December 23 2024

Breaking Changes

• No breaking changes 🥳

Gum Tool

Biggest Changes

• Improvements to the State tab
  • Component name is now displayed in the new States tab
  • Categories are displayed with folder icons
  • States cannot be moved when required in behaviors
  • Removing or renaming states needed by behaviors gives more informative popup
  • Fixed a number of cases where the right-click didn't stay in sync with the selected items
• Improved Polygon editing
  • Moving, adding, and removing points now updates the point list
  • Point list can now add and delete points
  • Add point icon only shows over segment when within 15 pixels
  • Polygon overlay icons and points now scale according to zoom
• Improved support for instances in behaviors
  • Instances can be renamed
  • Instance types can be changed
  • Instances can be deleted
  • Instances from behaviors can be dropped into components to create new instances
• Exposed variables can now be renamed
• Missing runtime files are now generated recursively making it easier to add codegen to projects. Gum asks if you would like to generate missing files.

Everything else

• Right-click options now show on label of toggle buttons (such as Width Units)
• Right-click options now show on angle selector in text box
• Removed code generation of standard elements
• Fixed a number of crashes in code generation
• Fixed back slash handling on instances in screens, behavior names, and instances in behaviors
• Hotkey menu can now be hidden with middle click, and the menu items toggle to display hide/show (thanks @kaltinril )
• Fixed state selection on undo
• Added ability to duplicate behavior categories and to move states to different behavior categories
• Adding a category to a behavior now saves the behavior
• Added check for whether project has already been saved before adding Skia components, preventing a dozen unnecessary popups
• State animation tab can be hidden with middle click, and menu item toggles properly ( thanks @kaltinril )
• Categorized states now show in the States and Visibility section
• Category/state name is now displayed in brackets when right-clicking on state tree view (thanks @kaltinril )
• Pressing X when asked if files should be copied or to overwrite existing files on copy now cancels the state assignment
• Right-click on standards folder now has a View in Explorer option
• Removed menu item for adding forms if forms have already been added
• Behaviors can now be drag+dropped onto components to add the behavior
• Removed unused Guide variable
• Fixed left alignment of Source File for sprites (thanks @kaltinril )
• Moved Source File for Sprites to the Source section (thanks @kaltinril )
• Removed Default state displayed in variable grid when the default state is selected in the state tree view
• Removed View Code menu item
• Removed ability to drag+drop instances into standard elements
• Improved folder renaming support - it succeeds more often now, and if it fails a more informative error is displayed.
• Fixed folder deleting when in a onedrive folder (thanks @kaltinril )
• Added go to definition support for instances in behaviors
• Dropping a Screen onto a Behavior now shows a more informative error
• Option to Wrap is now hidden when showing Entire Texture
• Texture Scale Width and Texture Scale Height now default to 1, making Sprites behave more predictably when changing to DimensionsBased Texture Address Mode
• Double-click to move texture coordinates in Texture Coordinate tab now records undo
• Fixed rendering error when sprite textures wrap beyond first row and column
• Texture Width Scale and Texture Height Scale now include informative description
• Animations now play more smoothly (fixed performance issues)
• Fixed texture coordinate window showing previous value instead of new value when changing texture coordinate values in the variable grid

Gum Runtimes

• Added CircleRuntime
• Added PolygonRuntime Alpha, Red, Green, and Blue
• Added RectangleRuntime alpha, Red, Green, and Blue
• Added a no-argument GraphicalUiElement.AddToManagers
• Added new Menu and MenuItems Forms controls
• Fixed runtime crash happening only on itch.io with not handling ordinal case comparison
• Fixed ListBox not raising its SelectionChanged events
• HasEvents and ExposeChildrenEvents is now carried over from gum to code
• Added support for the Move command in GraphicalUiElement Children. Calling Children.Move now updates layout

Samples

• Simplified custom list box screen
• Added SimpleListBoxItemRuntime as example for customizing list boxes

Full Changelog: Release_December_5_2024...Release_December_23_2024