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  • 30 Apr, 2014
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  Only open windows on user input triggers, like "On button pressed", "On mouse clicked", "On touch start" etc.

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  • 30 Apr, 2014
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  I am yet to investigate, but it would be helpful to produce the smallest .capx possible that reproduces the problem.

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  It would waste battery on mobile devices if this was widely used.

  The Multiplayer plugin is the exception - it can keep running if you are the game host, since otherwise it would kill the game for everyone connected - but apart from that, it's probably just obnoxious to the user to have a background tab keep consuming CPU and battery power.

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  Don't use PhoneGap, it's usually very slow. Did you look at the Crosswalk tutorial? It results in an APK being emailed to you.

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  • 29 Apr, 2014
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  No, it's not possible to change renderer at runtime. I would be interested to see any examples of games running slower in WebGL mode if you could share them. I've run several pretty different tests and it can often double the framerate or more on some systems and is never significantly slower.

  If you're *only* seeing slow rendering in IE11, it's probably using a software renderer, which is likely unique to your system due to buggy graphics card drivers. Try updating them.

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  • 29 Apr, 2014
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  IIRC, they range 0-360 so "less than 0" will never be true. Try displaying the values in text objects to show what they're really reporting.

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  • 29 Apr, 2014
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  If those objects are overlapping, both triggers will fire and you will cancel fullscreen as soon as you request it, which is what I see happening. Try moving each object away when it is not showing.

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  How to export to Android with Crosswalk

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  • 29 Apr, 2014
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  The pong tutorial is about as minimal as it is possible to make a useful multiplayer example.

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  • 29 Apr, 2014
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  Maybe you want to use WebSockets instead? Or is the real-time part important?

  The multiplayer engine uses WebRTC which doesn't have much support on the server side AFAIK. You could also still do auth/DB/payment in a C2-based game, providing you websocket/ajax to another server component. So the browser tab would act as a sort of bridge.

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  • 29 Apr, 2014
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  It flickers, which suggests your events are accidentally breaking out of fullscreen as soon as you enter fullscreen. It should work fine in a new project. Show us your events if you need more help.

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  • 29 Apr, 2014
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  No, the image is not saved to savegames. In principle any network-related state is not saved to savegames (such as websocket connections, AJAX requests etc) since it is not easily possible, or would massively bloat the size of the savegame. Closing as not a bug.

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  • 29 Apr, 2014
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  The easiest solution is to also make the server in C2, and run it on the server in a browser tab.

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  • 29 Apr, 2014
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  Just use the Browser object's 'Request fullscreen' action. Sometimes it only works in a user-input trigger like a mouse click, touch or key press.

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  • 28 Apr, 2014
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  Joannesalfa - that example doesn't look like it uses floating point scaling like C2 does with letterbox scale. The seams are a natural consequence of the way rendering works when you use floating point positioning or scaling.