Project refreshing problem?

Jason · Mar 22, 2012

Is anyone else having the following problem?:

Basically, I export the game so it's a .html file (Along with other things...), and it's definitely a new build of the demo since I've tried it multiple times now... and when I come to test out the .html file, it's basically making me play an older build of the demo, so I can't see the cool new things I've just added through a public link, it's making it really hard now to share updates with people on the forums, since I'm clearly uploading the correct build, but when I link it to people, it's giving them an older build...

Does anyone know how to fix this or anything, it's REALLY annoying!

MarioSuperStar · Mar 22, 2012

Have you named it as your older builds? Just guessing.
Have you went to the Scirra forums? You may get better help there.

rosareven · Mar 22, 2012

It's very annoying. Basically you have to clear your browser cache.

I don't know how to only remove a particularly cache in chrome without removing my entire day worth of cache =/

Jason · Mar 22, 2012

Yeah rosareven, I did try that and it worked, but I don't want EVERYONE to have to do that...

Venetia · Mar 22, 2012

Only solution is to name the thing something else so their browsers load it entirely from scratch, without relying on cache.

There are other solutions you can use, but they will be a much larger pain in the ass and involve your editing the html code on every export. You can "trick" browsers with javascript to force reloads based on random query strings ... but unless you know what you're doing, this may cause a lot more of a headache than you're willing to endure.
You could attempt a no-cache meta tag which may cause the user's browser not to cache, but that will affect your game as it will force reloads every 300ms or so.

Honestly I'd just go with a rename.

Jason · Mar 22, 2012

Can we rename the index.html file to anything else? Because that'd be really great to be honest, I've not actually tried it...

Venetia · Mar 22, 2012

OR, tell people with Firefox and Chrome to do [Ctrl]+[F5] on loading.
Yeah I think that should probably work too.
That will force a non-cache reload.

Test it but that might be the easiest method.

Ellie · Mar 22, 2012

Hi jbrist, not sure if it still works, but try:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="-1">

(Inside <head></head>)

This should tell the browser not to cache the page.

Obviously, it doesn't work with Internet Explorer older versions, because that would be too simple. :kiss:

Venetia · Mar 22, 2012

That should work, but I don't know if Construct 2 games rely on cache. Wouldn't work if you used cookie-based savegames or things of that nature, would it?
(Couldn't hurt to test anyway :kiss: )

Also it doesn't matter if it doesn't work in NS or <IE9, as C2 games are HTML5 and wouldn't play in those browsers at all anyway

BlueScope · Mar 22, 2012

Including the file via PHP should do the job (with renaming, of course). Wyatt's method would be the best, but as Ven said, no idea if it works.
Worst case, use an iframe for the inclusion... still better than a client-side solution...

joannesalfa · Apr 2, 2012

Wyatt":oh5bs7fc said:
Hi jbrist, not sure if it still works, but try:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="-1">

(Inside <head></head>)

This should tell the browser not to cache the page.

Obviously, it doesn't work with Internet Explorer older versions, because that would be too simple. :kiss:

That works as well

or

if you make another directory in FTP like version1 folder, version2 folder, etc. If you use this kind of version control.

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