • 5 Sep, 2012
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  I tested Chrome 21 and pulled out the LAN cable that the internet comes through and it triggered the event fine. Not sure why it wouldn't be for you - maybe a Chrome bug or something different about your setup... not sure there's a C2 bug here anyway.

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  See How Construct 2 licenses work for more information.

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  'Set canvas size' ought to do the trick, since it changes the WindowWidth and WindowHeight expression as well - what is it not doing that it ought to?

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  AJAX simply works differently on CocoonJS and directCanvas, and we haven't got round to porting the AJAX object to support the subset these platforms provide. We'll try get it sorted soon!

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  • 5 Sep, 2012
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  Thanks for the post!

  We do have to fight a certain amount of stereotype around "web games are slow". Previous slow web technologies (like Flash in its software rendered days) have probably caused this, but check our past blog entries about performance - Construct 2's WebGL renderer can get 14,000 sprites on-screen in one of our tests, which is comparable to a native renderer. I'm not sure what more we could be doing to spread the message!

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  Since WebGL can't directly draw text, it actually renders to an offscreen canvas 2D then copies the result to the display. So in theory it should look identical, because both renderers draw text the same way. Of course, reality isn't always the same as theory :) Because WebGL treats text as a texture, text rendering is affected by the sampling and pixel rounding properties, which it isn't in canvas 2D. Do those settings affect it? Also a .capx example would help me investigate.

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  On a well-implemented hardware accelerated renderer they are probably identical. I think Optimisation: don't waste your time applies.

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  — - performance should not have changed significantly recently, what kind of difference are you seeing? Still, Ludei apparently have an update coming soon which might improve performance, they are still actively working on their tech so it's still worth letting them know about potential issues.

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  This has been requested a lot in the past. We're aware of the need, but it is an extremely complicated feature to add. Maybe some time in the long term future we could consider a feature like this, but I'm afraid we have so much on our plates right now it's unlikely to come soon.