Ashley's Forum Posts

  • It sounds a lot like something changed that allows direct LAN connections when previously it was transferring via the Internet. I read a while back about changes to WebRTC to use mDNS to establish local connections in a privacy-preserving way (without exposing your local IP). Maybe it's something to do with that.

  • See the section on pausing in the tutorial delta-time and framerate independence.

  • You can search for or post feature requests here: https://construct3.ideas.aha.io/

    In general, we're a small team and people have made hundreds of feature requests, representing years of work. Naturally lots of users are arguing that various features are essential, and so we constantly have to make tough decisions about priorities. Part of the reason we support third-party addons is so you don't have to wait for us to get round to it. If there are third-party features that cover what you need, then do take advantage of them.

  • I suppose we will have to investigate NW.js bug reports if people rely on it for features like NW.js debugging. However if there isn't much NW.js specific code, hopefully those cases will be rare.

  • Moved to scripting forum.

    Look at the Integrating events with script example.

  • AFAIK, Web Share only works in browsers, not in Android apps.

  • It's hard to help without seeing more of your project, because it's probably a mistake in your JavaScript code. You could also try using the browser debugger to investigate further.

  • It's great to hear it's faster now, but I'm a little surprised it makes that much of a difference - I'd have thought 50% faster would have been a great result, and even with the new compression, it skips compressing images because they're already PNG compressed, so it doesn't make any difference to that part of loading. Perhaps something changed in your network configuration (or in Chrome's way of negotiating connections) that meant it could connect over LAN and load at LAN speed, rather than over the Internet.

  • Have you tried the latest beta? We fixed a bug that might be related.

  • It looks like a bug affecting certain old versions of iOS 11.

    Which version of iOS are you running? Have you tried updating it? Most users are on iOS 12+ by now, and iOS 12 is the minimum supported version for the C3 runtime due to bugs in iOS 11.

  • We have several major features that are integrated with Cordova, such as IAP and ads. Are you saying we should just throw those out?

  • burningcake - please don't discuss removing license protections in C2, it's against the forum rules (for obvious reasons).

    I'd point out that 99.4% of all bug reports ever filed for C3 have been closed. For comparison, I found another tool which people occasionally mention on the forums that had a close rate of only 74.8%.

    The payment model discussion has been done to death already. I don't want to get in to a full repeat of the entire debate again, but I will point out: leaving users with the version at the end of their subscription isn't really feasible, since software usually needs regular updates to keep working. Stopping updates essentially means your copy of the software is retired until you pay again. Then some bug or compatibility change will break something, and predictably users will accuse us of holding them to ransom over a simple bug fix. So either we end up with lots of angry users complaining about negligent support (and they'd have a point), or we end up maintaining dozens of separate copies of Construct, which we simply don't have the resources to manage. I don't think either way is any better. With a subscription everyone stays on the latest version and we have a way to sustain the on-going maintenance (which is a very substantial part of our jobs, there's a ton of maintenance stuff always going on in the background). Besides, as has been pointed out, it's pretty cheap and well within the range of hobbyists - it's around the price of a basic Netflix subscription. Meanwhile there are other tools out there which charge far more for similar features - occasionally people mention on the forums one tool that is a 5x more expensive subscription!

  • Updated the original post with new downloads based on Chrome 80 (NW.js 0.44.0).

    Note: in future the distribution of NW.js releases will change. See this forum post for an outline of planned changes.

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  • I'm following Construct developments for a very long time but what keeps me out is the Cordova wrapping (for Android/iOS). This wrapper makes mobile apps to start in a stuttery way and the app icon doesn't seem to be pressed when user touches it

    I've never seen or heard any other reports of this. Do you have an example? It should all be working perfectly smoothly.

    Not only would using a different framework be a huge project to port everything over, it will also use exactly the same browser engine in the webview, so I can't see any technical reason for the performance to be any different.

  • chrome will make an APK from that website and you can find that app in your android drawer and your settings > apps .

    That's what I see when I add C3.