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Stable Version 0.6.9-1 (Compared to Stable Version 0.6.8-1)

• VortexGE is now licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL version 3. Please consult the file "VMain.h" or "license.txt" for the licensing detail.


• [INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES] All symbols/features which were marked as deprecated at version 0.6.8-1 have been removed :
  • From audio environment :
    • Type definition (typedef) of CTiMidityPlayer
  • From IPC classes :
    • Constant _MAX_MQ_CLIENT_
    • Constant _MAX_MQ_STRBUF_
    • Constant _ENMBYID_ALL
  • From other various parts of the library :
    • Type definition (typedef) of PFNVortexFatalFuncCallback
    • Type definition (typedef) of PFNVortexThreadCallback
    • Type definition (typedef) of PFNVortexWCCCallback
    • Global function UNUSED_PARAM()
    • Global function UNUSED_PARAMS_2()
    • Global function UNUSED_PARAMS_3()
    • Global function UNUSED_PARAMS_4()
    • Global function UNUSED_PARAMS_5()
    • Global function UNUSED_PARAMS_6()
    • Global function UNUSED_PARAMS_7()
    • Global function UNUSED_PARAMS_8()
    • Global function UNUSED_PARAMS_9()
  See the topic "Converting from Older Version of VortexGE" for further information concerning this matter.


• New deprecated features:
  • The functions which are used for saving to older VortexGE file formats are now deprecated:
    • CImageBuilder::__SaveVIB100()
    • CImageBuilder::__SaveVIB110()
    • CPanel3DBuffer::__SaveVPD100()
    • CPanel3DBuffer::__SaveVPD110()
    • CPanel3DBuffer::__SaveVPD111()
    Those functions will be most likely to be removed in the next development release.


• High level application classes changes and/or improvements :
  • New helper functions were added in the CEventHandlerBase class :
    • CMKS_OnKeyPress()
    • CMKS_OnKeyRelease()
    • CAKS_OnKeyPress()
    • CAKS_OnKeyRelease()
    Those functions can be used for easier capturing of key states. See the modified demo application, "demo/Dialog2.cc" for some demo.


• Video environment changes and/or improvements :
  • [COULD BE INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES] By default, the file "VideoEnvironment/DialogMacrosDeprecated.h" is no longer included by "VMain" nor "VMain.h". See the topic "Converting from Older Version of VortexGE" for further information concerning this matter.
  • A new class, CPixmapBuffer was added. This class can be used by the CImageDisplay and the CButton controls to share pixmaps.
  • New controls, CPopUpMenu and CMenuBar were added. See the modified demo application, "demo/Dialog2.cc" for some demo.
  • All the spin button styles of the CSpinButton class are now implemented. See the modified demo application, "demo/Dialog.cc" for some demo.
  • The CInputBoxML class now supports :
    • Cursor positioning using mouse (current view only, cannot scroll).
    • Text selection using mouse (current view only, cannot scroll).
    • Text selection using keyboard (can scroll).
    • Copying, deleting and replacing the selected text.
  • VortexGE should now support international characters as shortcut keys. Note that it only tested using xvkbd (virtual keyboard for X window system) version 2.7.


• Audio environment changes and/or improvements :
  • Added the support for loading Ogg Vorbis audio files.
  
  
• 3D environment changes and/or improvements :
  • New rendering-related functions are now available in the CPanel3DBuffer class :
    • SetExcludedColor()
    • TNRenderExcl()
    • TCRenderExcl()
    • TFRenderExcl()
    • TNTransRenderExcl()
    • TFTransRenderExcl()
    • FogTNRenderExcl()
    • FogTCRenderExcl()
    • FogTFRenderExcl()
    • FogTNTransRenderExcl()
    • FogTFTransRenderExcl()
    • FogTFTransRenderExcl()
  • New collision-related functions are now available in the CPanel3DBuffer class :
    • FullBBoxCollide()
    • IcpGroupBBoxCollide()
  • New bounding-box-related functions are now available in the CPanel3DBuffer class :
    • CalculateBoundingBox()
    • GetBoundingBox()
    • CalculateIcpGroupBoundingBox()
    • GetIcpGroupBoundingBox()
    Whenever possible, always use GetBoundingBox() and GetIcpGroupBoundingBox() rather than CalculateBoundingBox() and CalculateIcpGroupBoundingBox() because the former functions will try to get from their caches first rather than always perform recalculations.
  • Some new classes were added :
    • CParticle2D
    • CParticle2DNE
    These classes are the base classes for other particle 2D classes.


• Other changes and/or improvements :
  • Lua 5.1.3 is now used as the scripting engine backend. Note that some bug-fixing patches from the Lua's website (www.lua.org) are also applied; if you do not wish to use these patches, edit the file "3rdParty/buildScript/Makefile.lua" and remove the text -D__LUA_PATCH__ from one of the lines there.
  • VortexGE's multi-threading support was improved :
    • A new class, CThreadKey was added.
    • The function CThread::Initialize was improved; now users can specify the stack size of the thread.
  • VortexGE should be correctly built using GCC 4.2.x providing that :
    • The path to the new libstdc++ shared library file, "libstdc++.so.6.0.9" should be added to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable in order to run any VortexGE application if the library and/or the application was/were built using GCC 4.2.x.
    • For GCC 4.2.x, the option -O3 must not be used. The configuration script will change -O3 to compound options -O2 -finline-functions -fgcse-after-reload if GCC 4.2.x is detected.
  • Some configuration script fixes and improvements.
  • Some code refactorings and bug fixes.
  • Some more experiments on the game object classes.
  • Some documentation fixes and improvements.

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