4.2.0-BETA1 Preview of form support, many i18n fixes, multi-window

[davetcc]

NOTE: This is a BETA release and should only be used for testing and evaluation.

Note that ideally this should be used with the latest tcMenuLib from master, although it should work for most situations with 4.1.x. Some of the most notable improvements in 4.2 are as follows:

• Along with the release of the mobile and user-centric remote control UI (Embed Control) this release has basic form editing support to allow for simple creation of grid-based layouts for the UI.
• This is the first release to directly support PicoSDK without Arduino. It is now possible to directly use PicoSDK with CMake. There is even an example menu. See https://github.com/davetcc/tccLibs for more details.
• Fixes and improvements to the custom/no display plugins to ensure they work in all scenarios
• What was the standalone Java Embed Control version is now combined into tcMenu Designer. This is because it is now more of a developer tool given that we'd expect most to use the store packaged version.
• Major fixes for the i18n support
• File -> New now opens a completely new window, allowing for more than one project to be loaded at once.

As this is a beta release, it will gradually show up on platforms as it is ready. MacOS is urgent and will be available almost immediately.

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This discussion was created from the release 4.2.0-BETA1 Preview of form support, many i18n fixes, multi-window.

[davetcc]

It is released now for Windows and MacOS, given it's a BETA I'll build it for Linux if anyone needs it - ping here if you want a Linux build and I'll spin up the VM and build it.

[davetcc]

Intended to be used with the mainline version of tcMenuLib but should mostly work with 4.1.2.

[davetcc]

this should also fix the MacOS crash on accessing the file open dialog after upgrading to MacOS Sonoma.

[davetcc]

The last BETA version has just dropped, if this works well for others, and my testing passes, I will build a release.

[davetcc]

4.2 is now pretty much ready for release and contains a lot of fixes and enhancements, mainly incremental. You can expect it to drop in the next week or so. I think a few people have already been using the BETA release.

The UI will probably look quite different when you first use it as the font size is configurable now from the global settings, the default is a little larger than it used to be, but can be easily changed to whatever you're comfortable with. The bitmap exporter has also been completely reworked and should now work properly.

[davetcc]

closed, beta 4.2 has now been released.