Stencyl 4.0.2 - December 14, 2019

Stencyl 4.0.2

This is primarily a bugfix release for the 4.0.1 release earlier this year. Notable improvements are the new 64-bit distributions for Windows users, better compatibility with macOS Catalina, support for the latest Xcode and MS Visual Studio versions, and a higher default memory limit for Stencyl itself.

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Notes

Subscribers: This release does not include all of the features in the current subscribers-only builds. If you're currently using a private build and would like to update, please update with the latest private build.

If you find any issues, please report them on the issue tracker.

Other issue tracker links:
[4.0.3] tag: issues planned for the next patch release.
[4.1.0] tag: features and issues planned for our next minor feature release.

Changes

Dashboard:
- Don't allow resources to be opened while already loading (#1663).

Scene Designer:
- Avoided index out of bounds error causing scenes to not open (#1552).
- Don't try to use custom cursors on unsupported systems (#1498).
- Fix "bring actor to front within layer" functionality.

Design Mode:
- Don't allow dropdown menus beneath blocks to be opened (#547).
- More accurate tinting of Design Mode blocks on macOS/Linux.

Actor Type Editor:
- Don't read in ghost shapes (#1517).
- Always refresh collisions page when animations are added/removed (#1553).
- Fix size of collision bounds of drag-and-drop imported animations.

Behavior Page:
- Behaviors Tab cuts off behaviors with a lot of text (#1591).

External Tools:
- Added missing dependency needed to unzip 7-zip files, including Pencyl (#1531).
- Retry running external commands if they fail due to CreateProcess error (sometimes due to antivirus/cloud sync/etc creating short-lived locks).
- Make VsCode work on macOS if the .app is selected.

Resources:
- [creation] Prevented higher scale images from being created on import if higher scales are disabled.
- [creation] Fixed a bug with number of rows/columns being swapped when importing tileset image.
- [duplication] Fix: font images not being copied when duplicated (#1542).
- [duplication] Fix: multiple copies of higher scales appearing when duplicating Actor Types (#1554).
- [duplication] Fix: custom blocks in duplicated behaviors still referring to the original (#257).
- [importing] Set atlas ID for imported resources to 0 if atlas does not exist (#1504).
- [importing] Fix loading of tilesets with images that don't match the claimed number of tiles.
- [importing] Fix importing of resource packs with behaviors using each others custom blocks (#1646).
- [exporting] Fix bug causing potentially high size of exported resource packs

Game Settings:
- [scaling] Don't read in enabled scales that have been disabled in project scales (#1548).
- [android] Fixed custom Android keystore paths so they would actually be used.
- [android] Limit allowed Android platforms to ones that have been tested.
- [android] Allow accepting Android licenses from within Stencyl as needed. (#1545).
- [ios] Fix iOS launch storyboard scaling (thread).
- [web preloader] Preloader images can't be cleared (#1538, other little bug).
- [atlases] Fix: Atlas button on scene tab wasn't opening atlas page due to refreshing
- [atlases] Fix: Scene listing in atlas scene manager only shows scenes not in any folder when first opened
- [engine-extensions] Fix: labels extension not appearing by default.

Compilation:
- [codegen] Fixed compilation error with certain number formats that are valid in Java but not Haxe, parse as text instead (#1537).
- [codegen] Don't let faster code generator erroneously succeed if blocks are missing.
- [issues] Hidden pref for showing errors dialog even if there's only warnings. "prefs.compile.showwarn=true"
- [resources] Ensure that we never write out scales that are excluded from project (#1548).
- [windows c++] Fix visual studio detection when vswhere.exe exists but returns bad path
- [ios] Fix Xcode warnings when using deployment targets newer than 9. (thread)
- [ios] Fix various errors when min iOS versions other than 10 are selected.
- [windows] Use the 64-bit release to allow compiling larger projects (thread).
- [windows] Default to 32-bit output for Windows desktop games.
- [windows] Fix typeinfo.h error for recent MS Visual Studio update

Engine:
- [rendering] Fixed drawing position for simple physics actors with top left origin points (#1506).
- [rendering] Made camera movement smoother by not rounding layer positions (#1525).
- [rendering] Fixed gradient background center being shifted by text/image drawing blocks in previous scene.
- [rendering] Fix tilelayers being cut off when zoomed out in Flash
- [rendering] Fix font width/height blocks for default font when scaled.
- [rendering] Make scaled text respect antialiasing.
- [rendering] Fix crash when reloading screen with scale changes if an actor with no anim is present.
- [rendering] (rare case) Fix drawString on non-flash platforms when tilemap rendering is disabled.
- [rendering] Fix crash when actors are z-ordered in certain ways (#1539).
- [input] Fixed actor mouse detection when x and y scale values are different.
- [input] The "control key is down" block now also works with the command key on Mac (#1489).
- [input] Handle gamepads being added and removed at runtime more gracefully
- [input] Enable multitouch on non-mobile platforms (#1544).
- [sound] Fixed bug with sound channel event not working after pausing and resuming a sound.
- [sound] play/loop sound blocks always start a sound with default volume and pan (#1505).
- [game logic] Added log message clarifying that a transitioning scene cannot be paused (#1520).
- [game logic] Don't retain Instance Customization of actors when recycled (#1558).
- [game logix] Fix native events not being disposed when attached to actors (#1645).
- [preloader] Don't show preloader image in front of preloader bar (#1538, bug #1).
- [coding] Small change to typing of event listeners due to Haxe 4 (#1604).
- [coding] Engine setting for preserving offscreen tolerance (#1601).
- [android] Fix potential crash when gpg signin fails (thread).
- [android] Don't crash when purchases is disconnected mid-operation (#1516).

OS/Tool Compatibility:
- Fixed HTML5 and iOS compilation bug that occurred for some macOS users (thread).
- Stencyl is now bundled with Java 11 on every OS
- Windows 64-bit release now available
- Except for the win32 release, Stencyl opens with an increased default memory cap of 4GB
- Include example java parameter in linux script for hidpi displays
- Xcode 11 support
- Support for using the Desktop/Documents folders on macOS Catalina
- Stencyl dmg releases are notarized for Catalina
- Android API 29 support
- Allow JDKs other than Java 8 for Android compilation.

Third-Party Libraries:
- Update Haxe: 3.4.7 -> 4.0.2
- Update Hxcpp: 4.0.2 -> 4.0.19
- Update OpenFL: 8.7.0 -> 8.9.5
- Update Lime: 7.2.0 -> 7.6.3
- Updated hxp, polygonal-ds, hxtelemetry

So many nice bug fixes in this release.