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A minor update for 0.90 and another general release with some important changes for gamepad enjoyers.
Bugfixes:
* The Lua/DinkC consoles would occasionally crash for various reasons.
* Various bugfixes for DinkLua.
New:
* The on-screen joystick should work properly with touch devices and is enabled in the relevant window. Activate it by touching on one part of the screen and then dragging in the direction you'd like to move.
* Along with the touch joystick are touch swipe gestures for some of the other controls, with the amount of fingers able to be set.
* Pressing Start + Select/Back may be used to instantly exit
* A fake keyboard key may be assigned to the left shoulder (L1) to run the corresponding key script.
* A callback viewer.
* DinkC bindings list.
* A fairly minimal special frame viewer.
* AppImages will automatically copy the ancillary data to ~/.config upon first launch if there's nothing there.
* Web builds allow you to export your save files as a zip from the file menu.
* The amount of audio channels may be specified in yedink.ini such as 1 for mono or 8 for a 7.1 system.
Changes:
* The sprite sorting algo is set in the debug menu, existing one used by default. Newer one only recommended if you're having performance problems.
* The floating info window shows the amount of vars and callbacks in use rather than that moveman stuff, and has some conveniences added.
* The ability to display 24-bit graphics while in 8-bit mode so they look like utter crap is back.
* The script window allows you to input the filename of a script for it to be executed while attached to sprite 1000. Will run main().
* The "gamepad and joystick" window has been renamed to "gamepad and touch".
* The gamepad backend has been rewritten some more to improve device autodetection, with controller input ignored for movement etc when debug mode is on.
* Debug mode may be switched on by pressing in the left stick clicker (L3), and switched off with the right (R3).
* Live changes you make to MIDI settings for the next MIDI in the audio window are visibly apparent.
* DinkLua: dink.get_truecolor() returns a bool rather than 1 or 0.
* Phoenix has updated the dinklua environment setup file to work better with Lua 5.4!
Removals:
* The help in the help menu.
* L1 will no longer run the button7 script as nobody seems to have ever used it.
* Compile-time CPU-specific optimisations.
* Some of the bundled typefaces
Notes on touch controls:
* Touch controls require your 2-in-1 tablet or whatever to send touch messages to SDL2 rather than mouse events. Some unfortunately send both.
* You may also need to switch off multi-finger gestures in your desktop environment as usually they will interfere. Even then it probably won't work too great and I don't recommend its use.
Web build:
* If you'd like your d-mod packaged up into an easily-accessible web build to place on itch.io, now's the time to ask!
Known issues:
* System MIDI output will not work for this release unless you recompile with standard SDL Mixer. It may return in a later release. Apologies to CoolSoft or Roland MT-32 users out there, but this is a library limitation meaning you'll have to contend with FluidSynth or TiMIDIty or one of the other 3 backends instead for now.
* AppImages don't bundle Gnome's libGLib meaning you'll have to install it yourself if you somehow don't already have it.
Bugfixes:
* The Lua/DinkC consoles would occasionally crash for various reasons.
* Various bugfixes for DinkLua.
New:
* The on-screen joystick should work properly with touch devices and is enabled in the relevant window. Activate it by touching on one part of the screen and then dragging in the direction you'd like to move.
* Along with the touch joystick are touch swipe gestures for some of the other controls, with the amount of fingers able to be set.
* Pressing Start + Select/Back may be used to instantly exit
* A fake keyboard key may be assigned to the left shoulder (L1) to run the corresponding key script.
* A callback viewer.
* DinkC bindings list.
* A fairly minimal special frame viewer.
* AppImages will automatically copy the ancillary data to ~/.config upon first launch if there's nothing there.
* Web builds allow you to export your save files as a zip from the file menu.
* The amount of audio channels may be specified in yedink.ini such as 1 for mono or 8 for a 7.1 system.
Changes:
* The sprite sorting algo is set in the debug menu, existing one used by default. Newer one only recommended if you're having performance problems.
* The floating info window shows the amount of vars and callbacks in use rather than that moveman stuff, and has some conveniences added.
* The ability to display 24-bit graphics while in 8-bit mode so they look like utter crap is back.
* The script window allows you to input the filename of a script for it to be executed while attached to sprite 1000. Will run main().
* The "gamepad and joystick" window has been renamed to "gamepad and touch".
* The gamepad backend has been rewritten some more to improve device autodetection, with controller input ignored for movement etc when debug mode is on.
* Debug mode may be switched on by pressing in the left stick clicker (L3), and switched off with the right (R3).
* Live changes you make to MIDI settings for the next MIDI in the audio window are visibly apparent.
* DinkLua: dink.get_truecolor() returns a bool rather than 1 or 0.
* Phoenix has updated the dinklua environment setup file to work better with Lua 5.4!
Removals:
* The help in the help menu.
* L1 will no longer run the button7 script as nobody seems to have ever used it.
* Compile-time CPU-specific optimisations.
* Some of the bundled typefaces
Notes on touch controls:
* Touch controls require your 2-in-1 tablet or whatever to send touch messages to SDL2 rather than mouse events. Some unfortunately send both.
* You may also need to switch off multi-finger gestures in your desktop environment as usually they will interfere. Even then it probably won't work too great and I don't recommend its use.
Web build:
* If you'd like your d-mod packaged up into an easily-accessible web build to place on itch.io, now's the time to ask!
Known issues:
* System MIDI output will not work for this release unless you recompile with standard SDL Mixer. It may return in a later release. Apologies to CoolSoft or Roland MT-32 users out there, but this is a library limitation meaning you'll have to contend with FluidSynth or TiMIDIty or one of the other 3 backends instead for now.
* AppImages don't bundle Gnome's libGLib meaning you'll have to install it yourself if you somehow don't already have it.
