On the heels of Jacque's announcement, I'm pleased to announce that the newest release of the MetaCard IDE, Version 4.1, is now available for download.
This release has *a lot* of changes and additions to it, and a list of these changs/additions is included at the bottom of this post and as part of the download. If you already downloaded a copy using Jacque's MC Setup stack right after she made her announcement, you should download a new copy... the IDE changed slightly and the MC Setup stack did not download a copy of Richard's standalone builder stack; this is all included in the MC IDE download. You can get it from the Yahoo Group's "Files" area, or you can download it directly from this url: http://metcard.livejournal.com/files/mc_ide_4.1.zip If you have any issues with the new IDE, please post them to the list or send me an email, whichever you feel is most appropriate. Enjoy! Ken ======================= Version 4.1 - June 2011 General ------- - Added support for a new 'mcomponents' folder with the first component being Richard's new Standalone Builder. This folder will be used for other components later on down the line. - Added "mcGetPref", "mcSetPref", and "mcPrefsList" handlers to the backscript to work with new preferences model (see Preferences for more info). - Added "mcStackPath" function to backscript to help developers deal with the multiple MC/Rev/LC extensions. (To use, pass it a path to a stack file minus any extension; it will check for .mc, .rev, or .livecode versions of that stack path and return the path, including extension, or "not found" if there isn't a stack file with any of those extensions.) - Added "mcLoadStack" and "mcPurgeStack" handlers to backscript to help developers manage memory. - Added Richard's "mcStandaloneBuilder.rev" stack which is currently IN BETA - so if you run into any issues or have any suggested changes, please send a message to the MetaCard List or contact him directly at "ambassa...@fourthworld.com". Menus ----- - [File] Added support for listing .livecode files in the Open dialog - [File] Modified "New Stack" to set the following properties on by default: destroyWindow, destroyStack, liveResizing, alwaysBuffer, width=640, height=480, loc=screenLoc. NOTE: This does not change the current state of the templatestack. - [Edit] Added support for pasting image data; it creates a new image object with the image data in it - [Text] Added "Gray", "Orange" and "Purple" to text colors menu (we already had the secondary color "Green", but we didn't have the other two secondary ones) - [Window] Fixed bug in Window menu creation where button reference was inaccurate under certain circumstances - [Window] Supercharged the "Window" menu: (a) Shows hidden windows with surrounding brackets (b) Puts a diamond in front of the menu item for the topmost window (c) If you pick a hidden (bracketed) window from the menu, you have an option to show it (shows a confirmation dialog unless you hold down Option when making the selection) (d) Added a "Center Offscreen Windows" menu item (e) If you hold down Option when invoking the menu, the windows in the menu are not sorted (i.e. they are listed in stacking order) (f) If you hold down the Shift key when invoking the menu, the substacks of the main stacks in the menu are listed in a submenu that you can select from (if you want to open the substack) or just view. Message Box ----------- - Removed 4W-specific code from card script - Fixed bug where you couldn't use parentheses to execute a command in the Message Box (i.e. "DoMyThing (the short name of this stack)" would think you were trying to execute a function) - Fixed bug where message box wouldn't work under Windows without tinkering with the Message Box Field script to exclude "(x86)" globals Preferences ----------- - Modified layout of Preferences window; made upper/lower case labels consistent across all tabs - [Look and Feel] Added option to turn off message box scrollbars in Preferences window - [Look and Feel] Added option to completely hide the Home stack on launch if you don't want to see it - [Look and Feel] Added checkboxes for setting the default value of destroyStack, destroyWindow, and alwaysBuffer for new stacks - [Script Editor] Added "Cmd-option edits scripts in browse mode" option (defaults to false for backwards compatibility) - [Script Editor] Added "Preserve script-local Variables" option (defaults to false for backwards compatibility) - Added "LiveCode" tab to the Preferences window that allows you to store the location of your LiveCode app bundle or folder to aid with standalone building, etc. - Converted preferences throughout IDE to use a separate preferences file on disk through the use of the "mcGetPref", "mcSetPref", and "mcPrefsList" handlers in the backscript (thank you, Richard!). Properties Palette ------------------ - [All] Added "Visible" property to all properties palette cards - [Button/Appearance] Added "Margins" field - [Stack] Fixed bug where password/passkey could not be set properly with LC Engine 4.0 or later - [Custom Properties] Added ability to create custom property sets in the Custom Properties dialog. - [Custom Properties] Fixed bug that prevented the use of a reserved token for a property name of a custom property set (e.g. trying to set the uRIP["name"] would fail because "name" is a reserved token). Tools Palette ------------- - Added "line" tool to MC Tools palette so it and the MC Toolbar (that displays in Windows/Linux) would be in sync - Modernized look of Tools Palette and MC Toolbar - Fixed bug in Tools palette where selecting a graphic tool would highlight the wrong tool on mouseUp - Fixed bug where adding a datagrid to a new stack would cause an error dialog Object Browser -------------- - Fixed bug where "Script Lines" column was displaying empty, even if objects had a script. (This was due to the change in passkey/password.) Script Editor/Debugger/Variable Watcher --------------------------------------- - Modified "Script Find" window: (a) Adjusted layout (b) It is now resizable (turned on liveResizing) (c) Added toggle triangle to Script Find palette to switch between Find and Replace without having to close Find and open Replace - Fixed bugs in script editor formatting so it wouldn't wrap improperly when it hits a "\" red herring; also indented "case" inside "switch"; support block comments by keeping the indented format - Fixed debugging of behaviors in Variable Watcher. - Fixed bug in VW where manipulating multidimensional arrays would cause the array values field to scroll back to the top after each menu pick. Plugins Manager --------------- - Added "Reload Library" button to MC Plugins Manager window; checking/unchecking library loads/unloads the library - Added support for using .livecode files as plugins (it already had support for .mc and .rev) - Fixed McPluginsManager so that all stacks that don't have a "revMode" open in their natural mode (not always palette if .rev) Other Stacks ------------ - [Home] Modified stack to take up less screen space but still remain useful. - [Find] Minor cosmetic changes - [Script Error] Enlarged the size of the window, and provided extra room for the error object description - Made significant cosmetic adjustments to the UI of the Metacard Menu Bar stack and the Tools palette Optimization ------------ - Centralized call to opening Custom Properties window - IDE now passes the selectedObjectChanged message (don't understand why it didn't before...) - Fixed font support for Home stack and Metacard Menu Bar stack to include text size. _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard