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  • 12 Mar, 2019
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  Please request official features in the SDK - don't just go and dig up undocumented, unsupported features.

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  • 12 Mar, 2019
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  Also, to demonstrate the importance of this:

  For exemple this.inst.GetWorldInfo()._SetLayer()

  The reason _SetLayer() is marked private (via the underscore) and is undocumented, is because it is an internal engine call. It must be used simultaneously with a range of other calls across the engine, otherwise it will corrupt the internal state of the runtime and break the game. In other words, it's not useful on its own, and using it will break things. This is true of any other features you find that are undocumented.

  This has been a huge pain for us and other people before. Please do not go and write code using stuff like this.

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  I must emphasise that if you look for features using the debugger, you will find undocumented features that are not supported and could break at any time. See this warning in the SDK documentation:

  The runtime APIs allow access to all parts of the engine. Do not use undocumented features, or other object's properties or methods beginning with an underscore, which is a convention used to indicate private features. These features are subject to change at any time, including backwards-incompatible changes, or complete removal, that may break your addon. If your addon uses these features and is broken by a change, we will not offer any support, since you should not have been using them in the first place. If users complain about the breakage, we will forward them on to you. It is important to allow flexibility in the core engine to ensure we can make optimisations, do necessary refactoring, implement new features, and so on, which is why we will only support the documented, public APIs.

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  • 12 Mar, 2019
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  Your screenshot shows an invalid expression, because the double quotes are wrong. In general you can't paste JSON unmodified in to an expression, because " starts and ends string expressions, and the " around JSON properties will cause syntax errors. You have a few options to work around that:

  - use "" inside a string to produce a single character without ending the string

  - paste it in to a Text object or some other plaintext object and use that object's text as an expression

  - paste it in to a project file and load it with AJAX

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  • 11 Mar, 2019

  Please don't post duplicate threads.

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  • 11 Mar, 2019
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  You're confusing the Facebook API with Instant Games. They're different.

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  • 11 Mar, 2019
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  • 11 Mar, 2019
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  Are you using the latest version of Construct 3? It was only added recently.

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  • 11 Mar, 2019
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  It's hard to make sense of the screenshots. But I would guess it's a bug along the lines of "shadows are meant to be infinitely long but aren't" that was fixed in C3.

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  • 11 Mar, 2019

  Please start a new thread, this thread is 6 years old and out of date.

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  • 11 Mar, 2019

  This thread is 6 years old and is now out of date. Use the 'Set request header' action to change the Content-Type.

• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 11 Mar, 2019
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  It looks like you're using a SpriteFont, in which case it can only render characters that you've drawn an image for.

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  • 11 Mar, 2019
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  Load it back in to Binary Data and then load the sprite image from the BinaryData.GetURL expression. This is more efficient since it keeps it in binary all along and never converts it to base64.

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  • 11 Mar, 2019
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  Convert it to a sequence of PNGs.

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  • 10 Mar, 2019
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  I'd contact Microsoft about this, we don't develop the pubCenter service.