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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 28 May, 2019
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  We've been having an outage on our download server which affects NW.js. Everything else should be working OK. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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  • 28 May, 2019
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  Please report any such issues to the bug tracker following all the guidelines or it cannot be investigated.

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  • 28 May, 2019
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  It's technically difficult to support because only WebGL 2+ supports changing the sampling mode, and it's not yet widely supported enough to trust that it will work everywhere.

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  • 28 May, 2019
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  It's a bug. You'd need to file a report following all the guidelines for us to be able to investigate.

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  • 26 May, 2019
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  We just announced upcoming support for JavaScript coding.

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  • 26 May, 2019
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  With Binary Data, there is rarely any need for base64 any more, which is good because base64 is inefficient.

  You can use the NW.js object's 'Read binary file' action to read an image file in to a Binary Data object, and then use the Binary Data object's 'GetURL' expression to load it in to a Sprite.

• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 25 May, 2019

  — - about 4-5 of your last 20 posts are promoting your own services. The forums generally work on a voluntary basis. While it is reasonable to occasionally highlight services, regularly promoting your own paid services, especially when there was no indication in the thread that anyone was willing to pay for help, may fall afoul of the Forum & Community guidelines:

  promoting off-topic deals/offers

  I would suggest only making such suggestions when the user has indicated they are willing to pay for help, such as mentioned in this thread, but note there was no such mention in this thread, so the assumption is they are asking for free help.

• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 25 May, 2019
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  See Performance tips.

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  • 25 May, 2019
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  It works fine for me. If you press F12 you should be able to see any error messages in the console.

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  • 24 May, 2019
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  TheRealDannyyy - the server hosting the files is having a brief outage, hopefully it will be back live soon.

  Unprofessional - have you tried using Chrome's 'Install' feature? Construct should offer this itself in the main menu, as the 'Install as app' button. That lets you create a desktop shortcut, open without any browser UI, etc. so it looks and works just like a native app. (And it works offline, as the browser version does.)

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  • 24 May, 2019
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  I think the server the NW.js files are hosted on is having a brief outage. Sorry - hopefully it will be back soon.

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 24 May, 2019

  We noted some of the downsides of using WebAssembly in this blog post 2 years ago.

  "50 times faster" is also a massive exaggeration - from what I've seen it would be more like 20-50% faster in certain specific cases. It also would likely make no difference at all in many cases, since a lot of games aren't CPU-bottlenecked in the first place. Then it would be a huge amount of work to rewrite the entire engine in WebAssembly, with high on-going maintenance that would permanently slow down development and therefore reduce the number of new features we could work on. Given we already made some huge performance improvements in the C3 runtime, all just using JavaScript, I don't think it's necessary or worth it.

  We do already use WebAssembly in a few places though - notably the physics engine uses a WebAssembly build of Box2D, so the physics engine is already native-speed, Advanced Random uses a WebAssembly module for noise generation, and the WebM Opus encoder/decoder is based on WebAssembly.

• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 24 May, 2019
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  No. See Performance tips

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  • 24 May, 2019
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  For pixel-perfect rendering, you have to use 'Letterbox integer scale' fullscreen mode. 'Scale outer' allows fractional zoom levels which results in issues like this for pixel art games.

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  • 24 May, 2019
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  Tick 'Package assets' on export. It can make the app take a bit longer to start up though.