change log - vvvv45beta31.2

released on 11 11 13

general

• SaveDialog now displays directory and filename in 2 lines
• Jump2Parent patch now has international shortcut: ctrl+ the key below ESCAPE
• tty now reports an error if a mididevice fails to open
• Debug Spreads via Ctrl+F10
• Alt+A now opens About patch (allows quick check of running version)
• vvvv shouldn't block windows shutdown sequence anymore. See vvvv-blocking-windows-7-shutdown
• In case a node is missing write proper error message to the log and startup log
• smaller memory footprint while patching
• Much better dongle protection during runtime

boygrouping

• clients/server can again be started in any order and will find each other
• clients again try to reconnect periodically when they lost connection
• a memory leak that kept a copy of each graph-dump for each client is closed

new nodes

• Encode/Decode (String URL)
• Encode/Decode (String HTML)
• Encode (String HTML Attribute)
• module Trigger (Animation)
• module: Limiter (Animation)
• Cons nodes in XElement Category
• Vector swizzle nodes to convert between 2d and 3d vectors: xy, xz, yz, xyZ, xYz, Xyz
• Skip (Raw), Take (Raw), GetBytes (Raw) and + (Raw Spectral)
• complete spreadoperations for Raw category: Queue, Buffer, RingBuffer, SetSlice, DeleteSlice, Zip, Zip (Bin), Unzip, Unzip (Bin)
• module: Randomize (Spreads)
• module: IsActive (VVVV)
• OnDeactivate (VVVV)

changed nodes

• MultiToggle (Animation) got an initialization option
• Window (Windows) has its width/height pins no longer constrained
• all midi nodes now default to Enabled=1
• DMX (Network Artnet Sender/Receiver) now have their SubnetID and UniverseID correctly clamped to 15 and the Do Send is now single

fixed nodes

• Typospread: bugfixes and perforamce gain
• MidiAllNotesOff now applies to all channels/notes correctly
• Info (EX9.Texture) on x64 now correctly initializes sharedhandle to 0
• Render (HTML Url/String) no longer throw javascript errors and now use IE10
• Fixed issue in + (Raw) - read from first slices only.
• Updated resource and memory management for Player (EX9.Texture):
  • All players (in one node) share the same texture pool now
  • Pools get managed per node (not node/slice like before)
  • In each evaluate the player node will:
  • Try to release unused pool memory - but will keep a little to avoid reallocation
  • Release all unused textures
• Vector join/split nodes are 4-5 times faster now

plugin interfaces

• API change: changed type of last parameter of IEffectHost.SetEffect to System.IO.Stream