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Lots of new additions, changes and fixes
15 January, 2018 ()
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We have a big release for you today! Firstly we've added some new features like accessing the video source size, a new TypedKey expression, and a couple of other changes. We've also updated our Physics engine to a recent asm.js build and fixed a fairly long-standing bug with minifying projects using the Physics behavior.
Amongst several other changes, one of the more notable ones is that we've rewritten the text wrapping engine for the editor. This handles word wrap for both Text and SpriteFont. The code was pretty old and inflexible and was going to prevent us from adding new features, so we've updated it with a new and more powerful engine. It's designed to be pixel-perfect identical to the old engine, so in theory there shouldn't be any visible differences - but if you do spot anything off with Text or SpriteFont in this release, let us know.
We also released a beta of a desktop build of Construct 3, with features like saving to project folders. We've been fixing some issues with the desktop version. While this release fixes a couple of issues, we have some more fixes that will need a new desktop build release to resolve, so watch that thread for an update shortly.
Finally we're keeping a keen eye on Construct 3's reliability and are closing off some possibly rarer crashes that could happen in some circumstances. Hopefully this will make sure Construct 3 stays reliable even during long sessions.
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New Additions
Video plugin: VideoWidth and VideoHeight expressions
Keyboard: new TypedKey expression, returning the character that would have been typed (including case, accents etc.)
Parameters dialog: pressing Enter with an unchosen object parameter now clicks the button
Animations editor: add drag and drop functionality to sort image points
Changes
New editor text wrapping engine
Physics: updated Box2D to a recent build of v2.3.1
Constant event variables are no longer forced uppercase
Facebook plugin: remove name, caption, description and parameters from 'Prompt to share' actions since they were removed from the Facebook API
Event Sheet View: when searching for an object, matches beginning with the search term are shown first
Saved JSON files are now beautified by default, which makes it easier to use them with source control
Animations editor: remove toolbar from image points pane
Bug Fixes
Physics broken on minified export
Desktop build: open web URLs in the system browser instead of a new app window
Error loading savegame if an instance variable was set to NaN
Opening projects with bundled addons may not have shown all install prompts
Event Sheet View: don't unselect events when clicking scroll bar
Properties Bar: properly restore UI state when showing project, layout and layer properties
Possible crash when selecting an object from the project bar with no related layout and no properties bar visible
Possible crash when selecting collision polygon vertices in the image editor
Possible crash when closing external software opened from the image editor
Possible crash when updating the icons of object types
Possible crash when importing audio files with no changes produced
Possible crash when closing array/dictionary editor
Crash when undoing a property change of a layer which is overridden
SDK updates
Allow any color CSS string to be passed to IWebGLText.SetColor()
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