Ashley's Forum Posts

  • You can also use Cut/Copy/Paste if you right-click a layout in the Project Bar.

  • Make sure a layout in the project has the event sheet associated. If you have no event sheets and you add one, it won't be associated with anything so those events won't run until to attach it to a layout.

    You can call in to events from JavaScript and from JavaScript to events, so you should be able to set up everything you need using both.

  • If you get forcibly disconnected, e.g. by pulling out your network cable, the signalling server will timeout the previous login after a while. That'll still happen if you use the wrong events, too - after a while it should timeout the previous user and start working again. In the meantime you should still be able to log in to a different room with a different name, because that counts as a different user, not two cases of the same user. Although off the top of my head I think there are some different flows at work here so it may depend on exactly what you're trying to do. If you think something is broken despite the fact your events are correct, as ever please file an issue following all the guidelines.

    In my experience any time you try to write software that second-guesses what you're trying to do - such as silently and automatically waiting for prior operations to complete before disconnecting when you told it to disconnect immediately - you create as many problems as you solve. For example someone else will be using that action intentionally to disconnect and cancel any existing operations. Perhaps it's a way to bail out if something is taking too long and you want to timeout and return to the main screen. If disconnecting is changed to wait for existing operations to complete, you break that process, and whoever was relying on that will complain and file a bug and ask for it to be changed back. In short Construct provides the tools and it will do what you tell it, and it's up to you to make sure you tell it to do reasonable things.

  • For the record, I responded here. Please do try to follow the bug report guidelines otherwise all we have is guesswork.

  • This is a common mistake. Leaving a room is an asynchronous process and takes a moment to complete, triggering "On left room" when it's done. However if you disconnect from the signalling server at the same time, the connection drops and so the leaving room process cannot be completed. This leaves the game in an inconsistent state: the signalling server still thinks you're in the room because you never finished leaving, but the game doesn't think you're in the room, and so if you try to rejoin you're effectively joining twice and so the signalling server returns an error.

    It's one of many reasons multiplayer logic is difficult. You have to have both the remote and local systems in sync, and if your logic gets them out of sync, things go wrong.

  • The performance of modern devices is excellent. If you shared a project file I could take a look in case there is anything that could be optimised. However I noticed you mentioned BlueStacks, which appears to be an emulator. Emulators often have poor performance as they often have limitations like using software rendering instead of GPU acceleration. So you should test on a real device to know how performance will really work.

  • It means the browser you are using does not support playing the format of that sound.

  • The error looks like it's caused by a third-party addon.

    You can clear storage in NW.js either by using the browser developer tools (F12) or by deleting the folder C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\construct3.

  • I don't think there's any reason to call an entire event sheet. Instead use runtime.callFunction() to call a function block in an event sheet.

  • I'd also point out I suspect GameMaker has something like at least 5x more staff working on it, and the backing of a billion-dollar company. I'm sure we could do an awful lot more if we had the same level of resources - but even though we're a small operation by comparison, I think is a big achievement on our part that people even feel it is fair to compare the two, and that there are even some big advantages to Construct that we can highlight.

  • I've wondered before why this could be the case given that Construct has been around for over a decade

    I'd point out that a decade ago, it was literally just me coding on a laptop in my bedroom. We've come a long, long way, and I'm optimistic that as we keep growing, we'll keep going even further.

  • It sounds like it might be a bug, but it's difficult to help without more information. Please file an issue following all the guidelines so we can help.

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  • Unfortunately I don't think the steamdb.info numbers for Construct are meaningful - their detection may well be failing to identify most Construct games. In this issue I pointed out how they can reliably detect Construct games, but it seems for technical reasons they can't implement that.

  • I tried this and it does reproduce for me too actually - it must be some Cordova bug as the documentation says the default content src is already "index.html", so adding it only re-applies the default. I guess the default got changed accidentally.

    I've added the content tag for the next release to fix Cordova project exports. I've also patched the build server to add that tag when using cordova-android@10+, which means it should be fixed already in r261, since builds will now add the necessary tag on the server side.

  • This should be fixed in r261, by the way.