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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 25 Aug, 2014
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  Please first make sure that your server has the correct MIME types set up. If it does, and you are using r178, please post a bug report.

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  • 25 Aug, 2014
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  getbit(sprite.inputs,0)==1 Set Animation "animation01" (play from beginning)

  This will restart the animation from the beginning every tick while the bit is set, so it will never advance beyond the first frame, making it look like it is not playing. Either play from the current frame or only set the animation the first time it is true.

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  • 25 Aug, 2014
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  It's a Safari bug if the browser crashes. You should report it to Apple.

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  • 25 Aug, 2014
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  Values must be returned synchronously from expressions. If query.first() is asynchronous, then you return a value after the expression has already returned, which is not allowed. It is really a bad idea to use anything asynchronous in an expression anyway, it doesn't fit the model of how Construct 2 works. Instead you should have an action to start the asynchronous task, a trigger that fires when it completes, and then synchronous expressions that return the results of the task.

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  • 25 Aug, 2014
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  Yes.

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  • 24 Aug, 2014
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  No, it would simply cache that the file returned 404 not found. But that should not ever happen unless you didn't upload the whole project.

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  • 24 Aug, 2014
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  It should do that already, providing the server caching is set up correctly. If the offline cache requests a file again, it can still use the existing browser cache.

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  • 24 Aug, 2014
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  Check your graphics drivers are up-to-date. By default the Windows node-webkit exporter now ignores the GPU blacklist, so driver bugs are going to show up.

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  • 23 Aug, 2014
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  API levels are just the technical version number. API level 14+ corresponds to Android 4.0+. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history

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  • 22 Aug, 2014
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  Crosswalk definitely only works on Android 4.0+. I'd have thought it wouldn't let you install it on older versions by default. Surely the Google Play Developer Console has an option to limit the Android versions?

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  • 22 Aug, 2014
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  As I understand, the Tilled Background object uses less resources than the Sprite object, so you should keep it as an option for a more CPU friendly solution, whenever animations aren't required.

  No, I don't think that's true, so I don't think it counts as a reason to keep Tiled Background. You should prove that with measurements, because a single frame non-animated Sprite should be identical CPU-wise.

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  • 22 Aug, 2014
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  I've fixed the error for the next build, so it simply logs to the browser console instead of bringing up that popup. However it still won't work, because you are loading a video from a different domain (http://egyptoon.net/v1.mp4). Cross-domain security limitations prevent you being able to load video from different domains if they do not allow it. The egyptoon.net server would need to send the Access-Control-Allow-Origin HTTP header to explicitly allow this.

  Alternatively just download the video file and import it as a project file, and then it can play since it's on the same domain.

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  • 22 Aug, 2014
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  Did you disable the GPU blacklist? This sounds like the consequence of doing that, since the GPU blacklist exists to avoid graphics driver bugs, and graphics driver bugs can cause kernel-level crashes that reset the OS.

  Driver bugs affect native software too, I'd add.

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  • 22 Aug, 2014
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  Pariunos - please don't reply to closed bug reports. Also like the error suggests iOS Safari simply does not support the feature and there is nothing that can be done about it.

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  • 22 Aug, 2014
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  I've been thinking for a while that a tiling mode in the Sprite object would cover all of this, since it already supports custom origins and animations, and means that doesn't need to be reinvented for the Tiled Background. It would however make Tiled Background kind of a redundant object which could be deprecated, but then this is a pretty significant change to a core object which is used in all sorts of videos, tutorials, descriptions etc. all over our own site, manual, and the rest of the web. I'm not sure what to do about this - perhaps we could add a tiling mode to Sprite and keep a somewhat redundant Tiled Background just because lots of people will still expect it to be there?