Processing 3.0a6
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PROCESSING 3.0a6 (REV 0233) - 25 April 2015
This is the big one! We've jettisoned PApplet as the base class so that
we can improve performance, reduce flicker, and have a better base from
which to build better, more modern graphics rendering. More of the
gory details for the PApplet/PGraphics changes can be found here:
https://github.com/processing/processing/tree/master/core
Speaking of breaking things, we're on the road to a new GUI as well:
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3072
and that means all Modes and some Tools will need to be updated:
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3080
We've also made major changes to better integrate PDE X, Tweak Mode,
and other nice features for the default "Java" Mode. These will be the
center of the changes for 3.x, which is focused on improving the editing
and debugging experience in general.
Suffice to say, this is truly an ALPHA quality release. We're pushing it
out so that we can get more people testing it. If you want something more
stable, we recommend 3.0a5 (not 2.2.1, that thing is old!)
Library/Mode/Tool authors: Please help us get 3.0 ready by getting your
code ready for 3.0! Because 2.x and 3.x contributions are separate, you
can maintain separate versions if you like (or only support 3.x). You
can also specify the earliest and latest revisions of Processing that
your code supports, so that it's only installed with the correct version.
If anything is unclear, please file an issue. I've not had time to write
up all the changes yet (and some are still in progress), but what you see
in this release is representative of where we're headed for 3.0.
[ known issues ]
The full list is here: https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/
but a few that you might be likely to run across:
+ install/remove buttons not working in the managers
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3172
+ static mode - no setup() / draw() - broken in OpenGL
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3163
+ sketch window is not placed at correct location when running a second time
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3125
[ general fixes and changes ]
+ Merge experimental into the main Java mode, move Java Mode to its own area
+ Deal with ctrl-alt-n regression
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/2979
+ Don't add a ^M to files when writing
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3014
+ Add more bulletproofing to the save process
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/2923
+ Text improvements for retina displays on OS X
+ Menu mnemonics (alt-f, etc) getting typed into the editor
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3057
+ Opening and closing preferences window prompts user to save unmodified sketch
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3074
+ Internal fixes and cleanups to TweakMode
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/2799
+ Implement line numbers in the editor
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3128
+ Run button w/ debugger shouldn't require "continue" before actually starting
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3096
+ Change how platform-specific preferences are handled
+ Auto-insert after ANTLR @SuppressWarnings({ "unused", "unchecked", "cast" })
+ "Your sketch has been modified externally" appearing on OS X
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/2852
+ Make sure the JRE downloads correctly before renaming
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/2960
+ Update build scripts for Windows and Linux to use JRE downloader Ant Task
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3059
+ Moved to Java 8 because Java 7 will be discontinued
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.html
Requires Vista SP2 (let's just say 7), OS X 10.8.3, and Ubuntu 12.04
+ Update ECJ for Java 8 change
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/R-4.4.1-201409250400/
+ Update to launch4j 3.6
http://sourceforge.net/projects/launch4j/files/launch4j-3/3.6/
[ fixed earlier, not mentioned in revisions.txt ]
+ Move import suggestion to errors console
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/2947
+ Server.stop() produces an error: java.net.SocketException: socket closed
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/74
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/2474
+ NPE when calling Client.ip() after the connection has been closed
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/2576
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/2922
[ who loves pull requests? I do. ]
+ Splash screen for Linux
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3005
+ Pressing PgDn in a code without scrollbar gives Exception
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/2990
+ Add mnemonics for menus (alt-f to open 'file')
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/51
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/2382
+ getCaretLocation() bug in syntax.im package
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/2934
+ Finish up debian package support
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/114
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/2972
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/2973
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/2974
+ Replace ColorChooser PApplets with custom Swing components
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/2975
+ Fix encodings, line endings, and mime types in the repo
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/2955
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/2978
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/2977
+ Add control for dependencies (i.e. svg needs xml), needed for export
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/109
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3010
+ Lots of Auto Format fixes
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3002
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/2540
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/1041
+ Update name of sketch in the "Recent" menu
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/2984
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3046
+ File change detection rewrite
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3048
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3070
+ Broken Windows build due to launch4j .jar not updated
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3062
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3066
+ Exported Linux sketches must be run from the sketch folder
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/1046
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3083
+ processing.net.Server only cleans up internal Clients when trying to write
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3089
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3097
+ Display download percentage when fetching contribution info
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3161
+ Recreating Client instance will cause an out-of-memory error
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/1400
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3088
+ Greek translation and new fonts
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3025
+ Show tooltip when hovering over errors
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3119
+ Fix multi-touch horizontal scrolling on OS X
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3170
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/180
+ Refactor examples manager window
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3133
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3177
+ Fix ColorChooser cursor
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3186
+ Improve Spanish localization
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3185
+ Internationalization of editor error messages and Greek translations
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3189
+ Improve internationalization and localization in Greek
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3197
+ Fix for "Probably a ++ should go here" messages
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/2956
+ Missing opening curly bracket error
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3104
+ Missing parenthesis error message
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3103
[ pulls from Joel ]
+ Add reference for installed tools and libraries to the Help menu
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/943
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/2804
+ examples.properties file missing prevents startup
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3037
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3047
+ Several new French translations
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3061
+ contributions.txt now gets deleted and recreated instead of overwritten
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3073
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/2994
+ Contrib Manager does not stop parsing contribs.txt if an error exists
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3132
+ Offer to install libraries imported libraries that are not available
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3155
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/2566
+ Make fatal errors terminate the pde
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3068
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3069
+ Java 8 method replace() used, removed
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3168
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3169
+ Closing a few unclosed BufferedReaders and InputStreams
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/2961
[ Akarshit pulls away from the pack ]
+ Rewrite preferences window to use proper layout
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/67
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/2708
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/2986
+ Find/Replace dialog changed to GroupLayout
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3190
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3131
+ Issues with cut/copy shortcuts not working
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3138
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3136
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3107
+ IllegalArgumentException when clicking between editor windows
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/2530
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3101
+ Newline after a very long line moves the visible area right
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3148
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3196
+ lerpColor() outside of setup()/draw() kills sketch
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3145
+ Use default colorMode() with lerpColor() outside setup()
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3146
+ textAlign(RIGHT) adds extra space to the right
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3078
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3028
+ rectMode() broken for createShape with JAVA2D
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3024
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3102
[ processing.core ]
+ Remove Applet as the base class.
https://github.com/processing/processing/tree/master/core
+ Replaced JOGL with LWJGL. Ongoing JOGL support is unclear and LWJGL
seems to be more consistently maintained. Unfortunately, it trades
one set of quirks for another.
+ Renamed 2x (hidpi/retina) versions of renderers to JAVA2D_2X, P3D_2X, etc.
+ add warning message when a negative textSize() is used
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3110
+ loadXxxx() methods will truly follow redirects (including http -> https)
https://github.com/processing/processing-docs/issues/218
+ noSmooth() not sticking, has to be called again inside draw()
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3113
+ Sketch window dimensions off in Java2D
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3129
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3162
+ Dragging sketch window hides it
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3092
+ size(640,360 , P3D) doesn't work properly (fixed in 3.0a5)
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/2924
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/2925
[ more contributions! ]
+ saveFrame() doesn't save opaque PNG files
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3031
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3067
+ Fixes to SVG, implement percentages and some named colors
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3205
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/2992
+ Add option to save JSON in compact form
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3202
+ Remove extra edges in sphere tessellation
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3193
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3211
+ Add exceptions for FloatList and IntList when using add() w/o enough elements
https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/3053
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3052
+ Video library is incompatible with 0233
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3114
[ processing.data ]
+ Ensure # of columns and titles lines up with Table(iterator) constructor
+ Add table header to saveTable() with HTML output
+ Remove extra spaces from HTML output
+ Make save() and write() consistent between JSONObject and JSONArray
+ Add indent=N to saveJSONObject/Array() methods
+ Add 'compact' to JSONArray (see PR for the add to JSONObject)
X Add push() and pop() to String/Int/FloatList
[ sketch ]
+ Added E2D, an experimental/enhanced renderer that draws directly
to the Graphics context without an intermediate image. This greatly
speeds up performance (especially on retina/hidpi displays), but
prevents pixel access (no save(), saveFrame(), loadPixels(), etc).
It also causes some rendering hiccups (frame rate is not as smooth),
but that's why it's experimental.
+ Remove isGL(), is2D(), is3D(), displayable() from PApplet
(these were unintentionally auto-imported from PGraphics)
+ Remove pause variable from PApplet (was not documented)
+ Added copy() to PImage (to work like get(), ala PVector)
+ Added getFontRenderContext() to PGraphics
+ Add error message when doing loadFont() on an OTF
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/2876
+ Memory usage insane increasing in 3.0a5
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3007
+ Remove set/get/removeCache() methods from PApplet, these should
have been marked //ignore in PGraphics all along
+ Fix/prevent flicker on startup
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3134
+ static mode - no setup() / draw() - broken in Java2D
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3130
+ Switch to using the EDT for launching sketch and talking to the OS
+ Roll back problematic full screen changes on OS X
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/2641