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ssusnic: you don't need to modify the javascript to do that. You can do it all from within C2 with the Browser object. See this blog post.
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Haha, these are very cool :)
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Kyatric is right, Construct 2 is a game engine not a website creator! While we don't want to limit what people do with it, we don't recommend using it to make websites for pretty much the same reasons people don't like pure-Flash websites:
- search engines can't crawl it so your search engine ranking will suffer massively
- you can't select text in the page to copy/paste
- you can't Ctrl+F search within the page
- back/forward buttons in the browser generally don't work
- you cannot easily get a URL to a specific screen/layout/page
- translation tools like Google Translate don't work, so your international visitors are left out
- we don't even have a convenient hyperlink object (like I say, we make a game engine, not a website creator)
- on top of all that, users with old browsers which don't support HTML5 will be unable to view your website at all! That's currently about 25% of users in the world. Not the end of the world for a casual game, but the end of the world for your website.
Highly respected usability expert Jacob Nielsen wrote about why Flash sucks for websites as far back as 2000. Many of those points still apply to websites made in Construct 2. So I would highly recommend you make a website the traditional way, in HTML and CSS.

Of course, using it for non-essential content like banners, logos, or (obviously) games is fine. I would just recommend you don't make your entire website in it.
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Just use the 'Compare two values' system condition.
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Why not just update the artwork on the placeholder sprite? Then you don't need to replace any events at all.
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Have you read the manual entry on performance tips and applied those already?
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Adding dt to a variable counts up 1 every second.

So try adding another "AttackTimer" instance variable and doing:

+ Every tick

-> Enemy: Add dt to AttackTimer

+ Enemy AttackTimer >= AttackInterval

+ For each Enemy

-> Run timer event with Enemy

System conditions like "Every X seconds" only run once without any regard for object picking, so usually instance variables is the best way around that.
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Fimbul, that's not quite right, Construct 2 runs its own preview server. So unless you run Apache on a different port (e.g. localhost:80) and specifically AJAX the URL "http://localhost:80/construct/jax/php", it won't work. Currently I think it is easiest to run a server on the open web, e.g. example.com/jax.php - then you don't have to change anything from preview to export, either.
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It should be something like Ship.Physics.CenterOfMassX/Y. You can also get it by browsing to the ship object in the floating object panel, and double-clicking the expression name.
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legora: check for errors in the browser. See also the section on "No audio plays".
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I've added some on suspend/resume triggers to my todo list, but it should be fixed from the plugin really.
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I'm not sure. Maybe try removing all third party plugins and see if it goes away.

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