Gideros 2017.2 is released

hgy29

We're proud to announce that the first Gideros release of 2017 is finally out.
Grab it now from GitHub: http://giderosmobile.com/donate&download

Improvements
Generate Java stack trace from lua crashes for bug reports on android
Differentiate user plugins from standard plugins
Avoid showing passwords in plaintext during export
Improve Facebook plugin integration on iOS
Add show button on export process window to easily navigate to the output directory
Add getSize() API on Sprite

Bugfixes
Fix key handling crash on iOS
Fix camera plugin for iOS
Fix Movieclip reference holding
Detach children from parent when parent is destroyed

Please note that this version was built with different scripts than older versions. It shall be more complete (ability to export MacOS desktop projects from Windows, etc), but there is still the possibility that something is missing...

Hope you'll like it

mertocan

Well done!

SinisterSoft

Anyone exporting an apk will find this useful too...
http://giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/6805/christmashelper

GiderosFan

Thank you for this new and nice working version!

SinisterSoft

btw, soon @hgy29 will be releasing his firebase plugin. I've been testing it and it's great for reporting things like crashes, remote configs, and notifications.

It needs 2017.2 or better to be installed as it goes in the new user plugins folder.

Click 'export', 'plugins' and you should see a button to reach the folder.

MobAmuse

Works great!

john26

Seems very few people (ie none) have download it :-p

https://jsfiddle.net/ar2rsawseen/n9ffvktL/

Maybe something is odd over in Github and it's not reporting downloads...?

Xman

Yes, I have tried to download it, but never succeed for days.

Xman

BTW, call Sprite.getSize may print a stack NOT ok log, do not use it until next release, sorry for this inconvenience.

hgy29

@john26, file names have changed, use this script instead: https://jsfiddle.net/n9ffvktL/7/

Xman

Any introduction for the new build scripts? Is it available on the GitHub? Does SIP still needed to be disabled?

hgy29

Yes it is on github, in scripts folder alongisde previous build scripts. It is made of several makefiles: Makefile.def, Makefile.gid, and Gid*.mk.
To use it, first customize scripts/Makefile.def.example according to your computer configuration, then launch the build from a command prompt in gideros root folder by issuing 'make -f scripts/Makefile.gid '.

Target can be empty for building everything that can be built on that platform, or be a specific target to be built, for ex: qtapp.install to build studio, html5.install to build Html5 template, android.install, to build android stuff and so on. Have a look at the content of the Makefiles to find other targets.

BUT: you need a windows machine to build windows stuff (and WinRT), and a Mac to build Mac and iOS stuff, and the makefiles heavily assume that you build mainly on windows (because thats my case)

Xman

Thanks,I'll try it later.

antix

It's interesting to see the download count decreasing like that.

keszegh

actually in the last releases the link you gave on the forum sends you straight to download, wasn't it sending you previously to the donation page first? (which was a good thing)

john26

Thanks, I've now changed the link to go through the donations page. Yes downloads seem to be decreasing from a peek in April 2016. Not sure why or indeed how accurate the Github stats are.

kussakov

Oooppps. Amazon S3 is down. No Gideros downloads until they fix it...

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/28/amazon-aws-s3-outage-is-breaking-things-for-a-lot-of-websites-and-apps/

Edit:
They fixed it I think... I can now download Gideros from Github