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More desktop export improvements; auto-increment version; keyboard lock & more
03 December, 2024 ()
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Notes
We're continuing to refine our new desktop exporters, and this release adds some more improvements for those. First up both desktop platforms now have a Bundle assets option. Rather than leave all your exported files in an easily browsable folder, this combines all the files in to a single file named assets.dat. It's not a zip file - it's an archive format of our own design. It is not encrypted, but this makes it harder to find your project's assets. We've been careful to design this format to have minimal performance overhead.
Other general improvements include support for Keyboard lock. This only takes effect in fullscreen mode, but allows using all keyboard keys - such as ensuring Ctrl+W does not close the browser tab, being read as a normal keypress instead. In the Properties Bar you can now set your project to auto-increment the project version on every export, e.g. 1.0.0.1, 1.0.0.2... - and to further help with identifying exports, you can now obtain the date and time the export was made from the editor.
As ever there are some bug fixes too, including a regression that caused a crash cloning objects in r417, and a fix to ensure video playback works in macOS WKWebView exports. Happy testing!
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New Additions
Keyboard plugin: support for keyboard lock
Windows WebView2/macOS WKWebView: 'Bundle assets' option
Properties Bar: 'Auto-increment version' checkbox for Project Properties
Date plugin: 'ExportTimestamp' expression
Changes
Windows WebView2: update WebView2 SDK to v1.0.2903.40
Windows WebView2: change rendering mode to try to work better with Steam Overlay
Bug Fixes
Project bar: crash cloning object types (regression r417)
macOS WKWebView: video playback not working correctly
Start page: work around Safari 18 bug that broke the 'Open' dropdown
Instances bar: not possible to move folders next to each other with drag & drop
Instances bar: tree not updating properly when UI animations are turned off
Scripting updates
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