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State of Play

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malc ·

Just thought I should let you all know what the state of play is.

We've had some great feedback from you all so thanks very much for that. There are a stack of things that we need to get done and we're working through them as quickly as we can.

You'll probably have noticed that we're adopting a more regular release policy. The idea is to do small incremental releases more frequently rather than stacking them up. These will install over the latest minor release and will be identified by a letter at the end of the version name eg. 0.9.2d.

Minor releases will be the culmination of several incremental releases and these will be identified by the numbers after the first digit (the .9.2 in the example above). For the moment these will continue to install to their own new folder.

Our first major release will be version 1.0 followed by 2.0 and so on.

The latest incremental release (release i) is now available. As well as some bug fixes this has an update to the GUI components for setting fonts, pens and stringformats. There are 3 new components to allow you to construct these types and the quick way of specifying them using String components has also been updated. I'll try and get some documentation up about this soon but for now, here's a quick summary:

I'll focus on using Strings as the components for Pen, Font and StringFormat are fairly self explanatory. For a pen, the format is "colour,thickness,style", for a font it's "typeface,size,style" and for stringformat it's "style flags,horiz align,vert align".

Colours can be black,white,red,green,blue,grey and you can put a 't' in front to get a transparent version. You can now specify an exact argb colour in the form "(a:r:g:b)". For example, "(128:128:100:120)".

Further information on alignment and style options can be found using the context help (hover over the component).

Still on my list:

Navigator PGUP/PGDN swap round Crash when using a switch connected to Preset Manager Various redraw glitches with links Startup options (open example, blank, last used schematic) Make module for single component & dissolve module File association issues Search and filter bar Copy and paste issues (component names and data components) Crash autolinking both sides of a selector

There are others too. Feel free to give me a nudge if there's something you want urgently.

rl ·

malc wrote: Feel free to give me a nudge if there's something you want urgently.

please, PLEASE, P L E A S E, guys, write all that stuff together in some sort of reference manuall. Everyday I get stuck with simple questions like :- what is the data range of this module? :- when gets an adsr triggered :- can I convert plug types and how? e.g. can a boolean trigger be converted to a float? Also small usage examples would be helpful.

thanks,rl

malc ·

Sorry about that rl, so much to do and so little time...ahh 🙂

I made a start on the documentation - still alot to do. There's also a long standing requirement to extend the context help to include information about ranges for connectors which would help.

I might start the ball rolling soon on the Component Reference and Tutorials sections of the Docs and try and do a little each day. I just need to clear some of the bugs that have been stacking up.

Thanks for sticking with us.

Shifrin ·

Cheers for the update/info malc 🙂

Glad to read about the pen/line stuff!

Shif.

Tom7777 ·

Thanks Malc, argb colours yay 🙂

db ·

malc wrote: Just thought I should let you all know what the state of play is.

You'll probably have noticed that we're adopting a more regular release policy. The idea is to do small incremental releases more frequently rather than stacking them up. These will install over the latest minor release and will be identified by a letter at the end of the version name eg. 0.9.2d.

Malc,

Small favour to ask-could you pls. put the release date on the web site for each incremental release? Also the release date and version /increment letter in the about SM box.

Both would make it easier to keep track of which version we have vs. the newest.

Cheers

Tom7777 ·

could you pls. put the release date on the web site for each incremental release?

I think that would work best as a forum topic "Latest Version Release" or something similar 🙂

malc ·

Good points about the release dates and versions, will do.

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