Release notes

This page contains a list of all previous Gideros Studio release notes.

Release notes (2012.09.10)

• Feature: SQLite3 plugin for Android (look at reference manual for the limitations)
• Feature: Object class as root of all classes
• Change: While exporting, Lua bytecodes are not debug stripped to get better error descriptions
• Change: All events are dispatched at main Lua thread (main Lua corotuine).
• Bug: (iOS) AlertDialog and TextInputDialog can crash while GC
• Bug: (iOS) Sound doesn't resume when application switching (double-click Home button) is used
• Bug: postInit function isn't called for inner classes

Release notes (2012.09.9)

• Feature: Lua file encryption is now optional
• Feature: Libraries (libgideros.a and libgideros.so) are also exported when "Export assets only" is selected.

Release notes (2012.09.7)

• Feature: Native BMFonts
• Feature: TTFont caching
• Feature: Font kerning
• Feature: Font metrics
• Feature: Lua file encryption (for indie and professional license holders)
• Feature: GameKit events are always dispatched at main thread.
• Feature: postInit function for classes
• Bug: Using API Level 9 results in crashing on Android 2.2.

Release notes (2012.09.6)

• Feature: box2d contact implementation
• Feature: Android APK Expansion Files
• Feature: New functions b2.Body:getWorldPoint, b2.Body:getWorldVector, b2.Body:getLocalPoint, b2.Body:getLocalVector
• Feature: New functions b2.Body:setFixedRotation, b2.Body:isFixedRotation, b2.Body:setBullet, b2.Body:isBullet, b2.Body:setSleepingAllowed, b2.Body:isSleepingAllowed
• Bug: Wav file handle remains open

Release notes (2012.09.5)

• Bug: Sometimes crashing occurs when same sound file is loaded multiple times.

Release notes (2012.09.4)

• Feature: Loading of 8-bit PCM wav files

Release notes (2012.09.3)

• Feature: New sound API implementation
• Feature: Set/get pitch of sound channels
• Feature: Pause/resume of sound channels
• Feature: (iOS) Support for “play along” style apps where audio from other apps mixes with your audio
• Feature: Automatic reuse of in-memory sound objects
• Feature: Rope joints
• Feature: Unrounded mouse/touch coordinates
• Bug: (Android) If lock screen is disabled, application doesn't resume after lock/unlock.
• Bug: (iOS) Sound doesn't resume after a phone call
• Bug: Indices can shift while using b2.World:rayCast function
• (Android) Updated to Android SDK 4.2 (target 17)
• (Android) Updated to NDK 8c

Release notes (2012.09.2)

• Feature: Application:getScreenDensity function
• Feature: setAlpha/setColorTransform effects Meshes with color vertices
• Feature: Optimized Touch/Mouse/Key events.
• Bug: If a listener is removed within a listener, indices can shift.
• Improvement: Bounds of a TextureRegion of a TexturePack can have rounding errors.

Release notes (2012.09.1)

• Renamed Mesh:*Buffer functions to Mesh:*Array
• Bug: If a Mesh object is using color vertices, then it may effect color of the other sprites
• Updated the documentation.

Release notes (2012.09)

• Feature: (Android) Google in-app billing
• Feature: (iOS) Facebook
• Feature: Mesh structure
• Feature: Desktop player can generate touch events
• Feature: Event.APPLICATION_BACKGROUND and Event.APPLICATION_FOREGROUND events
• Feature: New iPhone 5 resolutions
• Bug: If a Lua error occurs in key events, Gideros cannot catch it.
• Bug: Autorotation fix for iOS 6
• Bug: (Android) Application shouldn't resume at lockscreen
• Bug: (iOS) iAd plugin can crash at launch.

Release notes (2012.08.4)

• Bug: Sprite:getBounds() function returns wrong values when there are MovieClip objects in the hierarchy

Release notes (2012.08.3)

• Feature: Application:getTextureMemoryUsage() function
• Feature: extended the plugin system
• Bug: Sprite:getBounds() function returns wrong values when there are more than 2 level of hierarchies and rotation
• Bug: gdrbridge cannot connect to deamon after some many requests
• Bug: accessing Gideros functions from inside a coroutine crashes

Release notes (2012.08.2)

• Feature: Bitmap:setTexture, Bitmap:setTextureRegion, TextureRegion:setRegion, TextureRegion:getRegion functions
• Feature: GameKit:loadScores function (thanks to Andy Bower)
• Feature: Application:getApiVersion function
• Feature: Sound:play(..., math.huge) loops forever
• Bug: addChildAt indices starts at 0 (should start at 1)
• Bug: Xperia PLAY keys doesn't work
• Bug: Event objects shouldn't store target object internally (late GC of target object)
• Bug: os.remove and os.rename doesn't transform path names
• Bug: On iOS, textures are deleted on main thread (should be deleted on rendering thread)

Release notes (2012.8.1)

• Bug: LLVM-GCC produces buggy code with FreeType library. Moved to Xcode 4.4.1 with Clang 4.0
• Bug: gdrdeamon can crash with some .gproj files
• Bug: lpeg.dylib has wrong library path
• Bug: addEventListener(type, func, nil) doesn't work correctly

Release notes (2012.8)

• Feature: iAd plugin
• Feature: LuaFileSystem plugin
• Feature: LPeg plugin
• Feature: Move to Android SDK 4.1 (target 16)
• Feature: Drop support for Xcode 3 and move to Xcode 4
• Feature: Universal applications
• Feature: Native AlertDialog implementation
• Feature: Native TextInputDialog implementation
• Feature: Support Xperia Play keys
• Feature: Command line tools to control player within 3rd party applications
• Feature: collectgarbage() is called at Activity.onLowMemory on Android
• Feature: Allow creation of Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Geolocation classes and don't create accelerometer, gyroscope and geolocation variables automatically
• Feature: Rotated/flipped tile support
• Feature: Timer.delayedCall returns created Timer object
• Bug: application:openUrl shows incorrect url in windows player
• Bug: in flurry plugin, timed parameter of logEvent should be negated
• Bug: in Game Kit plugin, at showLeaderboard function, don't update category if category is nil
• Bug: On iOS, setting 30fps doesn't work as expected on heavy loaded applications
• Bug: On Android, UrlLoader crashes when method is GET and headers are given
• Bug: recursive __gc calls should be prevented because destroying two Box2D objects at the same time can cause crash
• Bug: On iOS, music doesn't continue after a phone call
• Bug: On Android, paused/suspended applications consumes %1-%5 CPU
• Bug: Parent classes and inherited classes should have the same self reference

Release notes (2012.2.2.2)

• Feature: TTFont now accepts optional filtering parameter
• Bug: (Android Player) TTFont loading error
• Bug: (Android) TextField display error
• Bug: (iOS) Avoid of 1 frame white screen at the beginning of application
• Bug: MovieClip may crash if wrong parameter is given
• Bug: TTFont's letter spacing is calculated wrong when automatic screen scaling is enabled

Release notes (2012.2.2.1)

• Feature: Added LuaSocket as a plugin
• Feature: Added support for headers on UrlLoader
• Feature: Added HTTPS support for UrlLoaders
• Feature: Added new b2.Body:setAwake function
• Feature: Added b2.Body:setGravityScale and b2.Body:getGravityScale functions
• Feature: Added wraping mode (repeat or clamp) for Texures
• Feature: Added "redMultiplier", "greenMultiplier", "blueMultiplier", "alphaMultiplier" to Sprite:get/Sprite:set functions
• Feature: Bigger font for displaying IP addresses on player
• Feature: (Desktop Player) %25 zoom
• Bug: (Android) OpenGL context lost on Android when some of the devices goes to sleep
• Bug: Fixed "functions are not GCed when they refer to self as an upvalue"
• Bug: Texture packer crashes when a texture bigger than 2048x2048 is generated.
• Bug: (iOS) Black screen or wrong orientation when returned from Game Center modal window
• Bug: Sprite:getMatrix() returns the values M12 and M21 swapped
• Bug: TileMap returns 0 for getWidth() and getHeight()

Release notes (2012.2.2)

• Incompatibility: Removed URLLoader class. UrlLoader should be used instead.
• Feature: (Android) Plugins are now supported
• Feature: (Android) Keyboard support
• Feature: (iOS) Store Kit (in-app purchase) plugin
• Feature: (IDE) Now it's possible to enable/disable automatic execution of Lua files from IDE
• Feature: (Android) Android platform now supports require function
• Feature: (iOS) lua_gc() function is called automatically when there is memory warning
• Feature: Added new Application:setScaleMode function
• Feature: Added new Application:getScaleMode function
• Feature: Added new Application:setLogicalDimensions function
• Feature: Added new Application:setFps function
• Feature: Added new Application:getFps function
• Feature: Added new Application:exit function
• Feature: Added b2.ChainShape class
• Feature: Added new b2.World:rayCast function
• Feature: Added new b2.Body:getLinearDamping
• Feature: Added new b2.Body:setLinearDamping
• Feature: Added new b2.Body:getAngularDamping
• Feature: Added new b2.Body:setAngularDamping
• Feature: Added new b2.Body:getWorldCenter
• Feature: Added new b2.Body:getLocalCenter
• Feature: Added new b2.Body:getMass
• Feature: Added new b2.Body:getInertia
• Feature: New UrlLoader class with GET, POST, PUT and DELETE HTTP methods
• Bug: (iOS) With the new Xcode, armv6 is not enabled by default. Changed ARCHS_STANDARD_32_BIT to "armv6 armv7" to support armv6 always.
• Bug: "out of memory" error is fixed
• Bug: (Android) Fixed the 30fps bug on Android.
• Bug: Timer.pauseAll() continued to effect after restarting and application.
• Bug: (IDE) CMD-f bringed up Find but if already open didn't have focus
• Bug: Exported Eclipse project crashed with ADT 17. Now gideros.jar is exported by default.

Release notes (2012.2.1)

• Feature: Now whole rendering engine uses premultiplied alpha internally. This fixes some rendering issues like dark borders.
• Feature: Added screen blending mode. You can use screen blending mode with Sprite:setBlendMode(Sprite.SCREEN)
• Feature: Added SQLite3 plugin for iOS and Desktop platforms
• Feature: Added Event.COMPLETE event for MovieClip
• Feature: (Android) Migrated to android-8 on Android NDK
• Feature: (Android) AndroidManifest.xml is now more compatible with different kinds of resolutions (added <support-screen> tag)
• Feature: (Texture packer) Added extrude option to pad the borders of regions with non-transparent pixels
• Bug: (Mac) Now Cmd+s and Cmd+r bring the search or replace window to the front instantly, if it's already open behind
• Bug: Fixed the lagginess of Gideros Studio on some machines
• Bug: Fixed rendering issues of tile maps. See http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/535/tiledmap-small-lines-appeared-when-dragging-map#Item_1
• Bug: (Android) Although require function is not supported officially, Android incompatibility of require function is fixed.
• Bug: (Android) Fixed ANR dialog issue. See http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/505/android-app-anr-when-starting.#Item_1
• Bug: (Player) Fixed memory leak of textures

Release notes (2012.2)

• Too long to write here. See Gideros Studio 2012.2 Release Notes for a complete list.

Release notes (2011.6.2)

• (mac) Fixed dynamic library load paths (thanks Derek)

Release notes (2011.6.1)

• Added application.getAccelerometer() function.
• Added export Xcode project functionality.

Release notes (2011.6)

First release after a 1.5 year development period. Main features include:

• Complete IDE for mobile development
• iPhone and iPad support (Android support underway)
• Box2D
• AS3-like programming language
• 2D scene graph
• Automatic texture packs
• Audio playback
• Font creator