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  • I'd guess it's an oversight, as nobody ever needed to dynamically change the layer rendering mode before. It'd be best to post it as a suggestion.

  • You can change whether JavaScript runs in a Web Worker or in the DOM (main thread) with the 'Use worker' project property.

  • I remember 11 years ago when the Scirra staff said they discourage the use of flowcharts in programming, saying that “they are really inefficient with space, and you quickly end up with a unwieldy spaghetti which hurts more than it helps”, and now they’ve implemented them. I’m curious what changed their minds.

    I don't think flowcharts work well for game logic. You tend to end up with what looks like a big pile of spaghetti, and the two-dimensional scrolling makes it hard to review and change. Our approach with flowcharts is, currently, as a data structure only. This is suitable for things like conversation trees which are typically structured in an ordered way, and game logic stays in the Event Sheet View (or coding). I think this is a good way to bring the benefits of a visual designer for tree-like structures without the downsides of spaghetti-logic.

  • Thanks for the kind words! We might be a small team but we're working hard to make Construct great 😀

  • As noted in the manual, starting a download is a browser-only feature, and it doesn't work in mobile apps which aren't a full browser. You can try using the Share plugin instead.

  • Give a keyframe a unique tag, and then use the Timeline Controller 'On keyframe reached' trigger to run some actions when the timeline reaches that keyframe.

  • The layout size is basically how big the level is. It's the editing area in the Layout View and the default scrollable area.

    Construct defaults the layout size to twice the viewport size, because if the layout size is the same size as the viewport size, then by default you can't scroll anywhere. That resulted in a lot of beginners asking "why doesn't my game scroll", so the default is to provide a scrollable area.

  • Use the IStorage JavaScript API to integrate custom code with the Local Storage object's data.

    The database is only created on demand, so if you delete it, it won't come back until it attempts to write new data.

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  • would a possible solution be to restrict this to just being able to trigger Functions in nodes?

    I think that is already possible with 'On tagged node change' in the Flowchart Controller object. Give the node a unique tag, and then that trigger fires when the node is reached, where you can then place any special logic for it. (Correct me if I'm wrong —)

  • You can change the classes (and pretty much anything else) in already-loaded HTML with the JavaScript DOM APIs. In this case classList can be used to change an element's classes. For example: 

    const myElem = document.getElementById("myElem");
myElem.classList.remove("oldClass");
myElem.classList.add("newClass");

  • Why are you trying to use <body> tags? In HTML a document should only have one body tag, which contains everything in the entire document. You should be using a different tag like <div> anyway.

  • Well, like most web specs it is written by WHATWG or W3C (I forget what the exact relationship between them is), and usually devised by browser makers and interested third parties. The Pointer Events spec was originally written several years ago now. This part of the spec seems to be relevant to how holding mouse buttons work (they call them "chorded button interactions").

    I guess conceptually they consider a mouse a single pointer device and so something that can only go down or up once, similar to how a pen device goes down or up (making and releasing contact with the screen) separately to its button press state. But I don't think it's actually very intuitive for a mouse - as developers you just want an event when each button is pressed. It was annoying for developing Construct too.

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