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  • 29 Oct, 2011
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  I'm not committing to anything just yet, I'm just talking about my ideas. For example, if HTML5 performance gets good enough that an EXE exporter can only get a 10% performance edge, then an EXE wrapper around the HTML5 runtime should be perfectly adequate (possibly with a plugin to access Steam API features). Writing a new exporter is a massive amount of work which will tie us up for months and require a lot of continuous maintenance work, which is a difficult decision when you're a small team with limited resources. So the EXE exporter would have to be significantly better to justify the effort, which is why if it's at all possible I'd prefer to recycle the HTML5 engine.

  Still, I think it's unlikely HTML5 will get that fast - I do think an EXE exporter for super-hi-performance games would still be a good feature.

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  • 29 Oct, 2011
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  Set the 'default controls' property to 'no' then use events to call the 'simulate control' action. E.g.: On spacebar pressed - simulate control 'jump'.

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  We don't have a plan extending as far as a year, so I just can't say.

  However, if WebGL becomes widely supported and the Web Apps standard keeps progressing, I'm wondering if we'll need an EXE exporter at all. If C2 games are running with a hardware accelerated WebGL view complete with shaders, using javascript engines that are compiled to machine code and using the new Web Audio API for reliable audio with effects... what need is there for an EXE exporter?

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  • 29 Oct, 2011
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  We've had users report this three or four times in the past and it was always fixed by updating graphics card drivers.

  It might be worth emailing your PC's support or getting in touch with the video card maker. As far as I can tell, it's because their graphics card is buggy! I don't think there's much we can do about that, it's up to them.

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  Hmm, seems to be working fine here. I'll review the code at some point.

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  We've had reports of this before, and generally it's a sign you have buggy or out of date video drivers. Have you tried updating your graphics card driver?

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  Were the audio files in the exported directory?

  Browsers have fairly poor audio support at the moment - many crash or have cut-outs. I think it might have been a problem with the browser.

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  • 29 Oct, 2011
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  From How to make native phone apps with Construct 2 and PhoneGap:

  ur preliminary testing has shown the following:

  - Audio does not yet work on most devices. Further, audio can reduce performance, even though it's not playing. You might want to remove the Audio object and delete all your audio files before exporting to PhoneGap.

  Hopefully this is something we can improve in future.

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  • 29 Oct, 2011
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  Ah, if your internet is down it might wait up to 10 seconds then fall back to a local copy of jQuery.

  Hope things sort out soon :-\</p>

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  Yes it should. Maybe it's not redrawing. If you click to select the event does a strikethrough appear?

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  • 28 Oct, 2011
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  I use Chrome as my main testing browser - I'm on Chrome 15 now - and everything seems to be working just fine! What version of Chrome are you on? Does it work with any other browsers (e.g. Firefox 7 or IE9)?

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  • 28 Oct, 2011
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  Same, seems to work fine - are you right-clicking the margin to the left of the event to disable the entire event? If not you'll only be disabling individual conditions and actions.