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  • I would highly recommend Construct 2 over Classic, since we're aiming to have it eventually replace Classic completely, and it has better documentation and is more stable. In the short term it may be lacking some things Classic had but in the long term it will definitely be the best option, and remember you cannot import a project from Classic in to Construct 2.

  • Wouldn't it be a better idea to save to a new temporary file then copy that over the old file.

    It already does that. It saves to myfile.capx.tmp, then providing everything has saved OK so far, it deletes the .capx and renames the .capx.tmp to .capx. So I have no idea how anyone could get corrupt files. I guess these things just happen, so hopefully autobackup will help there anyway.

    (For the record it does the same for every file in a project folder as well - e.g. first it saves to Layout1.xml.tmp, then if successful it deletes Layout1.xml and renames the .tmp)

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  • Can you post a .capx file demonstrating this?

  • Can you reproduce this? Are there any steps to make this always happen or is it a one-off? This message should in theory never appear, so I want to fix the real problem, not just make it do another save afterwards...

  • The 'Is online' condition literally has one line to return whatever the browser says its online status is. So I'm afraid it looks like the browser does not support it and there's nothing we can do to fix it ourselves.

    The next build includes some extra AppMobi integration which might help you solve this though.

  • Does the exported project work OK or is there a file missing? If so which file is missing and what was its image format in the image editor? Did you enable PNG recompression? These are the things that could relate to this bug.

  • This should not be necessary - if you start Construct 2 again when it crashed last time, it should auto detect that it failed to start up and automatically disable the start page. Did that not happen?

  • Ah, you're right, it always adds the link even if you have a license. I've changed this for the next build to only add the link in the free edition.

  • You're right we should add an auto-backup facility (been on the todo list for ages like a lot of stuff), I'll try and get it done sooner since two of you could've used it recently. However, you should also see best practices - back up regularly! Auto-backup is still not enough to secure your data (see the article - hardware failure, fire, floods, theft etc. can still cause disaster). Using project folders is the same, and they can still corrupt if your computer crashes/BSODs/disk skips during a save, they're not much different to .capx in that regard.

    I cannot recommend enough that you keep a daily backup on Dropbox. It takes literally no time at all and even with autobackup in Construct 2, it will mean your data is safe even if your entire computer is destroyed.

    In fact I think it might be worth adding a built-in feature to backup to a dropbox folder once a day. I'll try get on that for the next build.

  • ranma unfortunately yes, you can only draw your sprites bigger which is a shame.

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  • 'Spawn' spawns an object for every picked object. So if you only want one object to spawn just add another condition to make sure only a single object is picked. E.g. 'pick random Sprite'.

    Alternatively just use the system 'create object' action which only ever creates one instance.

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