v0.9.3

[timothyschoen]

New plugdata version, with a few new features, but mostly bugfixes and QoL improvements:

Platform Support

• Added ASIO support for Windows
• Reduced installer sizes for macOS and Windows
• Added Arch and openSUSE arm64 builds

Heavy exporter

• Heavy console can now display colour, bold text and carriage returns
• Heavy console informs users about harmless error messages
• Updated to heavylib 0.4.1
• Fixed incorrect dfu-util exit status for Heavy→Daisy exports
• Fixed Windows DPF export for Heavy ignoring meta.json settings
• Fixed Heavy triggering background updates to tracked folders
• Fixed bug with compiled mode enablement state
• Fixed compiled mode marking GoP as incompatible
• Added expr/expr~/block/nop~ to supported objects
• Flipped 'Add Object' menu icons for consistency

iOS

• Fixed iOS touch gestures support: no longer needs two-finger scrolling on all viewports
• Fixed issue where externals sfz~, sfinfo, sfload and play.file couldn't be created in iOS
• Fixed patches not being able to read file resources (you can now use "Open folder" to grant patches permission to read sibling files)
• Fixed recently opened panel not remembering patch file permissions
• Fixed bottom part of screen being cropped on older iPads

Pre-made plugins and Library panel

• Improved version management for patches in the library panel
• Plugin meta.json file can specify a plugin mode scale factor for hi-dpi scaling using the "Scale" property
• Plugin patches that have a meta.json file now recall your preferred zoom setting

Object Issues

• Fixed [nbx] displaying wrong color
• Fixed [vradio] object being called "hradio" in the Inspector title
• Fixed [knob] keeping exponential value when switching to linear mode
• Fixed some [floatbox] settings not being saved in the patch
• Fixed receive config on [knob] adding additional backslash in escaped spaces
• Fixed [symbolbox] duplicate output
• Fixed [bl.square~] from menu creating a [bl.tri~] instead
• Fixed [bng]/[tgl] label appearing in wrong position
• Fixed object parameter issues for [bng], [tgl], [nbx], [numbox~], [scope~], [knob], [vu], [cnv], [radio], [pic], and more
• Fixed [garray] blocking mouse input if not editable
• Fixed [keyname] and similar objects losing tracking of keyboard input when any subpatch receives a s pd-subpatch "coords" message
• Fixed user being able to edit pd.lua file too easily, causing them to break their pdlua installation
• Fixed inability to type question marks in [listbox]
• Fixed resampling quality for [pic] images
• Fixed various [pdlua] graphics rendering quality issues
• Fixed text rendering quality for objects that render text with nanovg ([pdlua], [nbx], [listbox], more)
• Fixed resize cursor showing directions that object can't be resized in
• Fixed [graph] being resizable from the outside (can now only be resized from the inside or properties)
• Fixed [numbox~] appearance being different from else/vanilla equivalent
• Fixed MIDI port selection popup not showing where the DAW input/output is

Plugin & DAW Issues

• Fixed random keyboard focus loss in Logic
• Fixed VST3 plugin window not storing custom size
• Fixed issue where multiple envelopes were altered when changing just one parameter by dragging its slider in automation touch mode
• Fixed wrong latency reported in settings panel
• Fixed hard crash in Ableton Live when saving MIDI clips
• Fixed resize/zoom issue on project recall in Bitwig and FL Studio
• Fixed UI going white when auto-hidden by DAWs on Windows 11
• Fixed UI freezing in FL Studio
• Fixed latency display in statusbar causing constant repaints in DAW
• Fixed FX module visual glitches in FL Studio
• Fixed VST3 not renaming & updating DAW parameters the first time they're loaded in Bitwig
• Fixed param sometimes not outputting value when reopening/recalling patch in Bitwig
• Fixed plugin being unstable at sample rates higher than 48kHz
• Fixed limit 0 message sent to PD being ignored in some DAWs
• Fixed reopened plugin window defaulting to Edit mode
• Fixed tooltips being displayed outside of the plugin window frame
• Fixed spacebar blocking mouse input in plugin mode
• Fixed DAW MIDI input being at channel 17 instead of 1

Platform specific issues

• Fixed externals being broken on macOS
• Fixed standalone MIDI out having huge latency on Windows
• Fixed patches with non-UTF8 folder names not showing up in library panel on Windows
• Fixed export workspace feature not automatically supplying file extension
• Fixed Windows reporting Inter font as missing in settings
• Fixed window shadow and outline on Linux
• Fixed dialogs not popping to front when asking to save on macOS
• Fixed various menus and tooltips not scaling correctly on Windows and Linux
• Fixed rendering issues on Linux when quickly updating GUI objects
• Fixed issue where patch window could be black after switching workspace on Linux
• Fixed DAW projects not able to be transferred from Windows to macOS/Linux
• Fixed object size appearing wrong on Linux if syntax highlighting is enabled

Other

• Fixed screen glitches when patch in other tab is repainting
• Fixed glitchy transitions when switching from welcome panel to canvas
• Fixed glitchy transitions when closing dialogs
• Fixed black line above canvas when applying global scale factor
• Fixed various internal GM synth bugs (outputting silence or noise)
• Fixed plugdata crashing on startup (bug with internal GM synth)
• Fixed pdlua objects not showing up in autocomplete
• Fixed potential data-races when dynamically patching in DAW
• Fixed crash when openGL3 is not available, now shows informative error message instead
• Fixed build-in text/code editor not being able to do line wrapping
• Fixed zoom and search UX for text/code editor
• Fixed broken word selection on object text editors with double-click, ctrl + left/right or ctrl + shift + left/right
• Added tab animations when opening/closing tabs

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This discussion was created from the release v0.9.3.