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Funnily enough, I recently have been considering the idea of doing some game design courses to raise money for a local charity, but I wonder if it would common for people to not be able to afford a subscription once they go home and want to continue playing around with C3.

I've not looked at the limitations of the free c3 yet, but I do remember some stuff is totally locked away. This is fine, like the "find" tool doesn't matter for a beginner with like 30 events.

But, as long as a beginner can add a few behaviours on different objects, use effects and layers, have enough events, and can preview on their phone (I recall "preview over WiFi" is a paid thing?) then it should be enough to convince people to set aside some money for a subscription (unless it's completely unaffordable to them, which is a shame, because the solution for these people would be to use gdevelop, or unity, as these are free, but I can't teach these as I don't know them!)
- Jase00
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127.0.0.1 is an IP Address that computers interpret as "this is me".

Lets say you have 2 computers: computer A, and computer B.

Computer A has your websocket server installed.

If computer A connects to 127.0.0.1, then it will work.

If computer B connects to 127.0.0.1, then this will fail as computer B tries connecting to itself and cannot find the websocket server.

You need either the external IP address, or a local IP address, of your websocket computer, in order to get other computers to connect to it successfully.
- Jase00
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Ayy hello,

I am thinking about utilising Construct 3 to make a small app to send encrypted data from A to B, by using a third party plugin to encrypt data, and the multiplayer plugin to send and recieve (then decrypt on the other end).

I wanted to ask: when exporting to Android/Windows, when a user runs the app on their phone or computer, does C3, NWJS, or Cordova, phone home at all and collect any data from the current app?

When I say "data", I don't mean data like "what version of android does the user have", but data such as user inputted data, e.g. when you type into a textbox or when you get a photo from the "user media" or any data from the "binary data" object.

Another way to ask this, is, if someone made a "login" system in C3, and there was a password textbox - how safe is this to do (assuming you design this correctly and encrypt before you send the data)?

I have a feeling that the answer is "No, nothing like that is collected", but just wanted to check!
- Jase00
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- 23 Nov, 2021
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Do you use the auto-backup feature in Construct 3? This might save you, as you may have a backup c3p file in the cloud, or in a folder on your computer.

When working on anything important, keeping backups is STRONGLY recommended.
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- 19 Nov, 2021
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With game development, you have to tell your game everything you need it to do.

If the player is falling out of the level, then you need to program your floors to be "solid".

Or, you could put an event for your player such as "is outside of layout?" then position your player back into the layout.

The more events you add, the more your project will work correctly!
- Jase00
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It's great how determined everyone is to help someone out!
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- 17 Nov, 2021
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No problem!

You're definitely using Construct 2? The game you bought, is the file a ".capx" file, or a ".c3p" file?

Construct 2 is discontinued, and that particular version would suggest that it's a very old version of Construct 2.

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- Jase00
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Oh wow, howcome you're using R80?
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- 14 Nov, 2021
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Yeah it was a bit of a headache :)

Though I just managed to fix the issue!

I'm not sure if this will be valid for all other cases, but for me it worked.

I tried running the previous NWjs version (57.1) and it worked, then I went

back to v58 and it worked too, strangest things...

Probably running a different version does some kind of extra cleanup.

Glad it works for you! I decided to give it shot and didn't have much success myself :( What I did:
- Clear AppData folder before starting anything
- Used NWJS 57.1 to run C3
- Logged myself in
- Installed 3 small addons
- Close C3
- Open C3
- Set theme and other few options
- Close C3
- Open C3, but this time, C3 instantly closes and I get the following message:
Construct 3 - Launcher Error (Code: '19')

Failed to run Construct 3!

(Please run the launcher as an admin and try again.)

I know that if I repeat these steps, I might get further randomly, even if I didn't change the theme or install addons. Hopefully an update for NWJS will fix this someday.
- Jase00
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Lol seeing all your edits reminded me of what I went through. It's such a headache to test isn't it?

You're right about the debugger - this whole issue relates to popup windows, but sometimes I've used C3 in NWJS for long periods of time, and I preview in popup windows, and I always use popup windows to drag onto a dual-monitor, so all is well and stable for hours... Until I use the debugger and it just nukes C3 and you have to delete appdata yet again, login, install plugins, set your c3 settings again, change your theme (which requires restarting C3), etc. And then you find that when setting everything up, it might corrupt your appdata AGAIN, so you end up running in circles, deleting appdata again, login, avoid something like installing plugins, set your c3 settings, preview a blank project, then it may/may not corrupt your appdata folder again...

My suggestion to you: I hated the risk of losing unsaved work, so I've now moved to using C3 in Chrome, but using the Remote Preview Tool to preview in NWJS. All you do is use remote preview in C3, copy the URL, open the Remote Preview Tool, paste the URL into this tool, and voila, you're testing in NWJS as simple as that. Each time I preview my project, I click "remote preview" and then I click "reload all" on the little remote preview popup in C3. Quite good!

However, one issue that I haven't found an answer to: I don't think you can use the debugger for remote previews, which is such a major loss, so currently I workaround this by having to use a spritefont that appends whatever info I want to debug. It's good enough, takes a bit more time though, but you can't use all the other useful features from the debugger, such as viewing the event sheet CPU usage.

Regarding C3 in NWJS, I've tested this on a fresh new VM with Windows 10, and the issue persists, so right now, I'd strongly urge everyone to avoid using C3 in NWJS, even from the official source or the third party launcher (which I always used and really adore!) but for now, you will run the risk of C3 suddenly closing with no error, possibly lose unsaved work, and then you need the computer knowledge to find your appdata folder and delete the right folder and waste time setting up C3 again, with the chance that you might need to repeat this process multiple times to get it working again.
- Jase00
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- 5 Nov, 2021
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Yeah I wonder about whether to post very minor quality of life ideas to the suggestion website, like the other thread that's ongoing:

construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/general-discussion-7/please-return-debug-button-16480
Understandably, some minor suggestions might be way more complicated, like maybe it's a massive pain to make alignment work correctly for function parameters, maybe it has a knock-on effect to other UI code, but yeah I do appreciate these kinds of updates too!
- Jase00
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I do agree with this, same with the "remote preview" button, which, I use 100% of the time, as I use C3 in Chrome, but need to always test with NWJS.

But then furthermore with remote preview, if you use this, then you know you need to click "reload" on the remote preview window each time you preview. Would be cool if there was a tick-box setting that you could tick to "auto-reload all remote devices when clicking preview", because then I'd literally be able to minimise the remote preview window and never need to interact with it. It'd make the chrome + NWJS combination work almost perfectly (the only missing thing would be, how do you get debug on a remote preview?)

I'm a fan of saving those repetitive few clicks, especially when it's something you commonly need to do!