November 1, 2023

Biggest Changes

• FlatRedBall works on FNA - currently requires from-source setup (thanks to @Arcnor )
• Lots of work improving FNA and AOT compiling support ( thanks to @Arcnor and @mfigueirido )
• Gum now uses System.Drawing.Color and System.Numerics.Vector2/3 in Gum instead of XNA types. This makes Gum more portable to non-XNA platforms (MAUI, SDL, Unity, etc) (thanks to @Arcnor )
• Add source command to project is now supported in more project types (Android, iOS, and even XNA4)
• If Edit Mode is added to a game, variable changes are applied even if not in edit mode, enabling faster iteration
• Big improvements in Gum layouts when moving between run and edit mode
• Added bottom preview window for embedded animation editor including previewing shapes (thanks to @zdman2022 )
• When creating a new project, FRB will check for FlatRedBall and Gum repositories and offer to link new game to source if they are found
• Recent Files now shows the game's icon
• Layers can now be re-ordered in live edit
• New Platformer projects have a wall slide animation built in
• Glue control code is now only generated if edit mode is enabled, removing tons of bloat
• Added ability to create new projects from local templates instead of only templates online - useful for testing new platforms
• FRB Editor supports localization ( thanks to @Lucasharskamp )

Everything Else

• Lots of warnings fixed in the FRB Editor (Glue with All.sln)
• AnimationEditor binaries now checked in to repository so users don't have to build this on their own with VS2019
• Fixed Tiled map merging when the map is sorted on Y axis (tall maps) and the map uses animated tiles
• FRB UWP has been removed from the new project options
• Adding a new abstract screen (usually GameScreen) shows warning immediately rather than requiring FRB restart
• FRB Editor is now smarter about reporting duplicates in csproj files
• FlatRedBall Editor Wizard now checks for Gum presence before running, and gives a warning if it is missing
• Viewport changing due to render target layers is now reset back to previous viewport
• Popup windows now position correctly when display is not 100%
• Fixed some UI thread deadlocks in FRB Editor
• Fixed error where CameraControllingEntity can get null added to a list.
• Fixed overflowing text in textbox that shows when setting an Entity to IVisible
• Objects defined by base now have a new icon
• Fixed bug causing custom slider min/max values to reset
• Fixed Live Edit crash when moving an object from one layer to another
• Pressing DEL now deletes a file from current files list
• Added right-click option on Collision Relationships node to add new collision relationship
• Added right-click option on Layer node
• Improvements in game going into edit mode to reduce the chances of lost commands
• GameScreen always shows Layer and Collision nodes since that's the most common place where these are added
• New icon shown in the loading window
• Added *.user.* to default gitignore
• Missing csproj files are removed from recent files
• Added checkbox to call activity on List creation, which is checked or unchecked depending on whether the entity type is derived. This can reduce the chances of double-activity calls. This includes a display of the reason for the activity call.
• Fixed partitioning bug causing collisions to be excluded from checks incorrectly
• Added EditorVisuals.ColoredRectangle which can surround a Text object to improve readability of debug displays.
• Improved FRB Editor display on high DPI displays
• Improvements in detecting .NET SDK location
• Double-clicking .achx file now searches for AnimationEditor in default location (unzipped FRBDK) so setting windows file associations is not required.
• Lots of improvements to linking game to source
  • Removed old menu items and replaced them with a single menu item which is enabled/disabled according to whether the project type supports linking to source
• FRB Editor can now find the running .exe if its name does not match the .gluj name
• Merging empty layers is now handled more gracefully
• Improved error reporting on TMX files when merging and textures do not match between the two layers