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@benfry benfry released this 13 Feb 18:31
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Revision 1281 – 13 February 2022

Continuing the unintentional tradition of Processing releases on Super Bowl Sundays, here's beta 6.

Scaling and stretching on Windows

  • Windows scaling at 125% was stretching sketches to make them look crusty. #378

  • pixelDensity() not working in exported Windows applications. #5414

  • Implement sketch scaling in PApplet so that they take UI sizing into account. #4897, #4894

These changes also include some extra native code on Windows, which is described in detail here.

Hell freezes over

For those of you that use Git (or other version control) this release includes an experimental(!) feature that lets you separate the name of the sketch from the name of the main tab. This means that you can use "Save As…" and it won't rename the file for the main tab. Or you can rename a sketch folder and the sketch inside will still work properly.

Uncheck the “Keep sketch name and main tab in sync” option in Preferences, and you're on your way. This is a major change to some of the oldest code in the PDE. If it has bugs, it may eat code. Use with caution and report any issues you see immediately!

Again, please help test this feature and file issues if you run into trouble.

Bug fixes

  • Actually set the correct names for the windowMove() and windowResize() functions that were announced in beta 5. #53

  • PDF export not working with Processing 4.0 beta 5. #395

  • Lots of issues discovered when making the sketch naming change. For instance, it looks like it was sometimes necessary to twice select the Mode for Android sketches. Also sorts out issues with when sketch.properties was or was not written.

  • Fix NullPointerException on first use of Export to Application.

  • RGB image created with createImage() has alpha channel. #388

  • CODED is inconsistent between the default renderer and P2D/P3D. #376

  • Fix multi-line strings not terminating properly. #398, #400

  • Clean up text sizes in the warning dialog box shown when sketch files change outside the Editor.

  • Clean up error text in the console that showed up when sketch files removed from a sketch while it was still open (after the user was asked about them).

Minor changes

  • Fix up “Display N does not exist, using the default display instead” message. If more than one display, shows list of available displays (size and index).

  • Move "Add Examples" to bottom of the Examples window

  • Change cmd-click in window title to point to sketch folder, not the main PDE.

Things you're less likely to notice

  • Updated to Java 17.0.2+8. We hope this may fix the java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: accessibilityHitTest error. #408

  • Removed anachronistic Preferences.save() that happened after opening a sketch.

Until further notice

The macOS-aarch64 (Apple Silicon) release is not yet complete. If you want to use P2D and P3D (OpenGL) on macOS, use the Intel (x86_64) build, which is the only one that will be linked from processing.org/download until this situation is resolved. See #370 for status updates.

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