Build 256 - beta 6

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The 6th beta of the build 256 of the iOS runtime is available (build 256.24).

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Make backup copies of your MFA files before using this build, just in case there is a problem and you need to switch back to a previous build. PS: if you want to reinstall a previous build, press SHIFT+CONTROL when you click the Start button in the installer, to force it to reinstall the main program files.

Thanks for testing!

Yves.

Bug fixes and new features in Build 256 - Beta 6

- Fixed crash in extensions showing a popover in landscape mode in iOS6 (Game Center and Active Picture object image selector)
- Fixed additional Game Center crashes if running on device with iOS5 when compiled with iOS6 SDK.
- Added backdrops adjusted for hotspot after redrawing a layer (messed up collisions with them)
- Vertical centered and bottom alignment in string objects now work
- Added 'Done' button for numeric keyboard on iPhone to be able to dismiss it
- Generating random numbers gave negative results for large input numbers
- Crash in 'Pick one object' because of the random number generation
- Lots of Flocking object bug fixes and optimizations
- For extension developers, added "Q_sqrt(x)" function to the SDK which calculates the fast inverse square root 1/sqrt(x)

Bug fixes and new features in Build 256 - Beta 5

- iOS6 : Orientation fix for some landscape modes
- Crash in ForEach object
- Counter and Score objects not visually updating their values sometimes

Bug fixes and new features in Build 256 - Beta 4

- The iOS runtime in this version was actually identical to beta 3...

Bug fixes and new features in Build 256 - Beta 3

- iOS6 : Orientation problem is now fixed.
- iOS6 : Game Center Connect crashes when authenticating the player.
- iOS6 : iAD fixed - note that Apple has phased out landscape ads, they are no longer supported.
- Flocking object has been ported.
- Fixed possible crashes in the Dead Reckoning object.
- Small optimizations.

Note for extension developers:

- iOS6 replaced the 'presentModalViewController' with the new 'presentViewController' with a completion handler. We have added a simpler version of 'presentViewController' into "MainViewController" that if compiled with iOS5 SDK uses the 'presentModalViewController' method and with iOS6 SDK uses the new 'presentViewController' routine but with no completion handler. This is the preferred way to show your view controller unless you need to use the completion handler as it will work for all users regardless of the SDK they use.

- The runtime now has an 'omnipresent' objectSelection class present in the CRun class (typically accessible through ho->hoAdRunHeader->objectSelection)The old method of allocating an instance of the class still works, but it is preferable to only use the instance in CRun.

Bug fixes and new features in Build 256 - Beta 2

- Fixed several memory leaks
- Fixed freeze in 'Last object has been destroyed' condition
- Bug in Advanced Path Movement when clearing the path (CArrayList bug)
- Mersenne Twister returned bad floating point values
- Fixed drag-drop for non-active objects
- Fixed drag-drop movement when scrolling the screen
- Crash in iOS Store when switching frames before a request finished
- Frame color was still set and read wrong
- ForEach crash when no objects were available for the loop at the time of the action
- Button object now supports the 'Checkbox' setting and shows an iOS Switch control (ON/OFF).
- String object crashed when getting the N'th paragraph
- Crash when getting a filename parameter (selected from a common dialog) in the Unicode runtime
- Active Picture object supports wrapping on/off setting
- Active Picture Object now attempts to load the image from the cache if no internet connection is available
- New "Display" property in the iOS Application property page, allowing a fine control of the application display on the device. More information in the documentation (Distributing / iOS / iOS properties).
- Active/Background System Box could crash when getting it's current string if it didn't have any from the start of the frame
- Added backdrops could disappear during scrolling while they were still on-screen (hotspot was misaligned in the visiblity calculations)
- Space Invader movement stopped working if the "master invader" got destroyed (all objects stopped moving)
- Space Invader movement crashed sometimes when destroying an object with the movement
- Two crashes in button object related to retrieving it's current text
- iOS Video object could intercept mouse clicks (touch input) even when it was destroyed
- New actions in iOSVideo object : Play, Pause, Stop, Set playback time, Begin seeking forward, Begin seeking backward, End seeking
- New expression in iOSVideo object : Get playback time
- Strings used as parameters of events were corrupted after a jump to frame jumping at the same frame
- New Launch image landscape property for iPad projects in the iOS application properties page
- PC runtime: an optimization has been made for scrolling games that contain lot of backdrop objects on layers above the first one and heavily test the collisions with the background.

Bug fixes and new features in Build 256 - Beta 1

- No more compiler warnings when using XCode 4.4
- Hang in Bin() expression
- Crash in Val() expression
- Array object garbled up it's entries when expanding the array
- Active/Background System box bug in multiline text alignment
- The current device orientation would sometimes not be updated
- Score object would sometimes not update its display of the score
- Fixed hidden layers reappering when restarting the frame
- Counter objects would not show an initial value of -1
- In a rare case textures would turn into black boxes
- Embedded binary files are now properly supported in the runtime - most objects support loading directly from them. No more need to use XCode resources.
- List object: Would sometimes not read the very last line in the file (and other extensions)
- AppDrive$, AppDir$ and AppPath$ now just return empty strings (as all file paths on iOS should be relative)
- List object did not load the list content in unicode version
- Camera object : crash in sounds when recording a video
- Camera object : the object memory was not released at the end a frame
- Crash in sound initialization
- Crash of the program in Release version
- Frame background color was incorrect (bad red value)
- RGBAt function of active objects returned wrong numbers
- Lives and scores were always 0 in a sub application
- Pasting an object on the right or bottom of the frame did not paste it.
- Load and Save actions are implemented in the Edit Box object
- Button object crashes related to its text retrieval expression
- Important change: Subfolders for files are now supported globally. Before it just removed the folder component.
- New extension port: Dead Reckoning object (needs testing)

For iOS extension developers:
- New API for listening to some iOS system events
- New easy function to retrieve the NSData of a named resource (be it local file, xcode resource or embedded binary file)
- Moved common and useful extension info routines from CExtension to CObject (such as setting and getting positions and more).
- New simple convenience functions to convert between radians and angles (degreesToRadians(), radiansToDegrees())