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Topic: P5 REV 55 (Read 260 times) |
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fry
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P5 REV 55
« on: May 28th, 2003, 2:02am » |
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is now being posted.. downloads ready to go by the time you read this.
ABOUT REV 0055 - 27 may 2003
WARNING! THIS RELEASE IS LESS TESTED THAN SOME OTHERS, AND INCLUDES
LOTS OF NEW CODE, SO IT'S POSSIBLE THAT THINGS COULD BE VERY BROKEN.
if you run into trouble, as with any release, just let us know about
the bug on the bboard, and use the previous one that worked for you
(i.e. go back to 54) it's all about 'alpha'.
[ big changes ]
perhaps very exciting, this is the first release to include explicit
support for audio, video, and network. perhaps more exciting is that
this code was developed by developers other than me.
net and video code was contributed by hernando barragan of ivrea.
everyone say "thanks hernando!"
the audio code is by carlos rocha, a hired gun whose
employment was made possible by the generous support of ivrea.
yay carlos! yay ivrea!
more about these guys can be seen at: http://proce55ing.net/info.html
[ status of audio, video, net ]
- audio should be java 1.1 compliant, meaning that it works inside
applets and on each of the platforms. audio should be working
reasonably well, and has been tested by carlos a good bit.
- similarly, the net code should be just ducky.
- video input and reading movie files is done through quicktime for
java, which means that you have to 1) be using windows or macos, and
2) have the durn thing installed. video is a little bumpy (you may
find it broken or unusable), which we're ironing out. but the
problems have been showing up inconsistently, so we preferred to get
the release out so that y'all can start playing with the other new
features.
[ new features! new bugs! ]
- sort functions for arrays of ints, floats, doubles or Strings
// here's how it works for floats:
float a[] = { 3.4, 3.6, 2, 0, 7.1 };
sort(a);
for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
println(a[i]);
}
- added wheel mouse support for osx, when running java 1.4.
NOTE! we don't actually recommend using java 1.4 under macosx, as it
seems to be much less stable than 1.3, and appears to introduce some
weird inconsistencies when running p5. (this also fixes a bug where
using a 1.3 vm with the windows expert version would fukker the
environment).
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