History/1.0.2beta

The Phoenix Version

Note: We have forked! I'm now working on both 1.0.2 and 2.0.2 at the same time
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• good things

1.0.1b100 May 12, 2016, the "Veganic" version

Lite Mac, Pro Mac, 2 Mac, Lite Win, Pro Win 2 Win

• Producer:
  • file->export->selection to CDG: now available. works if you have Producer, does nothing otherwise.
  • now supports background colors, you can set it in the Inspector
  • now supports five voices: single, male, female, duet, and third singer (different colors / fonts per)
  • if the "up card" for intro or outro won't fit in the available space, kJams will seek one with " (small)" at the end of the name. if that fails, " (tiny)".
  • comp blobs can be marked as "label sensitive". if so, the background color is set by the label color (experimental)
  • name of element picture can contain the [cBak] key, meaning you can get a different pic depending on what's in the "Background" meta data column
  • you can turn on a checkbox that will show the current CDG "Font" rectangle that is being drawn
  • if you use a picture who's path doesn't exist, kJams would create the empty path on your hard drive. this is fixed.
  • if you option-click in the timecode button it will switch to CDG records
  • fixed major memory leak when building MediaStream files
  • "clear screen" command implemented (unused in TunePrompter)
  • fixed bug: first page of lyrics always goes back far enough to have room to load without colliding with sweep text
  • when opening a producer file who's xml causes an error, you now get a warning, and the song doesn't load, instead of it seeming to load but then you crash
  • when creating a page that has only 2 lines, it should now draw the lines such that they span only 2 CDG rows, instead of 3, so the page loads faster (2 wipes instead of 3)
• Windows:
  • if you got the error about "initializing audio output", it may have been about that the channel was already taken. made the error message more clear about that.
  • if you had a non-CD disc in your CD / DVD drive, you'd get an error about "track start / length". fixed
  • put try/catch around the code that draws cells in the browser. dunno if it'll help (assert i_retainCountS)
• Mac:
  • fixed crash on shut down re: setting the cursor
  • outlined text is drawn / measured more accurately
  • fixed a crash when reading certain broken XML files
  • fixed a crash opening producer in kJams 2 if you had *just* stopped a song and it was still fading out
• factored a bunch of code relating to "paused"
• fixed the Rotation Showscreen (singer names only) to not have spazzy text
• my networking thingybob now knows what to say in the progress window (verbs)
• you can now edit the "Background" meta data column, but it doesn't do anything
• {curly braces} are now supported as reinterpret template characters
• added ability for a developers to use HTTP api to control kJams the way Python can, for some functions
• "KJ Rotation" now always appears up to date for wtkJams (you'll see correct singer numbers next to their names)
• loading xml files, which are expected to be utf8 when not labeled, now can optionally convert from macRoman to utf8
• trimming whitespace on a string (beginning and end) now includes tabs, and carriage returns, and linefeeds
• JSON parser now uses new whitespace trimmer
• fixed the database backer-upper: it now really does save more than a day's worth of backups. wow. just wow.
• fixed yet another crash in server, i think
• fixed a glitch in the notion of "is playing" according to python. will say "yes i'm playing" even BETWEEN songs, as long as we're loading a song to play next