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Construct 3 r158

New additions, scripting updates, lots of bug fixes, and more

15 July, 2019 ()

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It's the start of a new beta release cycle, and we have a big update for you! This release brings additions, changes, fixes and other updates across a wide range of areas. Some of the highlights are described here, but be sure to check the changelog items below for the full details!

New additions include better support for Safari 13+, including support for the permission prompt to enable device orientation/motion, and support for scrolling iframes. There's support for loading stylesheets from both the event sheet and scripting. There are some new project settings to help configure rendering latency and memory usage. And probably the most significant addition is support for autocomplete in the code editor - a very helpful assistance to have while writing JavaScript code.

Another significant change is worker mode is now enabled by default for new projects. This mode hosts the entire runtime in a Web Worker off the main thread, which has performance benefits. There are some potential compatibility differences in this mode though so we won't be prompting existing projects to switch over like we did with the C3 runtime. However we feel it's matured enough to be working reliably, and ought to be the default setting. Making this change now should ensure it gets more testing and hopefully can remain on for the next stable release.

Finally there's a big batch of bug fixes to ensure Construct is working smoothly; another performance boost to the C3 runtime; and the Italian language is now available by default. SDK developers should also note that as warned, support for variadic parameters in conditions/actions has been removed in this release. Stay tuned for more updates!

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New Additions

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Touch: action to request device orientation/motion permission, which is now required to use them on iOS 13+
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Browser: 'Load stylesheet' action (can also load CSS project files)
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'Compositing mode' project property, allowing opting-in to a new low-latency rendering mode supported in Chrome 75+
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Max spritesheet size 512 option, for aggressively optimising for memory use potentially at the cost of performance
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SpriteFont: PlainText expression

Changes

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Scripting features are now hidden when 'Use simplified user interface' enabled
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New projects now use worker mode by default
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Update 'Infinite jumping' template to request device orientation permission on mobile
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Organised Advanced Random and Mobile Advert actions/conditions/expressions in to categories
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iframe: updated to allow scrolling on iOS 13+ since a long-standing iOS bug with iframes was fixed
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Plugins that have required properties linked to Cordova variables will now display an error on export if left empty

Bug Fixes

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C3 runtime 'Not supported' message could fail to show on very old browsers
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Mouse: 'Cursor is over object' could sometimes work incorrectly in OR blocks
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Platform: in rare cases jumping almost through a jump-thru could get stuck sinking through it
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iframe: could not load project file URLs in preview mode
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Browser: invoking download on project file URLs did not work correctly in preview mode
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Double-clicking a condition/action could select the wrong item if the description causes the items to move down
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Layout view: could draw the timeline path of an instance from a different layout
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Event sheet view: disabling a group with called functions inside could prevent preview starting
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Event sheet view: in some cases could incorrectly scroll while dragging items
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Event sheet view: in some cases could incorrectly describe global variables as static
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Timeline Bar: Selecting multiple elements now shows the common shared properties in the Properties Bar
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Timeline Bar: Crash when closing the bar while a timeline is previewing
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Timeline Bar: Possible crash while closing the bar
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Timeline Bar: Do not change current timeline in the Timeline Bar when the layout is changed
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Timeline Bar: Fix crash moving master keyframes
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Tilemap Bar: Crash when the bar is closed very quickly after starting the application
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Tilemap Bar: Possible crash when the contents of the bar is refreshed
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Animations Editor: Fix tolerance of the fill tool when used on colors which are not fully opaque
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Animations Editor: Crash when opening and closing the editor very quickly
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Properties Bar: Possible crash when refreshing the properties of a sprite instance
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Layers Bar: Bar not updating when changing layouts
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Text Editor: when swapping tabs the scroll position would be lost, and it would appear be partially blank until interacted with
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Text Editor: some JS files would not have syntax highlighting/error checking
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Mobile Advert: using "Set user personalisation" would prevent "Show user consent" and "Set user personalisation" from working afterwards (C3 runtime only)
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Mobile Advert: able to modify the user personalisation state in the C2 runtime before configuration
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Audio Importer: files with uppercase file extensions could not be imported
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Back button handler not working in Android apps when statusbar is hidden (regression in r156)
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On some Android devices when the keyboard appears it would reveal the statusbar, which would then not be hidden again
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Firefox: Start Page icons could appear over the Login dialog

Performance Improvements

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Further reduce memory usage of instances

SDK updates

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Construct will now refuse to load addons using unsupported parameter types, including variadic condition/action parameters. See this thread for

Language updates

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Italian language is now available by default!
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Added Bosnian as an in-progress language

Scripting updates

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New scripting examples 'Simple alert', 'Simple keyboard movement', 'Local storage' and 'Integrating events with script'
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Autocomplete of variables and properties
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Added runtime.assets.loadStyleSheet() method
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Add option to create new JavaScript file in 'Files' folder (useful with loadScripts)
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Added option to the Settings dialog to allow the font size to be changed for all text editor and inline script blocks

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  • Thank you!

  • "New scripting examples 'Simple alert', 'Simple keyboard movement', 'Local storage' and 'Integrating events with script'"

    I hadn't noticed before the possibility of using "localVars" to pass values between scripts and the event sheet.

    Thanks for these examples: they are very useful.

  • You Guys Do Every Thing But Never Support Android Mobiles When? You Will Bring The Google Cloud Save Plugin For Android Games I Use Unity Now Every Thing Is Easy To Add With Playmaker And Bolt Do Something Im A Big Supporter Of Construct 2,3 i Want That To Be In Construct 3 Please

  • Really excited for the CSS support, looking forward to putting together some examples so people less familiar with CSS can see how powerful this can be!

  • When 158 starts if there's a plugin installed that has a variadic parameter it causes construct to issue a "Oops Something went wrong error, but there's no way to close that window to uninstall that plugin or update it to a new version. So it makes the entire construct unusable.

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      Roll back to r157, uninstall or update it, then switch back to r158. Addon developers should have published updates to their addons by now.

  • Autocomplete is an incredibly necessary and appreciated update :)

  • — The Status Bar problem is now resolved (when Keyboard hides) on Android. [Thanks for the fix] but now, when Google Play signs in, the Navigation Panel shows up permanently. Doesn't go away. Browser object fullscreen command doesn't hide it, Pulling and releasing status bar doesn't help either. The only way it gets hidden is when I close an Ad. In R157 it was fine. Can you please look into this?

  • I am surprised by the results of your labors, now the purchases are earned))))))))

  • Now I will try to update my game, the reports will be published here.

  • Im not sure if it is a good idea about the worker, i found that old androids or explorers the worker made a huge fps drop. Right now, im testing with a big project and found that worker lags the multiplayer plugin on small smartphone devices. I understand this beta is for testing that, so that's my apreciation.

    • Do you mean network lag or performance lag? Networking should have nothing to do with the worker mode.

      • the multiplayer plugin lag that i detected, is related to the performance drop using the worker. something like it takes more time to send the data... not sure, i have to test more.

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