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  • 21 Nov, 2019
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  Icons are also used when using the browser "install" feature (for Progressive Web Apps, and all exported web projects are PWAs). E.g. this lets you create a desktop shortcut to a web game, and it uses the icons for the shortcut.

  Some (but not all) exporters also look at the icons and use them as the app icon where possible.

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  With the most recent versions of chrome allowing local files, could we just write scripts in our editor of choice?

  Yes, you could save as a folder project and then edit the project's .js files in a different editor.

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  Yeah, you don't need reflection in to the property list for that - you can already read property values, get callbacks when they change, and set initial values in OnCreate() or OnPlacedInLayout().

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  • 21 Nov, 2019
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  You can embed YouTube videos with the iframe plugin.

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  It's not supported because nothing in Construct needs it. What do you need it for?

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  It's normal that mobile devices warm up when they are doing intensive processing, and most games are intensive since they run both the CPU and GPU constantly.

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  As far as I can tell it's not technically feasible right now, with or without streaming. In fact it's possible using complex streaming technology actually makes it even less feasible, not more. To me "solve it with streaming" sounds too much like "solve it with magic".

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  • 20 Nov, 2019
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  I think iPads actually support the 'Request fullscreen' action now, so you could try using that, although (as has always been an issue on iOS) there are fixed overlays/touch zones that you can't remove, so you have to design your game around. It's only iPhones where 'Request fullscreen' still does not work.

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  • 20 Nov, 2019
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  That bug with the font not reverting back seems to be a weird one though

  It's just a typo in the BBcode. It says [\font], not [/font].

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  • 20 Nov, 2019
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  Here's a clearer test: dropbox.com/s/fqduhek8ncez338/emojifonttest2.c3p

  It seems to work fine in Chrome and Firefox on Windows, and Chrome on Android. It doesn't work in Edge on Windows, but that is due to be replaced with Chromium-based edge soon anyway. I haven't tried Safari though.

  
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  • 20 Nov, 2019
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  The Text object supports the system default color emoji:

  

  If you are trying to import a web font with different emoji, I'm not sure if that works... emoji normally have special separate handling in the browser/OS since they render with color, and I think sometimes there is the concept of font switching too - i.e. when finding an emoji character, it switches away from the current font to the system emoji font and renders the emoji there, so emoji always work in every font regardless of whether the font has its own emoji or not (and likely most don't have any). So support for emoji from a specific font probably needs to be specially implemented, and I'm not sure what the browser/OS support for that is like.

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  That's impossible. Once you stream a game it basically turns in to video playback, and you can no longer alter any properties of the game.

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  • 20 Nov, 2019
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  The event sheet is the source code for your game. Nothing in the exported project really corresponds to source code, since by that point it's converted in to export data, which is not directly executable.

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  • 19 Nov, 2019
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  Are you using an iPad?

  If so, Safari on the new iPad OS deliberately pretends to be a macOS desktop device. As far as I'm aware there's no reliable way to identify it as an iPad.

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  • 19 Nov, 2019
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  Another gotcha is for touch input you can only start playback in a touch/pointer end/up event, not the start/down event. Basically if you start playback in the first touchend/pointerup/keydown event received, it should unblock audio playback and everything else will work normally after that.

  It's one of those slightly complicated things Construct normally takes care of for you, but you have to handle yourself in script.