v6.1.0

6.1.0:

• New Features:
  • fade blocks
• Documentation Updates:
  • added migration guide for Morphic2/Snap!6
• Notable Changes:
  • changed label of green "length of" reporter to "length of text"
  • new iconic buttons for grow, shrink and flip actions in the paint editor, thanks, Jadga!
  • UI: automatically switch to scripts tab when dragging a block into the editor pane
  • slightly darker default (non-flat) IDE colors, more cotrast
  • enabled grouping the libraries dialog, thanks, Brian!
  • cleaned up, grouped and annotated libraries, thanks, Brian!
  • updated "About Snap!" dialog box
• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed FOR EACH for hybrid lists, thanks, Brian!
  • fixed script execution behavior when turning turbo mode off programmatically, thanks, Jadga, for reporting it.
  • fixed keyboard shortcuts for saving projects (ctrl + s), finding blocks (ctrl + f) etc..
  • fixed shift-key constrain mode and "clear" in paint and vector editors, thanks, Joan!
  • made remaining synchronous http requests asynch (url: #open, #run)
  • update the Hand's position on mouse-down - avoid triggering at the origin point if clicking before the mouse has been moved
  • fixed a list-watcher direct-editing index offset bug
  • fixed input slider target update rendering
  • fixed sprite speech balloon display for sounds
  • library browser: import selected library on pressing enter
  • fixed binding contexts to other receivers (variable scope for ASK / TELL)
  • fixed numeric input fields in dialog boxes
  • fixed reacting to keyboard input in dialog boxes
  • fixed zoom blocks type-in dialog
  • made stack-highlights un-touchable
• Translation Updates:
  • German

v6.0.0

• New Features:
  • new Morphic architecture, faster loading, smaller memory footprint, mobile-friendly
  • hyper-blocks
  • new "send msg to sprite" primitive in control
  • new "index of" primitive in lists
  • new fast "append" reporter in lists
  • show login status in the cloud button (outline = logged out, solid = logged in)
  • custom drop-downs (experimental, uses JS)
  • blockify lists / tables with atomic values in watchers
  • extended libraries (APL, thanks, Brian) and programmatic handling of variables (thanks, Joan)
  • "result pic..." context menu entry for reporters (used to be hidden "script pic with result..." option)
  • more block relabelling options, e.g. for loops
  • prefix keys in custom drop-down menus with '§_' to only show them if the shift-key is pressed
  • new "id" option in the monadic function reporter primitive (hyperizable to support deep copies of nested lists)
  • new api for creating new lists for embedded Snap sessions
• Notable Changes:
  • repeated WARPs inside loops have been sped up
  • duplicated blocks / scripts are grabbed by their top-left corner rather than their center
  • close all widgets when opening a new project
  • scan first ten rows of a list to determine the number of columns to show in table views
  • give duplicated custom block definitions unique names
  • sort sound and message names in drop-down menus alphabetically
  • changed result for FIND to empty instead of false if none is found
  • new flat design
  • increased contrast in dark mode
  • toggling Retina support has been hidden (because it no longer works the same)
• Notable Fixes:
  • multi-c slots embedding reporters has been disabled
  • programmatically changing a clone from "permanent" to "temporary" now works in presentation mode
  • costumes and sounds of clones are now properly shadowed when modifying them programmatically
  • fixed editing cells in multi-page list watchers
  • recursive calls to "broadcast and wait" execute smoothly again
  • expanding a collapsed comment or clicking on it now brings it to the front
  • long project titles no longer overlap other buttons in the control bar
  • "empty" continuations referring to the end of a script no longer throw an error.
• Translation Updates:
  • New Hebrew translation
  • Ukranian
  • Catalan
  • Portuguese
  • Chinese
  • Japanese
  • Bengali
  • German

v5.4.5

5.4.5:

• Notable Change:
  • always record audio in mono
• Translation Update:
  • German, thanks, Sven!

v5.4.4

5.4.4:

• Notable Fixes
  • fixed strings library format
  • automatically remove orphaned variable watchers

v5.4.3

5.4.3:

• Notable Fix
  • render Boolean slots correctly after mouse-over

v5.4.2

5.4.2:

• Notable Fix:
  • prevent Morphs from sharing canvasses when rerendering

v5.4.1

5.4.1:

• Notable Change:
  • optimized loading projects
• Notable Fix:
  • reduced distortion and clicks when playing notes
• Translation Update:
  • Catalan

v5.4.0

5.4.0:

• New Features:
  • log pen vectors
  • export pen trails as SVG
  • access pen trails as SVG_Costume: new "pen vectors" reporter variant of "pen trails"
  • new Snap! API: broadcast and react to messages, access global variables from outside Snap!
• Notable Change:
  • when creating a costume from pen trails (raster or vector) make its rotation center the position of the sprite
• Notable Fixes:
  • support null-serialization in list-csv conversions
  • avoid circular inheritance when using blocks to set sprites' parents
• Translation Updates:
  • NEW Slovak translation, thanks, Peter Lukacovic
  • German

v5.3.8

v5.3.8:

• Notable Change:
  • optimized color collision detection

v5.3.7

v5.3.7:

• Notable Fixes:
  • wait until the camera actually records something when turning video capture "on"
  • only report video capture as "on" when the camera actually records something