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ABOUT REV 0096 - 26 November 2005

bug and api fix release. mostly minor things but useful to avoid
several quirks that showed up in rev 0095.


[ fixes ]

- fixed a bug that prevented movies from opening properly in 0095.
 http://dev.processing.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=216

- lots of tweaks to openStream(), and all the loadXxxx() functions.
 + web server logs should no longer be spammed with quite so many 404s
   from p5 applets looking for files in their data folders.
 + the open and load functions now handle subfolders inside the data
   folder. subfolders in the data folder are now included on export.
   http://dev.processing.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=218
   http://dev.processing.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=65
 + instead of halting the applet, a missing file (i.e. with loadImage()
   or loadStrings()) will return null and print an error to the console.
   this is better for people who know how to deal with null values,
   but hopefully the others will actually read the console to see the
   error otherwise, because the end result will be a NullPointerException.

- deal with some issues where applets weren't running or were closing
 immediately in revision 0094/0095.
 http://dev.processing.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=210
 http://dev.processing.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=204

- when loading a PNG image, set the image to ARGB if it has an alpha
 channel. also fix a bug in the GIF image alpha channel checking.
 http://dev.processing.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=217

- fixed a text block wrap problem when a manual break character (\n)
 was used: http://dev.processing.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=188

- remove some unnecessary applet resizing that was happening whenever
 an applet was loaded. this would sometimes cause the wrong window
 size to be used by appletviewer, or cause applets to start at their
 correct size, then resize to 100x100, and then resize to their correct
 location once setup() was complete.


[ api ]

- hint(DISABLE_DEPTH_TEST) will disable the zbuffer in P3D or OPENGL.
 re-enable with noHint(DISABLE_DEPTH_TEST);

- added methods for libraries to be able to get sketch folder paths.
 the variable 'folder', which was changed to 'path' for rev 0094 is
 now called 'sketchPath', and won't change again. see the javadoc
 reference on dev.processing.org for more details on this and the
 additional functions:
 + sketchPath() returns the path to a file in the sketch folder.
 + dataPath() returns the path to a file inside the data folder.
 + createPath() will take any path and make sure that the
   interstitial folders exist. this is used by saveFrame() and
   savePath() to make sure that the parent folders exist.
   for instance, saveFrame("image/blah.tif") will use createPath()
   to ensure that the folder "image" exists inside the sketch folder.
 + savePath() is like sketchPath() but uses createPath() to make
   sure that it's save to save there.
 this will probably break the libraries again, but hopefully with
 this change, they should stop breaking going forward.

- changed unhint() to noHint() to match the rest of the api.
 i don't think anyone was using this so hopefully it won't affect
 anything.


[ misc ]

- macosx release is now packaged with as a .dmg instead of a .sitx
 http://dev.processing.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=116

- added reference category to the bugs db so that reference issues
 can be handled there as well.

- added MAYSCRIPT="true" to default applet html (for javascript)
 http://dev.processing.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=211