Version 2.2.0

Changelog

Commits from v2.1.0 to v2.2.0

Andrew Mickelson (36 commits)

• Bump to v2.2.0
• Issue #250 - Fix improper handling of "Upos" joystick axis
• Added scraping of game overview text from thegamesdb.net
• Added configure option to disable scraping of mamedb.com
• Fixed "Toggle Layout" when used on the displays menu layout
• Added layout options configuration for 'Displays Menu' layout
• [rpi] Issue #266 - Fix for keypresses being cached w/ sfml-pi build (non-X11)
• Added ability to set image origin in scripts (for centre rotations etc)
• Added customized layouts for the diplays menu/system selection menu
• Issue #264 - fixed SWF crash when unimplemented actionscript constant types encountered
• Added a no border window mode
• Issue #258 - Windows 10 v.1607 task bar fix (Fullscreen Mode)
• Limit the squirrel script functions available when gathering plugin descriptions
• Added an "RGB Movie" mode to the screensaver
• Updated the "Keyboard Search" plugin so "Back" clears the current search
• [linux] Fixed potential hang when waiting for emulator exit
• Issue #262 - Fixed sound volume setting after game return
• Added ability to generate multi-emulator romlists to the configuration interface.
• Misc. fixes to internationalization, updated italian translation
• Minor changes to mutex usage in media player
• Added ability to set a custom executable and arguments for each game
• Added an "Edit Game" action
• Fixed jumping cursor bug when using keyboard to edit
• Refactor of thegamesdb_scraper()
• Updates to the italian translation (P. Ghezzo)
• Fix cancel using the back button during scraping
• Added basic ability to edit text using a control pad (in config mode)
• [rpi] Default to "Fill Screen Mode" on the Raspberry Pi
• [linux] fix focus issues with exit hotkeys and "fullscreen mode"
• Issue #246 - Added ability to import mame listsoftware format xml
• Issue #247 - fixed the "Show in cycle" display setting
• Fixed memory leak when video frames are dropped
• Issue #245 - fixed fade module getting stuck when no image found
• [rpi] Issue #236 - Initial addition of MMAL video decoder support
• Issue #231 - revert to not randomizing artwork
• Issue #232 - fixed scraping of random system artworks
• Added Italian translation (author: P. Ghezzo)

Dave Wongillies (1 commits)

• Minor changes to Debian packaging

Jeffrey Clark (1 commits)

• osx package: work around libhfs dmg bug

Rob Loach (1 commits)

• Add Dolphin configuration

Version 2.1.0

Changelog

Commits from v2.0.0 to v2.1.0

Andrew Mickelson (14 commits)

• Version 2.1.0
• Issue #227 - randomly select artwork when matches are available from multiple paths
• Issue #228 - Fixed a couple of bugs when menus (exit, etc) are triggered by a joystick move
• [windows] Issue #199 - Console hiding is now configurable in attract.cfg. Default is off.
• [linux] Issue #228 - Fix "Z" and "R" joystick axes
• Added 6 second timeout when mapping a new input.
• Issue #225 - fix --build-romlist mame --full when no files found
• Issue #124 - Added support for hotkey combos
• [linux] Fixed emulator 'exit hotkey'
• Issue #167 - Filter by button count.
• Issue #216 - separate UI menu navigation (up.down,left,right,back,sel)
• [linux,rpi] Fixes when running emulator (in "Fullscreen Mode")
• [rpi] Allow changing the window mode setting on the rpi version
• Issue #215 - fix crash in fe.get_art() when image is missing

Jeffrey Clark (3 commits)

• fix build when TR1 enabled
• support for libavcodec < 55.16
• replace deprecated AVPicture

Version 2.0.0

Changelog

Commits from v2.0.0-rc3 to v2.0.0

Andrew Mickelson (15 commits)

• Fix creation of config directory when no trailing slash specified at command line
• Issue #214 - fix artwork update when un-faving a favourite
• Issue #200 - Fix Vid.ImagesOnly flag for multiple directories
• Fixed crash in text when word_wrap is enabled
• back out commit 7d74b2e
• Fix "Minimum Run Time" setting on OS X and Windows
• Issue #207: use mkdir -p in Makefile
• Update attract.rc strings
• [Windows] Issue #199 - request focus after exiting game
• Minor compile updates (docs, freetype2 include)
• Added support for .ttc True Type Fonts
• From ArcadeBliss: Fix fade.nut to fallback to layout if missing artwork
• --full command line flag now works for listsoftware scraping
• From chrisvg: updated pan and scan module to 1.2
• Added chrisvg's updated intro and LEDBlinky scripts

Jeffrey Clark (3 commits)

• attracman: mirror player sprite instead of rotate and hide ghosts on death
• attracman: refactor playfield data
• intro: improved auto ar selection

Matthew Barnes (2 commits)

• Restore movie volume setting in post-run
• Cools: Fix off-by-one error in ToNewList transition

Version 2.0.0 - RC3

Changelog

Commits from v2.0.0-rc2 to v2.0.0-rc3

Andrew Mickelson (10 commits)

• Added a reference to the "Intro to Squirrel" wiki page in Layouts.md
• Added chrisvg's pan-and-scan module
• [Windows] Issue #193 - slight rework of code that waits for emulator return
• Fixed crash when generating mame romlist
• Issue #191 - fix preserve_aspect_ratio image positioning on rotated images
• Fix crash (display change with empty romlist)
• Friendlier make output
• Improved emulator "System Identifier" settings
• Fixed loading of images from zip archives with subfolders
• Fixed some layout and module path issues, added liquid8d's preserve-art module

Jeffrey Clark (3 commits)

• cleanup some clang warnings
• fix win32 FE_DEBUG compile and cleanup warnings
• minor build cleanup

Version 2.0.0 - RC2

Changelog

Commits from v2.0.0-rc1 to v2.0.0-rc2

Andrew Mickelson (4 commits)

• Consistent capitalization and naming of layouts
• Fix animate module for linux system-wide installs
• [Windows] Fix broken loading of animate module on windows
• FFMpeg: PIX_FMT_* -> AV_PIX_FMT_*

Jeffrey Clark (1 commits)

• package scripts, only remove abbreviated object from version tag

Version 2.0.0 - RC1

Changelog

Commits from v1.6.2 to v2.0.0-rc1

Andrew Mickelson (48 commits)

• Bump to version 2.0.0
• Change memory management of zip file buffer
• Added missing language string (add/remove favourites)
• Fix order of StartLayout transitions
• Issue #186 - release audio before launching an emulator
• Enable background loading for swf files
• Issue #183 - fixed first launch crash
• Force swf texture heights to a multiple of 4
• Added option to go directly to the "Displays Menu" at startup
• Various improvements (Hyperspin and SWF related)
• Speed up swf loading
• Added USE_GLES make flag
• Added transparent backgrounds for swf files
• Preliminary support for displaying Hyperspin themes
• Fixed another gameswf access violation
• Fixed access violation in gameswf
• Added ability for scripts to get the index of the current Display
• Fixed the NO_SWF build
• Added option for how artwork is presented to the attrac-man layout
• Issue #178 - fixed artwork path format regression
• Issue #176 - Fixed video pixel aspect ratio
• Removed abandoned files: fe_icon.hpp, attract.cbp
• Save displays under the correct "display" tag in our config file
• Show plugin descriptions when browsing plugins in config mode
• Added ability to query Display setttings and set the Display from layout/plugin scripts
• Added config options for when a display gets shown
• Rearranged layout loader so xml gets done last
• "mess" scraper improvements
• Added a cache for zip file contents to improve performance
• Make it a bit easier to load a script from inside a zip file
• Issue #173 - configuration menu now always uses the default font
• Issue #175 - Support zipped artwork
• Fixed hang during scraping
• Pause video playback when scraping and generating rom lists
• Issue #171 - Snaps / Videos only working with full fixed drived location
• Issue #172 - Allow 'Themeable' Display/Filter/Exit/Overlay menus
• Fixed setting of rows and background colour in listboxes
• Update progress in UI when calculating CRCs
• Match roms based on CRC (if we can) when doing -listsoftware list building
• Save processing by caching paths used repeatedly in script handling
• Reorganization of scaper
• Issue #170 - improved logging of errors from thegamesdb.net
• Issue #166 - Fixed changing window mode causing a blank screen
• Added ability to get/set an object's zorder in layout and plugin scripts
• Issue #165 - workaround for FFmpeg not recognizing xmv files
• Issue #163 - Added "preserve_aspect_ratio" setting for entire layout

Jeffrey Clark (8 commits)

• Count merge commits in version
• Fix dirty source version
• fix build error (typo)
• Cleanup version handling
• Refactor windows package script
• Fix missing UINT64_C when compiling with ffmpeg support
• Fix FE_DEBUG windres build error
• Hide console instead of closing it, fixes #164

Version 1.6.2

Changelog

Commits from v1.6.0 to v1.6.1

Andrew Mickelson (22 commits)

• Bump to version 1.6.1
• Issue #162 - improved support for importing mame (-listxml format) files
• attracman layout - made sounds files configurable from user interface.
• added ability to get the actual width of text
• added load_from_archive() function for loading script images and sounds
• Added sound support to the attracman layout
• Added debian packaging files
• Fix some divide by zero errors.
• Scrape platform images as well when scraping from thegamesdb.net
• Updated emulator info_source settings on account of mess/mame merger
• Fixed missing controller and video info when parsing mess / mame -listsoftware
• Added [System] and [SystemN] magic tags
• Added 7zip, rar, gzip and bz2 support (if libarchive is available)
• Issue #159 - Fixed magic tokens empty values bug + path problems with shaders
• Issue #120 - added functionality to let plugins show search results
• [OS X] re-added mouse "hiding" for OS X, trying to avoid triggering corners
• 8 second timeout on scraper http requests
• Show more progress info when scraping/parsing mame output
• Made "hide brackets in name" option also hide text after a forward slash /
• Issue #157 - added support for modules in a subdirectory
• Added KeyboardSearch plugin
• Issue #128 - added config option to disable multimonitor support

Jeffrey Clark (3 commits)

• Windows resource with icon
• Close windows console automatically when starting from GUI
• osx packaging corrections

Phil Eichinger (3 commits)

• Makefile: ensure $(DESTDIR)$(DATA_PATH) exists before copying config to it
• Fix Depends for install on Debian Jessie
• debian-package: fix Build-Depends

Version 1.6

Noteworthy changes with this release:

• SWF file support (experimental)
• Layouts and plugins can now be contained in zip files
• OS X packaging improvements
• Added ability to set filter exceptions
• Added intro mode to optionally show intro video
• Added German, Japanese and Korean translations
• Added mame video scraping (progettosnaps.net)
• Many many bug fixes (including FLV videos not playing, resolution dependent pinch/skew effects, and multimonitor not working on 64-bit windows).

See Changelog.txt for a detailed list of the changes

Version 1.5.3

This is a Windows-specific release, with bugfixes for multiple monitor support and UNC paths.

Version 1.5.2

New Features:

• Raspberry pi support.
• Multiple monitor support [Windows and Linux]
• Artwork scraper added to automatically download missing snapshots, marquees, wheel logos, flyers, boxart and even fanart images.
• Improved support for different image formats.
• Spanish translation [thanks Seru!]
• Added fade effect module for layouts (see reflect layout and the fanart background option in cools' layout)

Bug Fixes:

• Keep focus if keys get mashed during startup and Attract-Mode is the windows shell.
• Fixed jarring video resets in the filter-grid layout
• Various fixes for MaLa layout loading
• Fix for audio decoding after an error occurs