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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 18 Jun, 2014
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  It's probably using a software renderer for WebGL mode.

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 18 Jun, 2014
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  It's up to the browser how it defines "online" and sometimes just being connected to a LAN counts. It might also only update it when next making a network request. See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigatorOnLine.onLine

  If you want a more robust way to check, you need to invent your own system, such as AJAX requesting a server to see if it is reachable.

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  • 18 Jun, 2014
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  I think the pathfinding behavior is the only exception, since to build its obstacle map it also needs to know about any objects created on start of layout. From the second tick it should work though.

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  • 18 Jun, 2014
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  No, this will not work well. Instead just export from Construct 2 for the Windows Store, choose a universal app, then build for Windows Phone 8.1.

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  • 18 Jun, 2014
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  Closing as won't fix, it's a limitation in iOS. Music cannot be played or preloaded until a touch event and the Audio object works around this for you (if you use the Play action, it queues it to play in the next touch event on iOS). The older release probably worked because it routed music through the web audio API, but this resulted in longer delays before music started playing and much higher memory use, so we put it back to the streaming mode which can only start in a touch.

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 18 Jun, 2014
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  Try the Browser object's 'Is online' condition.

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  • 18 Jun, 2014
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  I've asked Intel to support it automatically in Crosswalk. I'll nudge them and see what the progress is.

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  • 17 Jun, 2014
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  It's not there for no reason: if you remove the fast trigger mode your project will have a performance penalty per 'On function' event used per function call, even from unrelated function triggers, and even if none of the other function triggers are actually used. Don't try to hack the engine if you don't understand it! It would be better to find a different solution.

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  • 17 Jun, 2014
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  Oh right, that's not from the free bundle, it's from the licensed edition bundle. We'll investigate.

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  • 17 Jun, 2014
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  See how to make a platform game. You should use an invisible non-animated square sprite with the platform behavior, and place the player sprite (with no behavior) on top. As it is your collision mask and events to rotate the object will interfere with the platform behavior. If you check the 'is on floor' condition, it is regularly losing contact with the floor, and you are not allowed to jump when in mid-air. See the 'rotating platformer' example for a working demo of this. Closing as won't fix.

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  • 17 Jun, 2014
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  I don't think we can fix this. The parameter must really be a constant - as in a string literal, not even a global constant. The problem if we allowed this is you could make an event referencing a global constant, run the game, then later at some point decide you don't want that global to be a constant any more, so you edit it back to be a normal variable and add some events to change it at runtime. Then the event you previously made is no longer valid.

  What's the benefit of using a global constant anyway? It doesn't seem like it saves you any typing or improves maintenance at all.

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  • 17 Jun, 2014
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  I'm not sure it's a good idea to try and circumvent the app store restrictions - if they realise your app basically is a browser, won't the 17+ rating still apply?

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  • 17 Jun, 2014
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  How does it perform in Chrome for Android? Is it the same? Have you looked at the "identifying GPU blacklisting in Chrome" steps here?: https://www.scirra.com/manual/134/performance-tips