Gideros 2017.4.1 Available Now!

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We are pleased to announce that Gideros 2017.4.1 is now available.

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Enhancements
Support alpha only textures for fonts to reduce memory requirement
Switch to freetype 2.7.1 to improve font rendering
Allow numerical value for TTFont smoothing
Propagate mouse buttons into touch events and add modifiers
Use VBO more wisely
Add a method to control VBO usage (Shader.enableVBO())
gdrbridge now accepts a port in addition to ip in play command

Gideros Studio
Sort content of .gproj file to ease git/svn merging

Export system
Do not encrypt mp3 on iOS and android (background player)

WinRT/UWP
WinRT export is now XAML based
Support pubcenter ads (microsoft advertising)
Plugin scripts for all supported plugins
Show/Hide virtual keyboard on winrt

HTML5
Player mode support
Allow to post gideros events from javascript side
Implement getLanguage()
Allow packed and original versions: tradeoff between size and memory requirements
Allow unencrypted but host locked scripts to share the same key
Display app errors in HTML

Plugins
Media: Add 'getFile' and 'saveFile' methods for desktop
Require: Add support for 2.1 screens

Fixes
Plugin/Camera: Fix cleanup for iOS
Plugin/Microphone: fix initialisation on Android

totebo

The new font rendering is AMAZING. I've always loved clean user interfaces, and with even more crisp and clear fonts I now have a lot more control.

keszegh

zerobrane studio does not run my project in this version. did something change with gdrbridge etc?

hgy29

Nothing changed about gdrbridge specifically, let me check how it behaves from command line

MobAmuse

Nice! ...donated.

hgy29

Found the issue with gdrbridge: new html5 web player ports conflicts with gdrdeamon. I'll fix it.

keszegh

@hgy29, you see, you should've taken me seriously when i mentioned this bug in the beta. : )

hgy29

Yes, obviously! But holidays made me forget this detail

HubertRonald

Oh! I'm going to enjoy it this weekend

john26

In this release you can, for the first time, put ads in Windows Phone and Windows store apps. That's very significant for monetization on these platforms and is the first time we've supported ads (or any plugin) on WinRT.

It's taken a huge effort by @hgy29, the whole player had to be rewritten. I've heard there is good money to be made from WinRT ads so please let us know how you get on.

keszegh

altogether, i'm sure these releases contain a lot of work by many people, but by my experience indeed @hgy29 is one that has to be thanked for many of the new features and maintenance.
thanks again for all the people who keep working on gideros core.

HubertRonald

In this release you can, for the first time, put ads in Windows Phone and Windows store apps.

Hi @john26 I suppose that it's in this path: Gideros Studio/All Plugins/ads/source/WinRT/Ads ... right?

A stupid question too?
I know recently there is visual studio for mac (not VS code) so is possible make an windows phone app or windows app with it... i haven't much experience with this platform... so thank for any feedback.

Also +1 as @keszegh said: "thanks again for all the people who keep working on gideros core."

john26

I think you simply choose the pubcenter plugin when you export and the appropriate files will be copied

hgy29

We've just released the first bugfix release for 2017.4, please upgrade to 2017.4.1 for the fixed version.

Here are the changes:
* fix sound not playing on Android/x86
* fix gdrbridge/gdrdeamon not working
* Use VBO more wisely : better performances in some cases
* Add a method to control VBO usage (Shader.enableVBO())
* Improve getFile/saveFile in media plugin for QT
* gdrbridge now accepts a port in addition to ip in play command

Thanks for using gideros, and thanks to those who reported the bugs and helped fixing them.

keszegh

thanks for correcting all my issues.

MobAmuse

Superb!

talis

Thanks again for everyone who contributed for this release.
=D>

HubertRonald

Hi folks

When I exported my project from Gideros to Android Studio automatically I got the next error:

Error:(661, 41) error: package IMarketBillingService does not exist

So I added to my app gradle this

sourceSets { main { aidl.srcDirs = ['src'] } }

and I fixed the above error but I get a new problem :-? :

Error:(19) couldn't find import for class com.android.vending.licensing.ILicenseResultListener

Well I tried to do the following:
Clean project -> Rebuild Project
(Build located in the toolbar)

Without any success...
Somebody's had the same problem that me or maybe you've some idea like fix it... Any feedback thanks

hgy29

@HubertRonald, it looks like you tried to use Google Licensing plugin, but that one doesn't work automatically despite the ability to select it. @Sinistersoft and I attempted to convert it to new plugin system without much luck so far.

It looks like this plugin is using deprecated API and I don't know yet how to upgrade it. Any help would be welcome.

I reckon we should disable it until it actually works.

HubertRonald

@hgy29 Thank for your reply, I'm sure after I gonna try with more patiently the above

keszegh

@hgy29, how can we get the modifiers for the mouse events? is it documented in the reference?

EDIT: i've found that it's at event.touch.modifiers but it should be documented nevertheless.