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New template; form control improvements; bug fixes
21 July, 2020 ()
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Notes
In this release we've revised all the form controls to use a consistent set of common features. This fills in some gaps such as actions missing in one form control that all the others had, as well as adding some useful new options.
There's also a new template of a snake game you can check out. We've also added a new Touch expression to return the true compass heading (where supported), since the existing 'Alpha' value may have been relative to the device's initial direction. Advanced users may also be interested in the new 'Evaluate expression' condition, which is useful with boolean expressions like Mouse.X < 100 | Mouse.Y < 100, also providing the option to mix AND and OR with parenthesis for ordering, which is otherwise difficult to achieve with separate conditions.
Finally as ever there are more bug fixes, including fixing some more problems that came up in past releases. In particular our work to switch the minifier used by Construct has been long and very complex and has resulted in several problems along the way - but hopefully we're near the end of that now. We're aiming for a stable release soon so please test carefully and as ever let us know about any problems on the issue tracker following all the guidelines. Don't forget, as ever, we cannot investigate issues only mentioned on the forum or in a comment here - we need all the information requested on the issue tracker to be able to help you!
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Launch r208
New Additions
New 'Snake' template project on Start Page
Touch: 'CompassHeading' expression
System: 'Evaluate expression' condition
Form controls: 'Is visible' condition; 'Set visible' action toggle option
Form controls: 'Is focused' condition; set focused/unfocused actions where relevant
Form controls: 'Is enabled' condition
Form controls: 'Set attribute' and 'Remove attribute' actions
Text Input: 'Set max length' action, 'MaxLength' expression
Text Input: 'Append text' action
Bug Fixes
Minified exports not working (regression in r207)
Android builds with Google Play plugin not working (regression in r206)
Animations editor: selected colors not being restored properly after closing and re opening the editor (regression r198)
Timelines & tweens: possible runtime crash when loading state from JSON
Some editor dialog buttons not working on some touchscreen devices
Layout view: 'Parallax in editor' not working correctly with Text objects
SDK updates
Add IPluginInfo methods SetAndroidXEnabled(), SetGooglePlayServicesEnabled() to configure Cordova Android exports
Scripting updates
Text Input maxLength setter/getter
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