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  • 16 Oct, 2014
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  BTW it looks like you're using animation frames as tilemap tiles - that's going to use up a lot of images, and the Tilemap object does that a lot better, so that's one thing you can do.

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  • 16 Oct, 2014
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  Your project uses nearly 7000 separate images. That is insane. I can't comprehend why you could need such an extraordinary number of images. Do you have an object with 5000 animation frames or something?

  The problem is not the overall memory use, but once you start getting close to 10,000 images, you start to get close to a hard-coded Windows limit of how many separate images you can be working with at once.

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  • 16 Oct, 2014
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  See Troubleshooting Construct 2's preview server.

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  • 16 Oct, 2014
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  You can't. Events are statically analysed and optimised at startup for performance reasons, so it would be extremely difficult to support this. Why on earth would you want to do that anyway? Morphing code is a really hard way to do anything useful.

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  • 16 Oct, 2014
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  The only DOM elements in the page are any form controls and the canvas itself. So you can style that, but not anything else in the canvas (since it's rendered in directly as opposed to being DOM elements). There's really no special considerations here, you can style those things like any web page, but you shouldn't change the size or position which C2 controls.

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  • 16 Oct, 2014
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  I don't think that's possible from a Windows 8 app yet.

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  • 16 Oct, 2014
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  I don't know what could have happened, C2 just runs the minifier the same way you run java apps from the command line: java -jar something.jar. If you can run java apps that way still then C2 should be able to as well.

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  • 16 Oct, 2014
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  I don't know - it's not really the right place to ask about CSS here, try StackOverflow or the MDN documentation.

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  • 16 Oct, 2014
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  Try using the 'Set CSS style' action.

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  • 15 Oct, 2014
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  You are probably using letterbox fullscreen, and the bars are letterbox fullscreen working correctly. See supporting multiple screen sizes.

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  • 15 Oct, 2014
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  Yes, it's normal, because Chromium is a multi-process browser. Google Chrome does the same thing. I think those will be a content process, a UI process, and a GPU process.

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  • 15 Oct, 2014
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  I just tried it with the latest update and it still works fine here.

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  • 15 Oct, 2014
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  Actually I already did the pixel padding change for the next beta. I don't think it will have any serious performance impact like I thought (I found a pretty efficient way to do it). Hopefully that fixes this and any other seams-after-export issues!

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  • 15 Oct, 2014
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  Sync does not sync anything other than what you explicitly tell it to, in order to save bandwidth. Nothing is automatically included, not even containers. If an object is always positioned on top of another, then syncing it as well is just a waste of bandwidth - you can just position it on top of the other object on the peer without needing any extra data to be sent.

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  • 15 Oct, 2014
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  I think it's a problem with Android, it's just not very fast at decoding audio. IIRC I remember a Chrome engineer saying the Android media APIs weren't great which meant long decode times sometimes.

  There's not much you can do other than either preload everything and wait it out, or don't preload on startup and use the 'preload' action to try and get the few most important sounds preloaded in advance of whenever they'll be needed.