1.8

New features, improvements, and bug fixes from @ebeneliason 🙏.

Features:

• set custom easing and durations for panel transition animations
• enable rapid advancing through panels (without waiting for transition animations)
• use the crank as advance trigger in auto-advancing sequences (with sensitivity controls)
• invert colors in multicolor fonts

Improvements

• set lineHeightAdjustment for all text layers in a panel
• text layers now properly fade in when their opacity is animated

Bug fixes:

• cutscenes with multiple sequences now work properly
• fixed crash when cutscenes have different background colors
• background colors for multiline text are now drawn at the correct size

1.7.4

• add a Panels.haltCutscene() function to help clean up a cutscene that was interrupted before completing (like from the system menu)

1.7.3

• fixed issue where pixelLock layers were flickering on devices with Playdate OS 2.3.1

1.7.2

• fixed positioning on pixel-locked layers
• fixed an issue where user's current sequence wasn't being loaded from the game data (#19)
• fixed an issue where sequences with long transitions could still receive input while transitioning (#18)

1.7.1

More performance improvements. Thanks to @anbjoernskov!

1.7

Features:

• add setting for defaultFontFamily
• add setting for menuFontFamily
• add pixelLock layer property to reduce flickering on dithered images

Improvements:

• improve rendering performance on oversized panels
• fix caching for static text layers

1.6.2

• fix and issue where advanceControl wasn't properly triggering in AUTO scrolling sequences with oversize panels
• fix an issue where setting an advanceFunction on an oversize panels would break sequence scrolling

1.6.1

• fix issue where showAdvanceControl = false didn't work properly

1.6.0

Features

• track global variables with Panels.vars
• new updateFunction lets you perform logic without needing to take over panel rendering
• Panels.renderLayerInPanel() simplifies rendering panels from custom a renderFunction
• endSequence specifies dead end branches in nonlinear comics

1.5.3

• fix an issue in nonlinear comics where sequence index gets out of sync after choosing a branching path