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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 6 Apr, 2020
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  No, Instant Games are only supported in Construct 3.

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  Construct now defaults to running your projects in a Web Worker for performance reasons.

  For scripting this means a more limited set of methods are available. It's described in the manual in the 'Worker mode' section of JavaScript in Construct.

  The easiest thing to do is untick 'Use worker' in Project Properties.

  Also note when you create a new project, if you choose to start with script 'Use worker' is already turned off.

  A better place to start would be to try using console.log("Hello world!") which is supported in a worker as well.

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  • 4 Apr, 2020
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  Please don't double post threads.

  If a feature is not documented in the scripting reference in the manual, then you must use events to access it instead.

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  • 4 Apr, 2020

  Closing as the thread is essentially asking how to circumvent the free edition restrictions.

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  The Functions feature was redesigned last year. See the blog post Construct 3's new redesigned functions.

  You can also automatically convert old functions to new ones, as described in this follow-up blog post.

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  The SpriteFont manual entry has a whole section comparing the two.

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  If the third-party script supports running in a worker, you can load it in a worker with importScripts instead.

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  See the upgrade discounts in the blog post Sunsetting Construct 2.

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  It sounds like you bookmarked or installed a specific version of Construct. Note editor.construct.net represents the latest stable release, so if you bookmark or install that, you always get the latest stable release. If you want the latest beta instead, bookmark or install editor.construct.net/beta.

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  Our tool can only make automated checks, things like consistency of terminology are quality issues that are up to the translators.

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  You could also use "recreate initial instances" while all the previous instances still exist, so it can't give them the same UIDs. So even with some kind of reservation system the engine still cannot guarantee that the objects will get the same UIDs.

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  As noted in the manual for 'Invoke download':

  Downloading is a browser feature and depends on the browser UI. Note that mobile apps don't run in browsers (there is no address bar etc), so the download feature isn't available there.

  Construct doesn't have a way to write files to storage on mobile at the moment. But you can probably use the Share plugin instead to send the screenshot to another app. The Taking screenshots example shows how to do that.

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  I'm not sure exactly what you're doing based on that description, but a common mistake is to use ViewportWidth("Layer") / 2 for the middle of the screen. That's incorrect, it just gives you half the viewport width, which doesn't take in to account scrolling. The middle of the viewport is (ViewportLeft("Layer") + ViewportRight("Layer")) / 2.

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  I don't know, it seems tricky, as it stands the engine could assign UIDs to other objects so they're already in use when you try to recreate other objects again. Are you sure there isn't a better way to solve this?