v0.6.2

[timothyschoen]

A new version with PlugData, finally!

Thanks to everyone who's helped me with this one, I'm gonna try to name everyone but it's becoming increasingly more difficult. Here we go:

@chee, @JoshuaACNewman, @60-hz, @polarity, @Wasted-Audio , MZY-CBX, JaqueArse, @jaffasplaffa, @hellocatfood, @hAK-klang, daniellumertz, DSB, fredeic, @vasilymilovidov, @hatitrain, BonefishSam

And thanks to @kreth608 for adding new documentation to this release.

Highlights:

• UI improvements:
  • New welcome screen when there is no patch open
  • Better tab behaviour, always shows patch name and saves toolbar space
  • Better place in UI for documentation and automation panel selection
  • Some statusbar icons have been moved to the settings popup
• New logo made by @JoshuaACNewman
• Updated to ELSE rc4, with new [datetime] object and more
• Improved colour theming options thanks to @chee
• Hold alt to see object indices
• Encapsulate action: select a group of objects and hit cmd+shift+e to encapsulate into subpatch
• Many, many bugfixes

Other features:

• Destructive options in settings dialog now have a confirmation popup
• Basic support for non-latin characters in messages, comments and objects (better support throughout whole GUI coming soon)
• Now remembers last opened tab in DAW
• Improved DAW audio settings panel
• Remembers your zoom level across restarts
• Added "Move to back" feature
• ELSE objects that work now: [oscope~], [function], [canvas.*], [mtx.ctl]
• Add to path button in Deken
• Shift + drag can now also disconnect box from cords
• Can now show a [garray] and [array define] content in a separate window
• Improved documentation panel icon
• Hitting esc on an empty objects deletes the object
• Object name is now shown in parameters panel
• Comments are now transparent when editing
• Can now double-click toolbar to maximise

Bugfixes:

• Changes to messages can now be undone
• Fixed maximise behaviour on Linux
• Correct behaviour for [key], [keyup] and [keyname]
• Fixed various hradio/vradio bugs
• Fixed crash when dragging number box inside a graph
• Fixed issue where dragging a numbox would change other UI objects
• Fixed object creation offset in Renoise
• Fixed "consistency check failure" bug when graph name is empty
• Fixed crash when creating many segmented connections
• Fixed opening files from OS when there is a space in the name
• Fixed scrolling issue with drawables and mousepad
• Fixed a deadlock in DAW version
• Fixed phaser~ crash
• Greyed out automation add button when locked
• Fixed crashes when dragging parameters below zero in [hradio] and [garray]
• Fixed min/max not working for numboxes
• Added option to use non-native file dialog. Some DAW's, like Ardour, don't like native file dialogs
• Fixed default themes for [vslider] and [hslider] (instead of [vsl]/[hsl])
• Fixed problem with Deken packages not showing up
• Fixed array crashes
• Fixed crash when clicking reconnect button
• Text editors automatically close when clicking inlets/outlets
• Can click on subpathers in temporary lock to open
• Fixed several autocomplete bugs
• Fixed mousepad issues
• Fixed pitchbend issues
• Fixed graph selection problem
• Alignment line for straightened connection cords now appear next to the connection
• Fixed crash when double-clicking the close button
• Fixed initialisation issues on Windows
• Fixed [text define] editor issues on Windows
• Fixed bug in [clone] object
• Fixed maximising behaviour on Linux

Other:

• [cnv] no longer intercepts mouseclicks
• Uses Pd shortcuts by default now, there is an option in settings to revert to Max shortcuts
  Note: If you use and AZERTY keyboard, you have to remap you keyboard shortcuts for them to work, or use Max shortcuts instead.

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This discussion was created from the release v0.6.2.

[alfonso73]

Great advancements!