v0.8.0

[timothyschoen]

Huge update!

• Updated to pd-0.54 with multichannel signals!
• Updated to ELSE-rc9 with many new objects and multi-channel support
• New logo by Bas de Bruin
• UI improvements
  • New add objects menu
  • Redesigned palette bar
  • Redesigned settings panel
  • Redesigned inspector
  • Redesigned deken
  • Redesigned Heavy dialog
  • Redesigned save dialog
  • Redesigned level meter
  • Redesigned object reference panel
  • Improved tab and palette drag and drop system
  • Fixed small UI alignment details everywhere
• New activity overlay will highlight objects that are generating messages
• New alignment options allow you to align or space objects evenly
• DAW parameters can now be float, int, exponential float or logarithmic float
• Many stability improvements
  • New systems are in place that make plugdata a lot more thread-safe
• plugdata's folder is now always in ~/Documents/plugdata, so location is no longer OS-specific
• Improvements to Heavy toolchain
• Improvements to object compatibility with pure-data, ELSE and cyclone.
• Fixed GraphOnParent size inconsistencies
• Small improvements to theming
• Deleting a folder in search path no longer causes crash
• PdControl can now open links
• Implemented "menunew" and "open" messages
• Fix broken encapsulate function
• Can now choose to send MIDI to a specific device in standalone, instead of always sending to all devices
• Fixed "vis" message to clone
• Fixed listbox sending output when created
• Fixed crash in Logic when loading a project with parameters
• Fixed various issues with $0 expansion in send/receive symbols
• Fixed weird output gain when enabling protected mode
• Connections are now locked in temp lock mode too
• Improved auto-patching behaviour
• Fixed many messages to pd objects not working
• And much more!

Thanks to @alcomposer @tomara-x @agraef @dromer @vasilymilovidov @caitp @haenkel for contributing. And thanks to everyone who reported bugs, thanks to you, plugdata is now more stable than ever!

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This discussion was created from the release v0.8.0.

[polarity]

nice work team! will have play with this tomorrow.

[mngyuan]

The right click menu now lacks Add->, and it's been moved to the new UI, which I find a lot less usable for having a complete reference that's quick to use. Is it possible to return this functionality to the right click menu?

[timothyschoen]

Yeah we could do this, more people have asked. I personally didn't like how the old menu was this huge popup, where a large part of the objects were hidden inside a submenu, but I'll consider bringing it back.

The idea of the new menu is that it both shows more options without needing submenus (24 now vs 8 before), and allows you to find stuff more quickly by recognizing icons (instead of having to read all the text).