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Topic: Status 20 September (Read 464 times) |
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fry
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Status 20 September
« on: Sep 20th, 2003, 10:56pm » |
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this week (perhaps even this weekend), i'm planning to shove out release
0060. aside from many many bug fixes, the three main things are 1)
graphics api changes 2) qtjava changes and 3) a fancier preprocessor from
dan mosedale, which fixes countless quirks in how programs are compiled.
GRAPHICS API
most of the changes in this release have to do with nailing down the
graphics api for beta. many function names have been changed to be more
coherent and make better sense with one another.
a majority of code will need to be modified, since background() has
changed significantly (it actually clears the screen, instead of the
screen 'magically' being cleared each time loop() starts).
also lots more functions for saving images, resizing things, etc. lots of
code from toxi for nicer image stuff.
QUICKTIME FOR JAVA
i'm changing how quicktime for java is handled, yet again, to deal with
bugs in the quicktime for java installer. hopefully this time things will
work better. (in the end, we're just going to ignore the CLASSPATH and
QTJAVA environment variables, since they're too often a mess, and break
things..)
NEXT RELEASES
- if 60 has a lot of little problems (wouldn't be surprising, because of
the number then we may have a release 61 which just fixes small quirks.
- the next release will likely go after a lot of gui changes to improve
how sketchbook behaves. this means 1) including other code 2) a menu item
to add files to the data folder of the sketch 3) a font builder (!) and
lots of other stuff like that, to repair things that have been driving
people nuts.
- another release to follow will tackle the sound, net, and video APIs the
way that we did with the graphics in rev 60.
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mKoser
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Re: Status 20 September
« Reply #1 on: Sep 20th, 2003, 11:15pm » |
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Yipeee!... I am looking forward to this release! 
Hmmm, with all these changes being made to the API, I just realised that when the final BETA is out (and the API has stabilized itself) I guess it would make sense to go through the open source-examples on my website and redo them with the new syntax? (damn!)
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