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  • would need a way to customize the index.html file before wrapping otherwise you end up with a weird looking game screen (for example space game with white border doesn't look good)

    The best way to do it would be to enable fullscreen-in-browser then just set the window size of the EXE. It should then take up the whole window with no border.

    A wrapper might not be that straightforward either: you might have heard browsers block the features necessary for auto-flip/auto-mirror and a few other things on the file:/// protocol. This might mean these features don't work in an EXE wrapper either! To get around that we'd have to build in a local HTTP server, and now a "simple" wrapper is getting a bit complicated...

    Plus, the only advantage of an EXE wrapper that I can tell is that you can submit to steam, as SullyTheStrange pointed out. I am not aware of any advantages, only the disadvantages of discouraging security warnings to download and play the game, and unnecessarily tieing your game to Windows. Please tell me if there are other advantages I'm not aware of! Because right now it seems the disadvantages outweigh the small advantage (I doubt many people will be publishing to steam in these early days).

    Please do go and experiment with third party EXE wrappers yourself though - I'd be interested to hear how it goes.

  • I'm afraid we can't alter licenses after issuing them. It doesn't matter if the name is wrong as long as you're the only person who uses the license. You can use Construct 2 on as many computers as you like (the installation is portable, so you can install it to e.g. a USB stick), as long as you are the only person using the license.

  • I'm aware that you can go fullscreen in browsers. Chrome seems to do it best, but still causes issues when the mouse hovers near the top of the screen

    The Mouse Lock API would probably fix this.

    irefox's idea of fullscreen appears to include leaving a menubar at the top of the screen and the windows taskbar down the bottomSeems to work here - you just have to wait a moment and the menu bar at the top slides away and then you're totally fullscreen. Same with IE9.

    y crisp and chunky pixel graphics are unavoidably blurred with the linear scaling that I can't turn off

    I'm also aware this is a major problem, and I have in fact been trying to make noises at the standards committee to properly support this, and they seemed receptive, but it may take time to sort out.

    rowsers always have been, and always will be quirky.

    Only with new features, and HTML5 is the bleeding edge. For example, in the latest generation of browsers, I think you'll be hard pressed to find any CSS2 quirks - at least none that matter, anyway. So once HTML5 has been around a while I think it will be pretty solid - it's only a matter of time.

    In other words, I think every single concern raised in this thread will be solved, it's only a matter of time. These problems do exist, but they exist because HTML5 is so new. Once it's had some time to mature, all these problems will be solved. Don't look at where HTML5 is, look at where it's going.

    Perhaps we can look in to an official EXE wrapper after all. But if the problems of HTML5 get fixed soon, what's the point? The only real advantage of an EXE that I can see is the speed, and if you're embedding a browser in an EXE, you don't get any extra speed! It's no faster than a browser on the web. Then you get the disadvantage of trying to persuade a security-conscious public to download an EXE file and OK all the security warnings they get.

    So try looking at it from my point of view: the way things are going, an EXE wrapper around HTML5 provides some disadvantages, and no advantages.

    lso, thanks for staying in the conversation that I'm sure you're sick to hell of by now.

    No worries, it's an interesting subject! <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle">

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  • This is because the registry hasn't been cleared in setup. The installer clears the registry so should prevent this. Did you copy over r65 or use a portable installation? If so you need to delete the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Scirra\Construct2 key and it should fix it.

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  • With errors where a project file goes missing, the project isn't actually particularly useful. I look at it and yes, it's just an ordinary project with a file missing, which doesn't tell me any more info. We really need to know what you were doing just before this happened to be able to fix it, if you can remember. Also, if you can reproduce it and provide a working .capx with a number of steps to break it, that's incredibly useful. From that usually we can immediately fix the bug, but without it we are left guessing and struggling.

    Activities involving renaming, deleting or creating new things are most likely to trigger this. If an animation frame goes missing, it's most likely from renaming, deleting or creating animation frames or animations.

    You might also be able to ignore any error messages, find the empty frame and manually add an image in to fix it, but we'd prefer to have this fixed so it never happens again!

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  • Browser share is a thing I think time will fix - after a year or two I'm sure IE8 and earlier will become the new IE6.

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