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  • Containers should be back eventually, but we have a long todo list!

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  • We're going to make sure the deal lasts until the end of the 19th for all time zones. In some countries this might be a few hours in to the 20th.

  • You can fake it for fullscreen backgrounds:

    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15217362/scrollingbackground.capx

    Does that do what you need?

  • CC was worked on in the spare time of volunteers for 4 years, most of us on full-time university courses during that working on Classic on the side. It's hardly comparable to full-time development by a company. Also, we're now a 2-man company already working round the clock, there literally are not enough hours in the day for us to go back to working on Classic, especially when there's no financial benefit to us doing so. In fact, since Classic is so difficult and time consuming to work with, diverting resources away from the profit-making C2 could actually sink us completely at this time, so it's genuinely off the cards. On the other hand it is open source and there are some other developers working on it - r2 is in the works and should be out soon with some minor fixes by other devs.

    Again, these problems probably can't ever be fully resolved for technical reasons - Classic really is beyond repair - the bug fix is Construct 2. So yes, it would be super hard work, and certainly too much work for official Scirra devs. We're still supporting the work involved in building and distributing new releases so we are helping to keep it going, but that's as far as it is possible for us to practically help with Classic at the moment.

    Finally, I'm afraid to have to put it like this, but I don't think we're obliged to spend long unpaid hours working on some software you got for free, especially when we have already fixed all the issues and called it Construct 2.

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  • Zetar - it seemed to work fine. I guess submitting by r74 isn't working. I'm going to have to reject all the other submissions that aren't working, sorry - if your game gets rejected please try re-submitting with r75 and it should work!

    Alerting people whos games I've had to reject:

    —

    Sheogorath

    gmx0

    uizex1

    Please resubmit with r75 and it should work!

  • lucid's link goes in to detail. But in brief:

    why in the world did you begin C2 without fixing the most atrocious bugs in C1 first?

    Because we couldn't - many of them are deep-running design flaws which would take more time to fix than to start with a clean slate. Construct 2 is that clean slate.

    ) When I use the sprite-editor and load up an existing image file and save it, it cuts the image literally in half, it cuts the bottom half of the image completely off.

    Could be a graphics driver bug, are your drivers up to date? Unlike C2, Classic uses DirectX for the image editor which means it's vulnerable to driver bugs. Part of the reason C2 uses a software rendered image editor is to avoid issues like this.

    ou need to fix these bugs

    Like I say, we knew there were big problems, and we knew we could do better, and that's why C2 exists. Also you should remember you got Construct Classic for free, and it was written entirely by volunteers working in their spare time.

  • That's another known bug, should be fixed in the next release!

  • septeven - we already have our plugin SDK which lots of kind volunteers have used :) I think it's too much to ask - unethical even - to ask for more than that for free, and we can't afford to hire anyone right now.

  • Scale mode adjusts the layout zoom whereas crop mode doesn't. Scale mode only shows more of the layout if the aspect ratio of the window changes, whereas crop mode always shows more if the window is bigger.

    The feature is designed for mobiles and tablets with different sized screens with roughly the same aspect ratios (no extremities anyway, like you can get by resizing a browser window to weird shapes). You could try adding your own black bars with some black Tiled Background objects on the top layer.

  • Ah, extra space at the sides means more of your layout showing, not black bars... I'll edit the tutorial to clarify.

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