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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 19 Jul, 2021
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  Well, since you posted this in the scripting forum, the solution would be to access local storage via the localStorage browser API.

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  • 16 Jul, 2021
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  Firefox doesn't support installing web apps at the moment. Chrome and Edge can though.

• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 15 Jul, 2021
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  See Icons & Splash in the manual.

• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 14 Jul, 2021
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  This error is exactly why you need a web server.

  If you want to run a game on a local desktop system offline, then the best alternative is one of the desktop exports (e.g. Windows WebView2).

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  • 14 Jul, 2021
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  I just did a debug APK build and it worked fine. So I can't see that anything's wrong with the build server here.

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  • 13 Jul, 2021
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  Check the filename you're fetching really is correct. Some devices also have case-sensitive filenames, and you mix the case of the file extension (.json/.JSON), so try making it matches exactly and case-sensitively. Just use lowercase for everything is the easiest approach.

• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 12 Jul, 2021
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  Scaling up in Construct by resizing the object is much better. If you resize the actual image to be larger, it will needlessly waste memory.

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  • 12 Jul, 2021
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  Again, ToBeautifiedString already calls JSON.Stringify internally, and then you are still calling JSON.Stringify a second time via scripting. It's definitely wrong to stringify twice, you should only do it once, and if that doesn't work for some reason, figure out why and solve that problem instead.

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  • 12 Jul, 2021
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  Just make a function that sets the values of the global variables you want to change. Don't overcomplicate it!

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  • 9 Jul, 2021
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  You don't need to escape anything from the JSON_Put object in this case. You're just passing strings around.

  The JSON ToBeautifiedString expression already stringifies the JSON. You shouldn't try to stringify it a second time.

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  • 7 Jul, 2021
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  This is by design - it will be triggering 'On resolution changed' for you to redraw the content at a new resolution. See the manual entry.

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 7 Jul, 2021
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  The only changes were to update the retirement notice, update some help links to point at construct.net instead of scirra.com, and bump the Android target API level.

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  • 7 Jul, 2021
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  See this thread for Mobile Advert changes in r254.

• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 6 Jul, 2021
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  Construct's memory management relies on identifying which instances are placed in layouts. So it's better to place all instances that may be used on the layout, and destroy them in 'On start of layout' if they're not needed immediately. Then Construct will pre-load all the images for them when starting the layout. If you don't place anything in the layout and only create them in events, it can jank the game as it has to load images on-the-fly.

• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 6 Jul, 2021
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  Suggestions are best posted to the suggestion platform, which exists in part because suggestions posted only to the forum are easily lost.