released on 5th September 2018

VVVV

general

• Much smaller download size
• VL editor window is shown in task bar
• Better startup time
• improved document management: drop vl files onto vvvv patches or hit Ctrl-O to open them
• added a "Show VL" command in main menu
• setup.exe disables Win10 fullscreen optimizations by default
• Fixed null pointer exception in texture marshaling code
• Added MouseLostNotification so mouse states nodes can reset their state - see https://discourse.vvvv.org/t/mouse-device-mousestate-split-isnt-releasing-buttons-if-you-enable-or-disable-mouse/16440
• Fixed regression mouse/keyboard state split nodes not working - see https://discourse.vvvv.org/t/mouse-state-as-ouput-in-plugins-broken/16443
• resetting color pins works again
• richer tooltips for node pins

new nodes

• HTMLTexture now for both DX11 and DX9
• AsImage (DX11.Texture2D) to move a dx11-texture over to vl-image land
• Processes (Windows Async)

fixed nodes

• Tokenizers now handle irregular input correctly
• Camera (Orbit) hast damping again
• Fixed division by zero in TextEX9 node when fed with nil
• AsImage node will turn red in case it can't handle the incoming texture instead of just logging to tty
• Disabled context menu in HTML texture
• fixed small issues on CreateEnum (no multiline string, rare cyclic patch involving this node now works)
• Ex9 renderer with clear turned off: when re-enabling the renderer we now don't clear it

VL

• big CoreLib Cleanup
• introducing keywords "Experimental", "Advanced", "Obsolete"
• "Internal" to hide nodes
• Adaptive nodes now can spread into different categories
• many NodeBrowser refinements
• Tooltip and Nodebrowser not always on top
• Improved File IO
• Patch Your Own MainLoops
• Better serialization
• Groups and Categories
• groups now can be placed everywhere
• Frames
• Fix for undo/redo where sometimes the wrong patch got tackled
• note: a name change of a type, group or category is always covered by the undo history of this element. For undo you need to navigate into it.
• Better exception reporting
• improved document management:
• Close a document via Ctrl-F4
• Ctrl-W closes a tab. Hiding last tab hides window
• Drag dropping VL documents now simply opens the document as this is 99% of time what you want
• added scrollbar for enum dropdowns
• fixed glitches for enum dropdowns
• less verbose warning for mutable links (now only visualized with a yellow sock at the end of a link)
• IOBoxes cannot be interacted with anymore if only used for display
• SolutionExplorer navigates to open patch when opened
• Cache region can optionally dispose cached objects when creating new ones
• added many help texts to nodes
• dynamic enum for installed system fonts
• color editor remembers hue and saturation while changing value with mouse
• Destroy operation is now called Dispose as in .NET
• tooltip now uses custom ToString method (if defined) to display values
• In case hot swap fails the exception will be logged and the runtime will be put into the stopped mode so user can act upon error accordingly
• Rewrote how incremental compilation works and how model gets synchronized to symbols
• Compiling should be quicker now
• Fixes issues like "Object is no subtype of Object" when patching in document referenced by others
• Fixed that the UI wasn't always in sync with current compilation
• Enabled pin groups on process nodes
• Do not generate unique names anymore when pasting elements
• Added support for multi dimensional arrays
• Destroy is now called Dispose and user has to implement IDisposable interface on patch explicitly
• Added non-generic ISpread and ISpreadBuilder interfaces
• Added IVLObject interface which gives access to the VL runtime graph in a nice dynamic fashion
• Added IVLTypeInfo and IVLPropertyInfo in order to be able to reflect on VL object graph
• Added IVLFactory interface which gets passed in to new static RegisterServices entry points
• In case a VL document defines a non-generic RegisterServices operation it will be called once after each re-compile. For many documents they will be called in reverse topological order
• Virtual methods of the Object class can now be overriden (ToString, Equals, GetHashCode)
• Whether emitted VL types behave in an immutable fashion is now decided by an internal flag -> process nodes can be mutable as long as the surrounding context is
• Loops will now re-use the output spreads and only create new ones if the data actually changes
• Hot swapper will now traverse deep into the VL graph in order to figure out whether or not a swap is needed
• Removed restriction for apply pin lifting that first pins must be named Input and Output
• Documents can now be reloaded from disk
• Color editor remembers hue and saturation while dragging
• Redo now also works with CTRL+Y shortcut
• Splash screen for first long VL compile
• library developers can use the "lib-native" pattern early on. freeing them from the need of creating a package before they even start working on the library
• IOBoxes have much less annoying tooltip

new nodes

• Spread generator nodes (LinearSpread,...) are now Processes with their stateless companions (CreateLinearSpread,...) being marked as advanced
• HoldLatestError (Reactive)
• MultimediaTimer and BusyWaitTimer see vl-patch-your-own-mainloops
• MidiClock in/out
• MidiMonitor to debug midi messages
• MidiPlayer to play back midi files
• Rectangle creators with anchor point
• Scale and Inflate to modify rectangles in each direction
• RotateBetween to rotate objects from one direction to another direction
• AlignBetween to align objects between two points
• TryDispose to safely dispose objects and collections
• Four new experimental nodes called TryGetValue, TryGetValueByPath, WithValue and WithValueByPath which allow you to modify VL instances in a rather dynamic fasion
• FromImageBitmap
• Imported all mutable .NET collections like List, Dictionary, HashSet...

fixed nodes

• Filename (Split) has now string as first output to be opposite of Filename (Join)
• MidiOut closes device properly
• Filter (Animation) has a "Reset" pin
• OnOpen has a "Simulate" pin
• Fixed AsyncLoop stopping when patching outside of it

changed nodes

• Serial port sender and datagram sender nodes will now turn pink if they catch exceptions on background thread

bug fixes

• Fixed region choice not showing up on directly imported nodes
• Fixed default values not being copied to pin group pins
• Fixed not being able to get rid of red apply pin
• Fixed invalid target code when passing struct to method expecting an interfaces - boxing was missing
• Fixed dead lock when debugging with Visual Studio 2017
• Fixed issue where ForEach region was broken after Copy&Paste
• Border control points outside of regions will now show proper error message and will be rendered by UI
• Fixed Ctrl+Plus adding pins on nodes where lifting is not even supported - see https://discourse.vvvv.org/t/adding-pins-to-generic-fails/16348
• Fixed image copying functions to take scan size into account
• Fixed super expensive equality check of Path
• Fixed broken links when moving a selection into operation definition
• Fixed stack overflow when creating and using a custom operation called "With" on a class or record
• In case hot swap crashes for a particular field create the whole value anew
• Fixed pin value of optional apply pins on process nodes not working
• Fixed issue in converter of old VL patches that Break or Keep pins inside loops didn't show up anymore
• Fixed custom value indicator not working on first pin in case by-pass lifting was applied
• Fixed some settings not being reloaded when saving settings file
• Fixed crash when installing a package while vvvv/VL is running
• Fixed performance issue in compiler when opening patches with many links
• Fixed performance bottleneck in UI code when looking at patches with many links and subpatches
• Fixed a dead lock when loading VL documents
• Fixed a crash in "Code" window