Release 1.2.2 HTML/itch.io Bugfixes

[Grisgram]

Hello dear cloners!

Sorry for pushing another hotfix so close to the last one, but it's an important one.
I could find the reason, why HTML games did not start when hosted on itch.io -- which is one of the primary sites for game jams and where many many thousand indie projects live.

The project settings should now be correct to have the html target of your game start directly on itch.io.

What was the problem?

GameMaker allows us to set our own index.html file as the launcher file for the HTML5-target. This file must reside in the Included Files folder.
Unfortunately, if you do that, you will end up with a html-zip files that contains this index.html file twice. Once in the root-folder (correct), and an identical copy of it in the game-folder.

Due to how the mechanism works on itch.io, it then happens, that itch finds the index.html inside the game folder first, and launches this one. Of course this file must crash, as all relative paths do not match (the .js main code of the game is not found).
I set up the project now so that this index.html in the game folder no longer gets exported when you build a html-executable. It is still contained in the correct location in the root folder of course, only the copy vanished.

Other resolved bugs in this release

• On HTML target, the InputBox control did not handle mouse clicks correctly, when the input box was set to draw_on_gui.
• Tooltips sometimes did not show up in the HTML target
• A bug in the LG initialization process was fixed if you configure LG_AUTO_INIT_ON_LOAD as false
• Saving a plain text file in the HTML target sometimes could not be read back due to a path mismatch

Here is the view from the public roadmap

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