v1.4.2 — Bug fixes, room editor improvements, more input types for modules, and other QoL improvements

✨ New Features

• Add tag catmod, for adding tags for individual copies and rooms.
• Add a properties panel for tweaking parameters of an individual copy.
• Add PIXI.MultiStyleText module.
• Add support for moddable extensions for individual copies.
• Add texture generator for placeholders.
• Background color control for rooms (finally!)
• Code completions now suggest names of types, rooms, sounds, actions, and emitters.
• ct.place.moveByAxes and this.moveContinuousByAxes for easy movement at platformers and top-down games.
• ct.place.moveAlong now checks against tiles too
• Fast integer scaling mode for ct.fittoscreen, for purely pixel art projects.
• Hide default cursor at Project -> Render Options -> Hide system cursor
• Import a texture by pasting it from a clipboard. Will update an existing opened texture as well!
• In the room editor, Shift+Click now selects the nearest copy or tile.
• New select input type for catmods, as an alternative to radio
• Nightly builds at comigo.itch.io/ct-nightly.
• Seeded random for ct.random module
• slider, sliderAndNumber input types for extensions, and additional settings for them and number inputs.
• Sort copies or tiles inside a room with two new buttons at the top-left corner of the room editor. Extremely handy for isometric games!
• Toggle UI sounds in the Main menu -> Settings

⚡️ General Improvements

• A popup to quickly fix backgrounds at the room editor if their texture is not marked for tiled use.
• Add .itch.toml to simplify run dialog on Linux.
• Add dnd-processor tag that solves edge cases with drag-and-drop behavior and allows dropping any supported files on any tab.
• Add icons that highlight deprecated and preview modules more clearly.
• Better zooming controls for room, texture, and emitter editors.
• Change build, projects', export folders to be stored under the ~/ct.js/ directory.
• Change ct.fs to use app data directories for Linux, Windows, macOS (#226 by @JulianWebb).
• Decrease threshold that differentiated clicks and drags in the room editor, improving placing behavior of multiple tiles/copies.
• Improve preview making process for textures.
• Improve tile positioning algorithm for the room editor.
• Minor UI improvements for the texture viewer.
• Position context menus so that they don't exceed viewport's size.
• Rename "Author" field at settings into "Developer" (i18n strings only).
• Scale smaller tilesets to fit the tile picker, at the room editor.
• Update Russian UI translation.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• A workaround for 'oncancel' not being fired on input(type="file") tags. Fixes an issue with invisible inputs overlaying the main menu.
• Add the missing CSS directive for pixelated projects.
• Fix checkboxes at extensions and module settings not showing the actual value's state
• Fix ct.mouse returning old coordinates if a camera has moved, but a cursor hasn't.
• Fix incorrect drawing of scaled copies in the room editor.
• Fix issues with camera movement at room editor with extreme zooming factors.
• Fix modules' extensions being parsed at the exporter if they have undefined or unset (equal to -1) secondary keys.
• Fix overflow issues and wrong initial values for bitmap font generator.
• Fix regression from v1.4 with blurry particle editor and room view when pixel art rendering was enabled.
• Fix user-select CSS parameter on modules' docs panel.
• Hotfix: fix font import issues on Windows, as well as fix potential similar issues for other asset types

🍱 Demos, Dependencies and Stuff

• Bump various catmods' versions.
• Update electron-packager to v15.0.0. Fixes build issues for Windows.

📝 Docs

• Add info about moddable copies' extensions
• Add the missing link to the bitmap fonts page in the navigation panel.
• At the platformer tutorial, fix a typo in collectibles title.
• Document new input types slider and sliderAndNumber, as well as additional settings for them
• Fix small error in describing key input in the asteroid shooter tutorial.
• Fixed bitmap fonts docs. The font in the constructor should be an object.
• Specify the tab for enemy/asteroid generation code at space shooter tutorial.

🌐 Website

• ✨ Presskit

🌚 Misc

• 🔥 Remove keymage.js, as it is not used anymore
• 🔥 Remove keymaster.js, as it is not used anymore

Hotfix: solve issues with older projects, custom scripts, and room editor

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix indefinite behavior after placing copies and switching to the properties tab in the room editor
• Fix loading error while migrating a project without tile layers to v1.4.0
• Fix regression with custom script typings: they were not loaded on project load
• Fix type picker being empty right after opening the room editor
• Icons in the room editor, on the left side, should be centered if no labels are shown next to them.

Bitmap fonts, integrated debugger, ct.inherit, modules overhaul, and more!

✨ New Features

• Bitmap fonts — see new docs on how to use them. These fonts solve issues with blurry pixel art fonts in games, and also provide higher performance for dynamic text!
• ct.assert module for readable checks in ct.js projects
• ct.camera now supports direct assignment for its scale, e.g. ct.camera.scale = 1.5;
• ct.inherit module that allows you to call parents' code and keep things DRY
• Custom font selector in the style editor
• Lucas Dracula theme — A rough port of Arkham theme for VSCode by @lucasmsa
• Modding: onbeforecreate injection
• Modding: A code input type for monospace text input
• Modding: Add point2D input type for modules' settings and injections
• Modding: Add extensions for rooms with roomExtends field
• Modding: Add extensions to tile layers with tileLayerExtends field
• Modding: Both module settings and asset extensions now can use all the input fields that were previously exclusive to either modules' settings or type extensions
• Module's settings are now parts of the Project Settings' tab
• Quickly create a new type by right-clicking an asset in the textures panel
• Unified module's docs in the side panel

⚡️ General Improvements

• Allow ct.fittoscreen to toggle fullscreen mode while being in an electron app (in a desktop build)
  Closes #155
• Allow games enter fullscreen while being in the debugger
  See #155
• Better project selector background for night themes
• Better layout of a type editor
• Change ct.place.tile to check against collision groups (new!) instead of depth
• Improve the Horizon theme
• Make the structural behavior of TileLayer consistent. Fixes drawing issues with tiles and ct.place debug mode
• Minor UI fixes for the project selector
• More logical color hierarchy — you will see subtle changes in how certain panels are colored in dark and light themes, and all themes should now have uniform look and feel
• Move depth input at the type editor into a scroll box, on par with module-provided fields
• New icons for the top panel
• Refurbish project's settings screen
• Remove empty "help" field from ct.place > module.json
• Replace node-static for dev and docs servers with serve-handler. Solves rare race conditions while loading docs or a game.
• Show a loading icon while exporting project
• The left button group at the topmost tab bar now occupies less space on wider screens
• Update Russian UI translation
• Update Spanish translation for ct.IDE. Update by Stuck Up Creations from the Discord server ✨
• Update debug translation file and comments file
• Use less restrictive YAML reader/writer to allow some minor save file errors

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Do not reuse tiles directly from room templates
  Closes #191
• Fix blank autocompletion list at room-events-editor
  Closes #195
• Fix ct.tween.add not working as expected for useUiDelta
  See #198
• Fix the first tile layer not being added into a drawing stack at room-editor, which made tiles invisible unless a copy or background was added
  Closes #206
• Fix wrong default setting for ct.fittoscreen module
• Replace unzipper module and fix issues with module imports

🍱 Demos, dependencies and Stuff

• Update Howler.js to v2.2.0

📝 Docs

• Split "Making catmods" docs into several pages;
• Document the usage of new asset extensions and input types;
• Document the usage of BitmapFonts;
• Update screenshots and directions for tutorials, to reflect UI changes in v1.4.

👾 Misc

• 🔥 Remove export options: HTML and CSS are now always minified, and JS conversion never worked correctly
• 🔥 Remove a button in the nav that toggles the fullscreen view
• Minor fixes to the debugger files (#197 by @leedigital)

A hotfix that adds examples again + bundles the needed version of docs

v1.3.1

v1.3.1

Particle systems, UI layers and room nesting, ct.deltaUi and much more

✨ New Features

• 🌐 Add a Chinese Simplified translation (#164 by @emaoshushu)
• 🌐 Add a Polish translation by Voltinus from Discord 🎉
• 🌐 Add Dutch language to IDE (#182 by @BartInTheField)
• Add a "troubleshooting" submenu to main ct.js menu
• Add a reset() method to CtAction
• Add ct.deltaUi for steady UI animations at slowmo effects
• Add ct.gamepad module, made by collective efforts from @leedigital, SN from Discord, and Comigo
• Add touch controls for catformer and catsteroids (#178 by @naturecodevoid)
• Allow to set depth through extensions in ct.types.copy fourth parameter
• An onboarding screen when creating a new project
• Catmods can now express their dependencies on other mods with dependencies and optionalDependencies fields
• Configure texture's padding to avoid bleeding artifacts on strongly scaled textures
• ct.camera, UI and game coordinates, and nested rooms
• ct.fs - a module for working with files and game saves
• ct.transitions for nice and smooth transitions in your game!
• ct.types.exists to check whether a given copy exists in game's world
• ct.timer (#179 by @naturecodevoid)
• Dark theme support in docs panel
• Favicons and customizable loader for your games, at your project's Settings tab
• New injection for catmods — rooms.js
• Particle systems, yaaay! 🎉
• Reorder scripts at your project's Settings tab (#181 by @naturecodevoid)
• Rotate copies in the room editor through a context menu
• Stretch debugger's console and flip its layout
• The sidebar in the room editor is now resizeable
• UI scale in ct.IDE (#180 by @naturecodevoid, see it in the hamburger menu > Settings)

⚡️ General Improvements

• 🌐 Update Debug and Russian translation files
• 🌐 Update French translation (#176 by @FoobarIT)
• 🌐 Update German translation (#153 and #172 by @Wend1go)
• ct.flow, ct.u.wait, ct.tween now operate based on ct.delta, with optional ct.deltaUi mode (#179 by @naturecodevoid)
• Add a bit of logic to reset crop size on single-frame textures
• Add a spacer between "Image's center" and "Isometrify" buttons in the texture editor
• Add home-brewed i18n coverage reports and language file checkers to CI
• Add simple typings for window and document
• Add typings for ct.rooms.list
• Change cursor to "progress" state when exporting a project
• Export games as an electron app. Bonus: new supported architectures! ✨
• Forbid building for Mac from Windows, because Windows is shit
• Improve error message with broken TTF fonts
• Improve typings for Copy.tex
• Improve typings for ct.camera
• Lay out language menu in two columns
• Remove the extra border at a room's script editor
• Remove unnecessary update after a skeleton was imported
• Replace icons for rooms and textures
• Run some tasks of the exporter in parallel, shortening the time it takes to compile your games
• Set starting mode for desktop games: windowed, fullscreen, or maximized
• Store projects in YAML format: better conflict resolving in git and more human-readable source files
• Types now automatically rename to the name of a picked sprite
• UI: Add a margin to the "Settings" header on the same-called tab
• Update ct.vkeys to work with the new UI coordinate system
• Update typings for ct.tween
• Variables defined in scripts at the settings tab are now visible by code editors. No more red squiggles!

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Add missing typings for sessionStorage and localStorage, that are needed for saving game data in a browser
• Add missing typings for xstart and ystart in copies
• Add the missing depth property of the Copy class
• Add the missing typing for ct.rooms.current
• Ensure that "includes" folder exists when opening it through the main menu, as it may be absent, e.g. after pulling a new project from a git repo
• Fix 3D sounds of sound.howler
• Fix a case when this.kill is applied to backgrounds or tilesets and ct.js can't delete them
• Fix broken button that moves all copies in a room editor
• Fix broken ct.mouse Wheel input
• Fix context menu in the Fonts section > "rename" command doing nothing
• Fix issues with re-imported textures
• Fix OnDestroy not always being called on copies that got deleted because of others' OnDestroy code
• Fix shadow style on notepad panel on dark themes
• Fix style issues at html.js
• Fix the bug when importing a module if it does not contain a parent directory (#157 by @leedigital)
• Fix the incorrect typing for ct.speed
• In ct.touch, mouse clicks should trigger Any, Double, Triple inputs
• Prevent images in a room's type picker from dragging
• Remove extra border at the top of type's code editor
• Show imported fonts immediately
• Update ct.fittoscreen to work with high-density screens

🍱 Demos and Stuff

• Add full JettyCat example
• High-quality textures for Memocats
• Improvements of examples
• Pull the latest docs
• Refurbish Catsteroids example: add a boss battle, new bonus, and new graphics
• Update Yarn Spinner example

📝 Docs

• ✨ New tutorial: JettyCat
• Indent the warning about shape optimizations in ct.place.tile
• Add a link to Discord server at the issue creating screen
• Add missing quotation mark in mouse catmod changelog (#173 by @Wend1go)
• Fix "optionable" in docs for ct.transition

🌻 Misc

• 🔥 Remove ct.libs property from exported games

Hotfix: enable legacy renderer inside ct.IDE so that style editor does not break everything

If ct.js works with WebGL for you, then you can safely skip this hotfix. It fixes a problem with those PCs that don't support WebGL.

🐛 Bug fixes

• ct.IDE should use pixi.js-legacy internally as well, otherwise style editor breaks everything

A new code editor, support for legacy devices, and other improvements

✨ New Features

• A new, better code editor with live type checks, built-in doc popups, and more!
• Add a render option to include a legacy renderer for older browsers
• Choose a custom folder for a project when creating it (#138 by @leedigital)
• Hotkeys for most tabs and resource creation
• Import modules from a *.zip file, in the Catmods tab (#142 by @leedigital)
• Patreon screen
• Resize the viewport with ct.width and ct.height
• Show/Hide the mouse cursor with ct.mouse.show, ct.mouse.hide (#143 by @Wend1go)

⚡️ General Improvements

• Add a finally method for cutscene's promise-like objects
• Add patreon translation to German (#140 by @Wend1go)
• Allow to change ct.fittoscreen's scaling mode at game's runtime
• Create dummy typedefs for modules that don't provide them

🐛 Bug Fixes

• An asset should not be allowed to apply if it has an already occupied name
• Fix broken zipped projects on windows
• Fix multiple tiles not being placed while the Shift key is pressed
• Fix non-working export settings on really old projects
• Show proper error message when switching to a non-existent room (#144 by @Wend1go)
• Update DragonBones and fix issues with skeleton import

🍱 Demos and Stuff

• Add typedefs for ct.tween
• Add typings for ct.cutscene
• Add typings for ct.random
• Add typings for ct.vkeys
• Complete typings for ct.eqs
• Typedefs for ct.flow
• Typedefs for ct.touch
• Typedefs for ct.yarn
• Typings for ct.fittoscreen
• Typings for ct.sprite

📝 Docs

• Document ct.width and ct.height
• 🐛 Fix mistakes in ct.eqs' docs
• ✨ Complete translation of Pt-BR docs
• ⚡ Add a clarification to the second variant of a platform's code at tut-making-platformer
• ⚡ Document the process of adding typedefs for modules
• ⚡ Update tut-making-platformer.md (by @Eilandis)

🌐 Website

• 🐛 Fix a link to site's code license in the footer
• 🐛 Fix emojis in 1.1.0 changelog entry
• 🐛 Fix links in reusable stuff
• ✨ A proper language selector
• ✨ PT-BR translation on ct.js-site (by @GumpFlash)
• ⚡ Add a translated contact form for Russian locale
• ⚡ Better adaptivity
• ⚡ Better handling of optionally translated pages
• ⚡ Make the page "made with ct.js" dynamic and based on itch.io engine page
• ⚡ Tons of improvements here and there
• ⚡ Tons of new icons

Pt-Br translations, easier collision editing, ct.place bug fixes, Yarn support, and even more!

✨ New Features

• Add a debug mode to ct.place (you can find it in the settings tab)
• texture-editor: Add the Symmetry tool for polygonal shapes (by @schadocalex)
• Add Iosevka as a default typeface for code, allow setting your own typeface, control line height and ligatures
• Open the includes folder from the hamburger menu
• Support for nested copies (#127) by @schadocalex
• Support for Yarn (a tool for making dialogues and interactive fiction), powered by bondage.js
• texture-editor: Directly add/remove shape points on texture with your mouse. Add a point by clicking on the yellow line segments, delete points by clicking on them (by @schadocalex)

⚡️ General Improvements

• Add Pt-Br translation of UI by Folha de SP from Discord
• Better checkboxes, radio inputs, and other fields
• Better styling of inline code fragments in the modules panel
• Better texture-editor layout
• Better, more readeable tables in module's docs
• Change Horizon colors a bit to make it more pleasant to look at
• Highlight code blocks at modules panel
• Improve texture packing
• Make module list and their details scroll independently
• Remove excess borders in nested views
• Remove excess borders on module panels
• Remove old language keys, add Comments.json, Debug.json
• Rename "Is tiled" property of textures to "Use as background", hide splitting tools if used as background
• texture-editor: Make the axis handle squared (by @schadocalex)
• texture-editor: Zooming in/out now works when scrolling outside the texture as well (by @schadocalex)
• Tiny UI improvements, here and there

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 📝 Replace Lato's license with Open Sans', as we don't use Lato
• Color inputs should show white value on a dark background from the very start
• Fix broken style editor
• Fix numerous collision problems that appeared with rotated entities
• Fix the checkbox "close the shape", as it didn't change the actual state before
• Stop chromium from messing up with color profiles and colors in ct.js

🍱 Demos and Stuff

• Add a Yarn demo

📝 Docs

• Document the alpha property of copies
• ⚡ Update Troubleshooting — teared backgrounds
• 🐛 Update tut-making-shooter.md (by @Eilandis)
• Pt-Br translation by @leedigital 🎉

🌐 Website

• 🐛 Fix an outdated link to downloads in the header
• ✨ Add partial Russian translation
• ⚡ Align social icons at the footer to the right

Fix desktop export, add support for OGG, and improve docs

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix broken desktop export, as well as non-catched errors
• Fix textures' "frame count" property not working (#120) by @island205 🎉
• Update parameter names in ct.sprite's readme

⚡ General improvements

• Add support for OGG audio files

Docs

• 🐛 Fix the use of ct.height in Making Shooter tutorial when ct.viewHeight is needed
• ⚡ Change the title of "Troubleshooting: Background splits into squares!" so that it covers tiles as well
• Add a page "Troubleshooting: Sounds don't play at the game start!"
• Document ct.u.degToRad, ct.u.radToDeg
• Document ct.u.rotate, ct.u.rotateRad

A number of bug fixes

v 1.0.1

5 September 2019.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix the broken sound import
• Fix improper movement of vertically repeating backgrounds
• Add actions to new projects. Fixes the issue with "project.actions are not iterable"

⚡ General improvements

• Update Open Sans font, so it supports extended Latin characters

🐙 Misc

• Remove the deprecated copies' method this.draw