[chuck-users] 1.3.2.0 (chimera) released

Stefan Blixt stefan.blixt at gmail.com
Mon Sep 23 07:47:52 EDT 2013


Brilliant! Congratulations! :D


On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Spencer Salazar <
spencer at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> chuck 1.3.2.0 + miniAudicle 1.3.0 have been released:
>
> http://chuck.stanford.edu/release/
>
> Our first release in a year is an exciting one. In anticipation of a
> number of ChucK-based computer music education initiatives (the forthcoming
> book "Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists" and Coursera course of
> the same name), we have added a number of conspicuously absent features and
> libraries, alongside cleaning up a large number of
>
> The most significant change is to formally release chuck as an installer
> package on Mac OS X and Windows platforms. These installer packages include
> chuck, miniAudicle, related example files, and the standard set of chugins.
> (Separate installation of these components is possible but discouraged and
> not necessarily supported.) Linux, for the time being, is still released as
> separate source distributions.
>
> SerialIO will allow ChucK programmers to easily interact with serial-based
> hardware devices such as Arduino. A number of string processing utilities
> have been added. Furthermore, the clear.vm command will enable more dynamic
> on-the-fly development with public classes.
>
> In miniAudicle, the underlying application core on Windows/Linux has been
> completely rewritten in Qt, greatly improving stability and overall
> experience. A number of other features and improvements have been added.
>
> Special thanks to Ajay Kapur, Kassen, Mark Morris, Bruce Lott, Fernando
> Lopez-Lezcano, and Romain Michon.
>
> Best regards,
> Spencer, Ge, and the ChucK team.
>
> chuck
> 1.3.2.0
> ---
>   - (added) --clear.vm flag
>             instructs remote VM to remove all shreds and clear public user
> types
>   - (added) Std.ftoi(float f)
>             Function for converting float to int
>   - (added) ASCII char literals - 'c' converted to int with ASCII value
>   - (added) book/digital-artists example programs for forthcoming book:
>             "Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists" (Manning
>             Publications)
>             (very special thanks to Mark Morris and Bruce Lott for sample
>             production)
>   - (added) new functions
>             - me.path()
>               equivalent to me.sourcePath()
>             - me.dir()
>               equivalent to me.sourceDir()
>             - me.dir(int N)
>               return Nth-level parent of source directory
>             - Shred.fromId(int id)
>               return Shred object corresponding to specified id
>   - (added) new functions for string objects
>             - .charAt(int index)
>               return character of string at index
>             - .setCharAt(int index, int ch)
>               set character of string at index to ch
>             - .substring(int pos)
>               return new string with characters from pos to end of string
>             - .substring(int pos, int len)
>               return new string with characters from pos of length len
>             - .insert(int pos, string str)
>               insert str at pos
>             - .erase(int pos, int len)
>               remove len characters from string, beginning at pos
>             - .replace(int pos, string str)
>               replace characters of string at pos with str
>             - .replace(int pos, int len, string str)
>               replace len characters of string with str, starting at pos
>             - .find(int ch)
>               search for character ch in string, return index of first
> instance
>             - .find(int ch, int pos)
>               search for character ch in string, return index of first
> instance
>               at or after index pos
>             - .find(string str)
>               search for string str in string, return index of first
> instance
>             - .find(string str, int pos)
>               search for string str in string, return index of first
> instance at
>               or after index pos
>             - .rfind(int ch)
>               search for character ch in string, return index of last
> instance
>             - .rfind(int ch, int pos)
>               search for character ch in string, return index of last
> instance
>               at or before index pos
>             - .rfind(string str)
>               search for string str in string, return index of last
> instance
>             - .rfind(string str, int pos)
>               search for string str in string, return index of last
> instance at
>               or before index pos
>   - (added) MidiFileIn class
>             Class for parsing + handling MIDI input from a file.
>             See examples/midi/playmidi.ck for example usage.
>             - .open(string filename)
>               Open file at specified path
>             - .read(MidiMsg inMsg)
>               Get next message in first track
>             - .read(MidiMsg inMsg, int trackNo)
>               Get next message in trackNo
>   - (added) SerialIO class (extends IO)
>             Class for communicating with serial devices, e.g Arduino.
>             See examples/serial/ for example usage.
>             - .list() (static)
>               return array of strings corresponding
>               to available serial IO devices
>             - .open(int i, int baud, int mode)
>               open device with index i. baud can be a constant specifying
>               which standard serial baud rate is used (e.g.
>               SerialIO.B9600). mode can be SerialIO.ASCII or
>               SerialIO.BINARY to specify ASCII or binary interpretation
>               of serial data.
>             - .onLine()
>             - .onByte()
>             - .onBytes(int num)
>             - .onInts(int num)
>             - .onFloats(int num)
>               chuck to now to wait for that type of data to arrive (in the
>               specified quantity). E.g. serial.onLine() => now; will wait
>               for 1 newline-terminated string to arrive from the serial
>               device.
>             - .getLine()
>               .getByte()
>               retrieve data requested as above as string/byte
>             - .getBytes()
>               .getInts()
>               .getFloats()
>               retrieve data requested using the onLine()/etc. above. as
> array
>               of data type
>             - .baudRate()
>               .baudRate(int baud)
>               get/set baud rate
>             - SerialIO.B2400
>               SerialIO.B4800
>               SerialIO.B9600
>               SerialIO.B19200
>               SerialIO.B38400
>               SerialIO.B7200
>               SerialIO.B14400
>               SerialIO.B28800
>               SerialIO.B57600
>               SerialIO.B115200
>               SerialIO.B230400
>               available baud rates
>   - (added) Regex class
>             Class for regular expression matching and replacing in
> strings.
>             Regex style is POSIX-extended.
>             - RegEx.match(string pattern, string str)
>               Return true if match for pattern is found in str, false
> otherwise
>             - RegEx.match(string pattern, string str, string matches[])
>               Same as above, but return the match and sub-patterns in
> matches
>               matches[0] is the entire matched pattern, matches[1] is the
> first
>               sub-pattern (if any), and so on.
>             - RegEx.replace(string pat, string repl, string str)
>               Replace the first instance of pat in str with repl,
> returning the
>               result.
>             - RegEx.replaceAll(string pat, string repl, string str)
>               Replace all instances of pat in str with repl, returning the
>               result.
>   - (fixed) --adc:<N> now works as expected
>   - (fixed) FileIO => string bug
>   - (fixed) LiSa.sync/LiSa.track now works when set to
>             1 (playhead follows input, normalized/rectified to [0,1])
>             2 (playhead follows input, non-normalized/rectified)
>             affects examples/special/LiSa-track*.ck
>   - (fixed) LiSa interpolation bug
>   - (fixed) .clear() function of arrays properly removes all items of the
> array
>   - (fixed) != properly handles comparison between a string and literal
> null
>   - (fixed) multichannel refcounting bug
>   - (fixed) WvOut performs IO writes on separate thread, significantly
>             minimizing audio underruns
>   - (fixed) crash in Chorus destructor
>   - (fixed) crash in Mandolin destructor
>   - (fixed) ADSR correctly initialized in "DONE" state
>
>
> miniAudicle
> ---
> 1.3.0
>     - (added) chuck-1.3.2.0
>     - (added)(Win/Linux) completely new GUI architecture based on Qt
>     - (added) Clear VM function -- remove all shreds and reset public user
> types
>     - (added) export as WAV + Ogg + M4A (Mac only) + MP3 (if lame exe
> present)
>     - (added) examples browser
>     - (added) editor tabs
>     - (added) complex/polar type names highlighted
>     - (added) highlight chout/cherr
>     - (added) Class/UGen type names highlighted
>     - (added)(Windows) .ck file association and double-click to open in
> shell
>     - (fixed) better read-only file handling
>     - (fixed)(Mac) chugin browser icons not appearing in 10.5/10.6
>     - (fixed)(Mac) better MAUI stability
>     - (fixed)(Windows) Windows XP emulation mode no longer required on
> Vista/7
>
>
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