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  • 14 Jun, 2016
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  Disabling groups can help improve performance, since all the events in the group must still test their conditions against (possibly many) instances to determine that nothing meets the condition. It can keep executing through to later conditions in the same event as well before it determines the event won't run. So disabling the event can save all that work from happening. Or, it might make no difference at all. As ever you should measure it to determine if it's worthwhile.

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  Minification does not affect the savegame format at all. In fact it should not actually affect anything, other than making the game's download smaller.

  The savegame system uses the same storage as local storage internally, so it doesn't make much difference which you use. No save system is hack-proof and there's not much difference on that point either.

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  Why not just use WebGL effects? That's what it's there for.

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  • 14 Jun, 2016
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  The main difference is how they are run: a function will call the "On function" event, run it to completion, and then return to the "call function" action and continue from there. In other words it calls other events from within an action.

  Activating a group just enables a bunch of events so that they can be read the next tick. It doesn't actually run anything at the point you say "activate group".

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  • 14 Jun, 2016
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  I don't think it's reasonable for us to try to work around bugs/missing features on old unsupported browsers with a small and falling usage share.

  There's always Chrome and Firefox which are both available for OS X too.

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  • 13 Jun, 2016
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  IIRC, there was a Safari bug in Safari 8 that we worked around, but the underlying issue was fixed in Safari 9. So I guess anything using Safari 7 or older still won't trigger "on ended" properly. I don't think there is anything we can reasonably do about this, it's best to keep your system up to date.

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  • 13 Jun, 2016
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  Why not just use the Audio plugin?

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  • 13 Jun, 2016
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  It's by design that "On end of layout" does not trigger when you close the page - terminating the app is treated as different to switching layouts (which is what triggers on end/start of layout).

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  • 26 May, 2016
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  Yes, WKWebView should work with the latest version of the Intel XDK. It was added after the r224 release notes were written. It's only automatically enabled if you use the new Intel XDK project format though.

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  • 25 May, 2016
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  No, please don't do that, it just gets confusing. It's fine to start a new thread.

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  • 25 May, 2016
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  Please, post this all to a bug report following all the guidelines. Otherwise the thread will most likely be lost and forgotten.

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  • 25 May, 2016
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  Please file a bug report following all the guidelines, there's not much we can do otherwise. Also as ever including the contents of any error messages is essential.

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  • 25 May, 2016
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  Does the new option to completely disable unique icons in r229 help? (it reverts all Sprite/Tiled Background etc to their plugin icons)

  It might be GDI playing up again. It's a pretty crappy part of Windows.

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  • 25 May, 2016
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  Posting the data to a server is probably most preferable these days, or to save a local file use the Browser "Invoke download" option.

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  • 25 May, 2016
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  zeroflag - please file a new bug report. I verified the .capx in this submission worked in r229.