release-0.12.0-rc3 (Mac fix)

Changelog

• Allows building and running for Macs

How to Install

• Windows No Windows build for this tag, see RC2.
• Debian Linux users can find wxLauncher as freespace2-launcher-wxlauncher on Wheezy and Jesse. Please be aware of the version that is packaged may be an older version that has bugs that are fixed in more recent versions.
• Arch Linux users can find us as wxLauncher in the AUR. Please be aware of the version that is packaged may be an older version that has bugs that are fixed in more recent versions.
• OS X users can download a .dmg disk image from this post. The debug .dmg is also available if you are having trouble.
• wxLauncher can also be built from source using the .zip or .tar.gz from this post. See the ReadMe for the build instructions.

Known issues

• If you have Diaspora (R1 Patch 4 and below), download this .zip file of updated launcher resources and unzip it into your Diaspora folder.
• Launcher does not read your current command line, so you will have to re-setup your command line before you launch FSO with wxLauncher.
• wxL currently does not properly handle cases where the default font/font size is unusually large. Some text may be cut off in such cases.
• There is an issue with the Wings of Dawn mod image's alpha channel that causes it not to appear.
• [Windows] wxLauncher does not display AA or AF controls because FSO on windows does not support the feature
• [OS X] Right after you change profiles or select an FSO executable to use, the flag checkboxes on the Advanced Settings tab will not appear until you interact with the tab somehow, such as by clicking or scrolling on the list.
• [OS X] The Activate and Info buttons don't always appear when you click on a mod. However, they are present and will work if you click on the space where they should be.
• [OS X] On Lion, wxL's list of resolutions may include reasonable-sounding resolutions that do not appear in System Preferences >> Displays (such as 640x480), as well as unusual/odd resolutions, such as 840x524
• [OS X] With a debug build, you get a wxWidgets Debug Alert that says among other things
  can't set default encoding to wxFONTENCODING_DEFAULT
• [OS X] Cannot be closed with Cmd+Q or the title bar dropdown, need to use the red close button or right-click on the Dock icon.

Better joystick support and other things

Changelog

• The bottom buttons should not disappear for no reason (though they will still disappear if your screen has too few pixels vertically)
• Better utilize SDL when handling joysticks
• Handle Haptic joysticks
• Handles new FSO build varitions (AVX, 64bit, FastDbg)
• Support both python 2.7 and >3.3 in the scripts
• Refactor a large part of the scripts to make them easier to follow
• Linux install desktop icon
• Windows Updated to wxWidgets 3.1.0
• Windows Release version built using VS2015
• Various other tweaks

How to Install

• Windows users can download the .exe installer from this post.
• Debian Linux users can find wxLauncher as freespace2-launcher-wxlauncher on Wheezy and Jesse. Please be aware of the version that is packaged may be an older version that has bugs that are fixed in more recent versions.
• Arch Linux users can find us as wxLauncher in the AUR. Please be aware of the version that is packaged may be an older version that has bugs that are fixed in more recent versions.
• OS X users can download a .dmg disk image from this post. The debug .dmg is also available if you are having trouble.
• wxLauncher can also be built from source using the .zip or .tar.gz from this post. See the ReadMe for the build instructions.

Known issues

• If you have Diaspora (R1 Patch 4 and below), download this .zip file of updated launcher resources and unzip it into your Diaspora folder.
• Launcher does not read your current command line, so you will have to re-setup your command line before you launch FSO with wxLauncher.
• wxL currently does not properly handle cases where the default font/font size is unusually large. Some text may be cut off in such cases.
• There is an issue with the Wings of Dawn mod image's alpha channel that causes it not to appear.
• [Windows] wxLauncher does not display AA or AF controls because FSO on windows does not support the feature
• [OS X] Right after you change profiles or select an FSO executable to use, the flag checkboxes on the Advanced Settings tab will not appear until you interact with the tab somehow, such as by clicking or scrolling on the list.
• [OS X] The Activate and Info buttons don't always appear when you click on a mod. However, they are present and will work if you click on the space where they should be.
• [OS X] On Lion, wxL's list of resolutions may include reasonable-sounding resolutions that do not appear in System Preferences >> Displays (such as 640x480), as well as unusual/odd resolutions, such as 840x524
• [OS X] With a debug build, you get a wxWidgets Debug Alert that says among other things
  can't set default encoding to wxFONTENCODING_DEFAULT

release-0.11.0

Changelog

• Rebuild of Linux .ico files. Hopefully less corruption in the icon
• support for Python 3 in the scripts
• Fix joystick indexing
• Various other tweaks

How to Install

• Windows users can download the .exe installer from this post.
• Debian Linux users can find wxLauncher as freespace2-launcher-wxlauncher on Wheezy and Jesse. Please be aware of the version that is packaged may be an older version that has bugs that are fixed in more recent versions.
• Arch Linux users can find us as wxLauncher in the AUR. Please be aware of the version that is packaged may be an older version that has bugs that are fixed in more recent versions.
• OS X users can download a .dmg disk image from this post. The debug .dmg is also available if you are having trouble.
• wxLauncher can also be built from source using the .zip or .tar.gz from this post. See the ReadMe for the build instructions.

Known issues

• If you have Diaspora (R1 Patch 4 and below), download this .zip file of updated launcher resources and unzip it into your Diaspora folder.
• Launcher does not read your current command line, so you will have to re-setup your command line before you launch FSO with wxLauncher.
• wxL currently does not properly handle cases where the default font/font size is unusually large. Some text may be cut off in such cases.
• There is an issue with the Wings of Dawn mod image's alpha channel that causes it not to appear.
• [Windows] wxLauncher does not display AA or AF controls because FSO on windows does not support the feature
• [OS X] Right after you change profiles or select an FSO executable to use, the flag checkboxes on the Advanced Settings tab will not appear until you interact with the tab somehow, such as by clicking or scrolling on the list.
• [OS X] The Activate and Info buttons don't always appear when you click on a mod. However, they are present and will work if you click on the space where they should be.
• [OS X] On Lion, wxL's list of resolutions may include reasonable-sounding resolutions that do not appear in System Preferences >> Displays (such as 640x480), as well as unusual/odd resolutions, such as 840x524
• [OS X] With a debug build, you get a wxWidgets Debug Alert that says among other things
  can't set default encoding to wxFONTENCODING_DEFAULT

Fix registry location for windows

Changelog

• Fix the location of the virtualized registry writing

How to Install

• Windows users can download the .exe installer from this post.
• Debian Linux users can find wxLauncher as freespace2-launcher-wxlauncher on Wheezy and Jesse. Please be aware of the version that is packaged may be an older version that has bugs that are fixed in more recent versions.
• Arch Linux users can find us as wxLauncher in the AUR. Please be aware of the version that is packaged may be an older version that has bugs that are fixed in more recent versions.
• OS X users can download a .dmg disk image from this post. The debug .dmg is also available if you are having trouble.
• wxLauncher can also be built from source using the .zip or .tar.gz from this post. See the ReadMe for the build instructions.

Known issues

• If you have Diaspora (R1 Patch 4 and below), download this .zip file of updated launcher resources and unzip it into your Diaspora folder.
• Launcher does not read your current command line, so you will have to re-setup your command line before you launch FSO with wxLauncher.
• wxL currently does not properly handle cases where the default font/font size is unusually large. Some text may be cut off in such cases.
• There is an issue with the Wings of Dawn mod image's alpha channel that causes it not to appear.
• [Windows] wxLauncher does not display AA or AF controls because FSO on windows does not support the feature
• [OS X] Right after you change profiles or select an FSO executable to use, the flag checkboxes on the Advanced Settings tab will not appear until you interact with the tab somehow, such as by clicking or scrolling on the list.
• [OS X] The Activate and Info buttons don't always appear when you click on a mod. However, they are present and will work if you click on the space where they should be.
• [OS X] On Lion, wxL's list of resolutions may include reasonable-sounding resolutions that do not appear in System Preferences >> Displays (such as 640x480), as well as unusual/odd resolutions, such as 840x524
• [OS X] With a debug build, you get a wxWidgets Debug Alert that says among other things
  can't set default encoding to wxFONTENCODING_DEFAULT

Now with SDL support and less code

Changelog

• Many thanks to m!m (@asarium) the many contributions to this release including:
• Windows - no more registry helper. Less things to go wrong!
• Windows - Support for SDL on Windows antipodes builds.
• All - Auto saving that actually works! Again!
• Detailed list is available here

How to Install

• Windows users can download the .exe installer from this post.
• Debian Linux users can find wxLauncher as freespace2-launcher-wxlauncher on Wheezy and Jesse. Please be aware of the version that is packaged may be an older version that has bugs that are fixed in more recent versions.
• Arch Linux users can find us as wxLauncher in the AUR. Please be aware of the version that is packaged may be an older version that has bugs that are fixed in more recent versions.
• OS X users can download a .dmg disk image from this post. The debug .dmg is also available if you are having trouble.
• wxLauncher can also be built from source using the .zip or .tar.gz from this post. See the ReadMe for the build instructions.

Known issues

• If you have Diaspora (R1 Patch 4 and below), download this .zip file of updated launcher resources and unzip it into your Diaspora folder.
• Launcher does not read your current command line, so you will have to re-setup your command line before you launch FSO with wxLauncher.
• wxL currently does not properly handle cases where the default font/font size is unusually large. Some text may be cut off in such cases.
• There is an issue with the Wings of Dawn mod image's alpha channel that causes it not to appear.
• [Windows] wxLauncher does not display AA or AF controls because FSO on windows does not support the feature
• [OS X] Right after you change profiles or select an FSO executable to use, the flag checkboxes on the Advanced Settings tab will not appear until you interact with the tab somehow, such as by clicking or scrolling on the list.
• [OS X] The Activate and Info buttons don't always appear when you click on a mod. However, they are present and will work if you click on the space where they should be.
• [OS X] On Lion, wxL's list of resolutions may include reasonable-sounding resolutions that do not appear in System Preferences >> Displays (such as 640x480), as well as unusual/odd resolutions, such as 840x524
• [OS X] With a debug build, you get a wxWidgets Debug Alert that says among other things
  can't set default encoding to wxFONTENCODING_DEFAULT

Better support for wxWidgets 3.0 on Linux and OpenALSoft

Changelog

• Many thanks to @onlyjob for help with getting wxLauncher packaged on Debian Jessie and for improving our support for wxWidgets 3.0 with GCC (#117) and OpenALSoft (#118).
• Detailed list is available here

How to Install

• Windows users can download the .exe installer from this post.
• Debian Linux users can find wxLauncher as freespace2-launcher-wxlauncher on Wheezy and Jesse. Please be aware of the version that is packaged may be an older version that has bugs that are fixed in more recent versions.
• Arch Linux users can find us as wxLauncher in the AUR. Please be aware of the version that is packaged may be an older version that has bugs that are fixed in more recent versions.
• OS X users can download a .dmg disk image from this post. The debug .dmg is also available if you are having trouble.
• wxLauncher can also be built from source using the .zip or .tar.gz from this post. See the ReadMe for the build instructions.

Known issues

• If you have Diaspora (R1 Patch 4 and below), download this .zip file of updated launcher resources and unzip it into your Diaspora folder.
• Launcher does not read your current command line, so you will have to re-setup your command line before you launch FSO with wxLauncher.
• wxL currently does not properly handle cases where the default font/font size is unusually large. Some text may be cut off in such cases.
• There is an issue with the Wings of Dawn mod image's alpha channel that causes it not to appear.
• [Windows] wxLauncher does not display AA or AF controls because FSO on windows does not support the feature
• [OS X] Right after you change profiles or select an FSO executable to use, the flag checkboxes on the Advanced Settings tab will not appear until you interact with the tab somehow, such as by clicking or scrolling on the list.
• [OS X] The Activate and Info buttons don't always appear when you click on a mod. However, they are present and will work if you click on the space where they should be.
• [OS X] On Lion, wxL's list of resolutions may include reasonable-sounding resolutions that do not appear in System Preferences >> Displays (such as 640x480), as well as unusual/odd resolutions, such as 840x524
• [OS X] With a debug build, you get a wxWidgets Debug Alert that says among other things
  can't set default encoding to wxFONTENCODING_DEFAULT

Multiple wxWdigets version support added

A quick release with support for wxWidgets 2.8, wxWidgets 2.8 STL, and wxWidgets 3.0.

.dmg files are compressed apps for OS X. Extract and run.
.exe is a Windows Installer

Linux users can build from the source archives. Some Linux distributions have wxLauncher in there package managers.

Reuploaded windows installers because they were not compiled with Speech enabled.

release-0.9.4

wxLauncher 0.9.4 beta has been released. You can download it from at the end of this post.

(0.9.2 and 0.9.3 were Limited Collector's Editions Diaspora R1 launcher versions.) If you have Diaspora (R1 Patch 4 and below), download the .zip of updated launcher resources from the Downloads section in the release post.

One important change is that FRED launching can now be toggled by pressing F3. Why F3? Because it's already accepted as a hidden "cheat code" for modders, thanks to the F3 Lab in FSO. Now F3 will access modding features in both FSO and wxL.

Summary of changes since 0.9.1

Partial support for extended mod.ini format! (details here

• Mod-customizable features: (both TCs and mods)
  • Images for both the mod list and the mod info dialog
  • Minimum resolution
  • Recommended lighting (overriding the "Baseline recommended" preset)
• Skin system: (TCs only)
  • Window title and icon
  • Welcome page's banner and text below banner
  • Default mod list/mod info dialog images for mods that don't include images
  • Status bar icons and similar big icons (warning, info, etc.)
  • News source (currently HLP or Diaspora)

Mods page:

• Mod list is now sorted alphabetically
• Default image provided for mods that don't include an image of their own

Basic Settings page:

• "Enable EFX" checkbox now appears when the selected playback device supports EFX :nervous:
• Speech voices are now listed in the correct order
• Connection settings read from profile are now displayed correctly

Advanced Settings page:

• "All features on" flag set has been restored

Other changes:

• New splash image (special thanks to mjn.mixael for making this)
• FRED launching can now be toggled with F3
• Faster startup thanks to more efficient mod.ini search
• Assorted bug fixes and text revisions

Linux only:

• RESOURCES_PATH can now be user-specified (special thanks to Firartix for identifying and fixing this)
• cmdline_fso.cfg is now written to ~/.fs2_open/data/ instead of FS2/TC folder

The wxLauncher Team would like to thank Axem, mjn.mixael, niffiwan, swashmebuckle, and Yarn for helping test 0.9.4.

I (Iss Mneur), personally would also like to thank jg18 for his hard work on getting this release out. I know it would not have happened without him.