LifeViewer Release Notes
Written by Chris Rowett
-- Last update 25 April 2024
Build 1137
- fixed an issue with tokenizing custom rule names containing commas
Build 1136
- check that embedded @RULE definitions match the rule name
Build 1135
- fixed randomizing a non-deterministic HROT pattern
Build 1134
- draw cells above bounded grid border at Zoom < 1
Build 1133
- fixed Custom nighborhood display in Help->Pattern->N'Hood
Build 1132
- fixed HROT Custom neighbourhood orientation
Build 1131
- enable Angle and Tilt to be set by script commands for none rule
Build 1130
- fixed a layer rendering issue at Zoom < -16x
Build 1129
- improved layer rendering when layers go through multiple 2^-n zoom ranges
Build 1128
- performance improvement for 2-state patterns when drawing tiles containing only dead cells
- always switch to Pan mode when Population Graph opened
- fixed a [[ KILLGLIDERS ]] crash
- fixed layers sometimes rendering previous generation
- fixed layers with bounded grid rendering removing cells at distance zooms
- fixed Population Graph being a cell behind updates at T=0
Build 1127
- do not display Settings menu titles if display height is too low
Build 1126
- fix spurious "Show Pattern Error" link on forum
- fix Golly Theme colour for HROT multi-state and two state rules
Build 1125
- fix Golly Theme colour order for HROT multi-state rules
Build 1124
- fix display issue when drawing stars without gridlines with High Quality rendering
- fix Golly Theme colour order for 2 state rules
Build 1123
- minor performance improvement for colour history
Build 1122
- don't AutoFit with zero population
Build 1121
- set bounded grid tiles on Reset since the grid may have grown during playback
- close the Graph if mode changed
- ensure changes to population at the current generation are reflected when the Graph is opened
- ensure AutoFit is respected when window resized
- Identify now displays results of period detection before classification begins
Build 1120
- fixed pattern extent on Save for LtL/HROT patterns
Build 1119
- the LifeViewer home page now supports dragging and dropping pattern files onto the LifeViewer window
Build 1118
- first phase of pinch zoom support for touch devices
Build 1117
- preserve leading whitespace in comments
Build 1116
- fix too many alternates error message
- first part of [[ KILLGLIDERS ]] improvement
Build 1115
- Y coordinate direction (display only) can now be toggled with Settings>Advanced>Y Direction (hotkey F9)
- the default is that the Y coordinate increases down the screen
- this setting is saved for the current browser on the current device
- note: this only changes how the Y coordinate is displayed and script commands that take
cell locations (for example [[ PASTE ]]) always use Y increasing down the screen
Build 1114
- fix scale issue on displays with low resolution and browser zoom
Build 1113
- support scale x and y
Build 1112
- try alternate method of reading CSS scaling
Build 1111
- fix updateMe() only updating the first embedded Viewer
Build 1110
- fix cursor position when CSS scaling used
Build 1109
- prevent keyboard events from propagating when handled
Build 1108
- don't put error links in forum codeboxes that look like they contain Python
Build 1107
- ignore comma after rule name
- fail pattern load if there is whitespace after RLE count
- fail pattern load if there is a leading zero in RLE count
Build 1106
- allow comment lines in RLE pattern body
Build 1105
- performance improvements when loading patterns
Build 1104
- report alternating RuleLoader rules as not supported
Build 1103
- fixed Identify issue with Margolus period 2 oscillators
Build 1102
- fixed some Chrome warnings about getImageData
- improved Snapshot performance
Build 1101
- performance improvements when loading patterns
- embedded viewers with too big [[ WIDTH ]] specified will now attempt to keep aspect ratio rather than flag an error
Build 1100
- improved copy to clipboard compatbility on Safari mobile
- do not prompt when Randomizing the pattern if the only edit was playback from T=0
- fixed CSP issue with getting build number
Build 1099
- improved copy to clipboard compatibility
Build 1098
- fixed Identify with Margolus period 2 oscillators
- fixed Identify with alternating [R]Investigator states
Build 1097
- improved random fill performance at T=0
- fixed Cell Period Map rendering from website
Build 1096
- switched to using internal format for UI Icons
Build 1095
- use Cmd and Option in Help and tooltips on Safari (instead of Control and Alt)
Build 1094
- support Mac Command key for keyboard shortcuts
Build 1093
- fixed nudging selection with HROT/LtL rules in Bounded Grids
Build 1092
- alert if memory is exhausted
- improve LifeViewer home page button handling
Build 1091
- Fixed a Paste issue
Build 1090
- fixed Cell Period Table not always allowing scrolling when required
Build 1089
- improved Help->Info->Gridlines
- PCA, Margolus, Triangular and Hexagonal rules now only support Plane or Torus Bounded Grids
Build 1088
- fixed an issue with history cells for HROT rules
Bujild 1087
- fixed Margolus iterator issue
Build 1086
- improved alignment of Paste overlay
Build 1085
- enable Kill Gliders button for range 1 HROT rules
- treat [R]Investigator kill cells as dead for Identify
- fixed HROT pattern erasing cells leaving history
- fixed PASTE creating history cells when no alive cells died
Build 1084
- further performance improvement to Identify when calculating Strict Volatility
Build 1083
- improved Identify performance when computing Strict Volatility
Build 1082
- added script command [[ LABELALIGN CENTER|LEFT|RIGHT ]] to set the text alignment for subsequent [[ LABEL ]] definitions
- added an alias
Build 1081
- improved multiverse handlingD
Build 1080
- fixed an issue with Advance Selection and growing the grid
Build 1079
- fixed [R]Super state 6 cells not always appearing in Identify Map
Build 1078
- fixed rendering issue when changing zoom levels
Build 1077
- fixed Select All with 2-state RuleLoader patterns
- fixed Select All in Bounded Grid with incorrect pattern size specification
Build 1076
- fixed RuleLoader range from grid boundary when cells are killed
- fixed Mod case for Identify
- fixed population calculation for HROT patterns that get killed at the grid boundary
Build 1075
- added support for some [R]Investigator named rules
- enabled Layers for 2 state RuleTree/RuleTable rules
- fixed an issue with Identify, Bounded Grids and [R]Investigator
Build 1074
- fixed [[ KILLGLIDERS ]] for range 1 HROT rules
Build 1073
- fixed Paste resetting history
Build 1072
- fixed alive count with [R]Investigator patterns on bounded grids
- fixed some error validation messages for [[ COLOR ]]
- fixed speed slider position on Reset
- allow Niemiec states to be translated into [R]Super states
- fixed [R]Investigator range from grid boundary when cells are killed
- fixed which [R]Investigator states get killed when they hit the grid boundary
- fixed showing some Identify results when script errors are shown
Build 1071
- non-deterministic HROT rules can now randomize a parameter value by specifying # for the value
- e.g. R1,C2,S2-3,B3,P100,#,55
- survival% is 100%
- birth% is random
- immunity% is 55%
Build 1070
- fixed crash when certain HROT patterns hit grid boundary
Build 1069
- fixed Identify for [R]Super
Build 1068
- fixed pattern validation for [R]History, [R]Super and [R]Investigator
- fixed Select All position when incorrect pattern size specified
Build 1067
- small performance improvement for [R]Investigator iterator
Build 1066
- fixed [R]Investigator alive state handling
Build 1065
- fixed rectanglur cells offset
Build 1064
- fixed selections
- fixed not cancelling current selection when new one is started via drag
Build 1063
- non-deterministic HROT rules now support an additional parameter
- R1,C1,S23,B3,NM,P[survival%[,birth%,[immunity%]]]
- survival% is the chance that a cell actually survives when the rule specifies it should
- birth% is the chance that a cell is actually born when the rule specifies it should
- immunity% is the chance that a cell survives when the rule specifies it should die
- if only survival% is specified then that value is also used for birth%, and immunity% is set to 0%
- if none are specified then a random value is used for survival% and birth%, and immunity% is set to 0%
- fixed a tiling issue with 1D RuleTable rules
Build 1062
- allow choosing a new drawing state during Change Cell State
- fixed RANDSEED not checking if it has an argument
Build 1061
- non-deterministic HROT rules now support defining the percentage chance of surviving a death, and chance of being born:
- R1,C1,S23,B3,NM,P[survival%[,birth%]]
- if the birth chance is not specified then the survival chance is used for both
- if neither are specified then birth and survival chances are randomized
Build 1060
- added Change Cell State button to Selection menu (hotkey Alt-K)
- prompts to click on a cell and then replaces all cells of that state with the current drawing state
Build 1059
- fixed playback speed from script commands
Build 1058
- fixed invalid Mods for Identify
Build 1057
- PCA and Margolus rules now show the engine generation in Generation Statistics when in Relative mode
- fixed Step Back not triggering AutoFit when enabled
- improved AutoFit for large Zoom values
Build 1056
- improved selection box rendering accuracy
- fixed playback speed slider initial position
Build 1055
- fixed more drawing with [R]Investigator rules
Build 1054
- fixed drawing with [R]Investigator rules
Build 1053
- fixed dead cell state choice during PASTE
Build 1052
- fixed deletion when HROT patterns hit the grid boundary
Build 1051
- minor performance improvement for [R]Investigator
Build 1050
- fixed Fast Lookup calculation happening if pattern was invalid
Build 1049
- fixed deletion when patterns hit the grid boundary
Build 1048
- fixed a sequencing issue with Undo/Step Back and PASTE
Build 1047
- fixed repository load with Investigator postfix
Build 1046
- renamed [R]Extended to [R]Investigator
Build 1045
- fixed dead cell handling in [R]Extended
- fixed handling of pattern dimension -1
Build 1044
- fixed Identify not displaying Life ended message when LOOP defined
- fixed Fast Lookup not being triggered for RuleTable patterns with 5 to 7 states
- fixed Identify with multi-state patterns
- improved Identify performance for [R]History patterns
- fixed Identify and Bounded Grids
- fixed COLOR error for [R]History lower case state names
- fixed state 3 cells for [R]Extended in Identify
- fixed [R]History no-trail states that get killed at the grid boundary
- fixed AutoFit on Bounded Grids with an infinite dimension
- Settings->Advanced->State Number now toggles displaying raw state number
- fixed dead Triangular cells not drawing at grid edge
- fixed HistoryFit for patterns with just pasted cells
- fixed minimum delete radius for HROT and [R]Extended algos
Build 1043
- allow negative time delta for slow salvos
- fixed Bounding Box for Identify [R]History patterns with state 6
Build 1042
- added experimental syntax for slow salvos
- [[ PASTET t PASTE rle x y XT dx1 dt1 dx2 dt2 ... dxn dtn ]]
- [[ PASTET t PASTE rle x y YT dy1 dt1 dy2 dt2 ... dyn dtn ]]
Build 1041
- fixed HROT bounding box calculation
Build 1040
- fixed drawing in [R]Extended
Build 1039
- fixed [R]Extended for hexagonal neighbourhoods
Build 1038
- fixed RuleLoader algo issue
Build 1037
- fixed a crash in Help
Build 1036
- added B0 support to [R]Extended rules
Build 1035
- fix [R]Extended Y axis
Build 1034
- reduce memory usage when reading comments
- added experimental support for [R]Extended rules
- fixed Mod for [R]Super with state 6
- fixed vertical positioning on Hexagonal grids
- fixed [R]History state 6 cells at grid edge
- Fast Lookup now supports RuleTree rules with up to 16 states
- fixed THUMBLAUNCH when used with RANDOMIZE or RANDOMIZE2
- fixed history tile grid not being reset correctly
Build 1033
- made T Min/Max mod the period for Help->Info->Identify
Build 1032
- added the generation at which Identify finds the minimum and maximum Spaceship or Oscillator population and bounding box to Help->Info->Identify
Build 1031
- made hexagons more regular
Build 1030
- fixed Nudge Selection boundary for HROT/LtL rules
Build 1029
- fixed Layer colours for dead cells in Generations rule
- fixed Bounding Box when cells cleared at grid boundary
Build 1028
- New Pattern and Change Rule will now detect rule name from pasted RLE
- allow Snow to fall through cell borders
Build 1027
- fixed Nudge Selection boundary for 2-state rules
Build 1026
- further improvements to illegal state handling
Build 1025
- fixed overlay Bounding Box calculation when not overlay cells exist
Build 1024
- improved COLOR validation
- fixed illegal state error handling
Build 1023
- Fast Lookup now gets created automatically in the background and will be enabled as soon as ready
Build 1022
- Fast Lookup now supports @TABLE hexagonal neighbourhoods
Build 1021
- performance improvements for Fast Lookup
Build 1020
- disable Copy as MAP for B0 rules
- improved Fast Lookup initialization performance
Build 1019
- display last benchmark time in Help->Pattern
- display progress bar during Fast Lookup initialization with Cancel button
Build 1018
- added more information to Help->Info->Pattern about Fast Lookup
Build 1017
- fixed issue when switching Fast Lookup off for RuleTree rules
Build 1016
- added Settings->Advanced->Fast Lookup (hotkey F7) to toggle Fast Lookup for supported RuleLoader rules
Build 1015
- added experimental faster algo for RuleLoader @TREE and @TABLE rules
- currently enabled with [[ FASTLOOKUP ]] script command
- supports Moore neighbourhood rules with 2 to 8 states
- supports von Neumann neighbourhood rules with 2 to 32 states
- note: it can take several seconds to initialize for 5 to 8 state Moore @TABLE rules
Build 1014
- improved COLOR validation error messages
Build 1013
- align Help-Scripts->Colours with current rule
Build 1012
- further improvements to COLOR element validation
Build 1011
- improved COLOR element validation
Build 1010
- fixed AutoFit for empty Hex patterns
- fixed Triangular selections being one cell too wide
- fixed [R]History state colours not being able to be changed with state numbers
- fixed creating a Custom Theme when an invalid state number specified for a colour
- fixed COLOR dead and COLOR DEAD sometimes referring to different states
- fixed not creating a Custom Theme when some [R]History colours changed
- fixed DEAD vs DEADRAMP order for [R]History
Build 1009
- added Strict Volatility support for 2-state RuleTable rules
- fixed incorrect births and deaths count for 2-state VN RuleTree rules
- added Settings->Clipboard->Copy as MAP (hotkey Alt+M) to copy to the clipboard the MAP equivalent of a 2-state RuleLoader rule
- fixed AutoFit not updating after all edits
Build 1008
- fixed HROT rules not rejecting Bounded Grid with shift
- improved Spaceship detection for single cell ships
Build 1007
- fixed an edge case for Klein Bounded Grid definition
- make canonical form of Torus Bounded Grid shift modulo width or height
- limit maximum specified Torus shift to +/- 1000000
Build 1006
- reduce maximum HROT Gaussian range to 50
Build 1005
- fixed PASTE not pasting multi-state cells in left or right tile of the grid
- improved Cell Period Table paging
- removed Bounding Box from Identify results for Hexagonal or Triangular grids
Build 1004
- fixed PASTE not pasting 2-state cells in left or right tile of the grid
- always include both height and width in Bounded Grid canonical format (excluding Sphere)
- Page Up and Page Down buttons on the Cell Period Table now scroll multiple lines at a time
Build 1003
- you can now scroll the Cell Period Table by dragging with the mouse/touch
- increased maximum major grid line interval to 32
- Undo/Redo now triggers AutoFit if enabled
Build 1002
- fixed greyed out colour for Grid button grid lines
Build 1001
- fixed allowing too small Bounded Grids for HROT/LtL rules
- fixed patterns with CXRLE Pos being allowed too close to grid boundary
Build 1000
- fixed a crash on LifeViewer home page when "View" clicked during pattern identification
- fixed making a selection with zero population
- fixed selection box on square grid at Angle 0
- fixed Close Errors button not being hidden when Settings displayed
- AutoFit now reacts to cell drawing when enabled
- fixed Nudge overwriting current paste buffer
Build 999
- fixed Fit Zoom with odd dimension Bounded Grids
- fixed Errors being hidden after toggling Settings on and off
- fixed Hexagonal grid not always drawing top or bottom row of cells
- fixed cell drawing and Undo with cells drawn because of clipping a Bounded Grid
- fixed [R]Super bounded grid cell colour at ZOOM < 1
Build 998
- fixed grow grid trigger for HROT rules
- fixed Undo/Redo records after grid grows
- fixed starting drawing outside a bounded grid
Build 997
- added buttons to scroll the Cell Period Table if it is too long to fit in the window
- fixed Klein Bounded Grid with shift
- fixed vertical alignment of legend boxes on Cell Period Table and Cell Period Map
- disable Tilt when in Draw or Edit mode or when Selection or Paste box is active
Build 996
- fixed COLOUR command allowing invalid state numbers
- fixed RLE decoder when size specified but no rule
Build 995
- fixed Help->Themes for multistate patterns with 255 or 256 states
- fixed AutoFit on STOP
- fixed Triangular grid cell location
- fixed [R]History custom marked states being used with all Themes and not just Custom
- fixed error message if [R]Super used with HROT rule definition
- fixed PCA rules in Bounded Grid with infinite dimension
- fixed incorrect range in rule neighbourhood tooltip
Build 994
- added notification when Cell Borders switched on or off via hotkey
- fixed potential crash when drawing triggering a grid growth
- moved "Info Bar" button from "Settings->Display" to "Settings->Advanced"
- moved "Integer Zoom" button from "Settings->General" to "Settings->Display"
- added "Settings->General->Fit Selection" (hotkey Ctrl+F) to fit the selection to the display
- fixed pattern AutoFit after Identify with Track enabled
- fixed Still Life detection for Margolus rules
- fixed Bounding Box issue if pattern died during Identify analysis
Build 993
- fixed Identify for Margolus rules that have an identical pattern in two consecutive generations
Build 992
- several fixes for Identify Mod for Margolus rules
Build 991
- hide Help->Script->Colours items that are not relevant to the current rule
- fixed Undo not restoring dead states for PCA rules
Build 990
- fixed odd period case for Margolus rules
Build 989
- fixed period 1 case for Margolus rules
Build 988
- added Strict Volatility for Margolus rules
Build 987
- only draw Bounded Grid in the bottom layer
Build 986
- fixed PASTE overwriting dead cells with empty cells
Build 985
- addded Copy Position and Copy View buttons to Settings->Clipboard menu
- fixed "Life ended at" messages not appearing consistently
Build 984
- fixed Layers for RuleTable rules
- all Themes now compute history
Build 983
- fixed Undo/Redo and Reverse Playback buttons
Build 982
- ignore THEME command for rules that don't support Themes
- fixed background colour brightness on multi-state patterns with Layers
- fixed an issue with Thumbnails
Build 981
- fixed pattern border checking for loading, drawing, and PASTE
Build 980
- fixed incorrect error message when local @RULE in pattern RLE is invalid
Build 979
- fixed issue with PASTE on HROT/LtL patterns being ignored for first and last tile in a row
Build 978
- undo now restores [R]History and [R]Standard dead cells
Build 977
- fixed an issue with Zoom and enabling Waypoints
Build 976
- disable Kill Gliders button for unsupported rules
- draw off grid regions for Triangles and Hexagons
Build 975
- fixed Custom theme being locked if only Grid or Grid Major colour changed
Build 974
- map Niemiec states to [R]Super: x -> 15, y -> 17, z -> 19
Build 973
- only exclude multi-state RuleTable rules from Heat and Temperature
- use [R]Super for patterns containing Niemiec states "x", "y", and "z"
Build 972
- fixed KILLGLIDERS deleted state for [R]History patterns
- removed support for Niemiec state 'y' since there is no [R]History state to map to
- hide Heat and Temperature for multi-state patterns
Build 971
- lock Zoom control and disable Pan and Zoom if AutoFit is enabled
- fixed AutoFit with empty patterns
- made a minor adjustment to Cell Period Map colour contrast
Build 970
- reduced safe border for HROT/LtL patterns
- disable KILLGLIDERS for HROT/LtL patterns
- adjusted Cell Period Map period colour contrast
- fixed Triangle Paste overlay
Build 969
- fixed spaceship Mod issue
Build 968
- fixed Mod for two cases
- ignore PASTE for 'none' rule
Build 967
- fixed another KILLGLIDERS edge case
- fixed grid growth not being triggered correctly by HROT large range patterns
- fixed PASTE with 3 states
Build 966
- better align Triangular with Rectangular cells on Triangular grid
Build 965
- fixed COLOR dead not referring to just died colour for 2-state rules
- fixed Identify Rot90 detection
- fixed drawing near the grid boundary causing a crash when pattern run for HROT rules
- fixed an edge case in KILLGLIDERS
Build 964
- fixed another case of Identify allowing Rot90 with a Mod that ins't quarter of the period
- fixed COLOR BACKGROUND not setting the background colour in all rules
- fixed COLOR setting for states 0-2 of the 'none' rule
- disable Save button if invalid pattern loaded
- fixed Shrink Selection and Select All for [R]History rules
- fixed AutoFit for Margolus patterns in Bounded Grids
- fixed AutoFit for patterns on Bounded Grids with an infinite dimension
- fixed Triangular grid horizontal alignment on AutoFit
Build 963
- fixed incorrect cell Y coordinate display
Build 962
- fixed more [R]Super cell states killed at the grid boundary
- fixed "Life ended at" message when CXRLE Gen defined
Build 961
- clip drawing to Bounded Grid
- fixed [R]Super cell state killed at the grid boundary
- fixed Identify allowing Rot90 with a Mod that isn't quarter of the period
- fixed Cross Surface allowing infinite dimension
- moved Bounded cell colour in Help->Info->Identify
Build 960
- ensure Klein shifts are 1 if set
- disable KILLGLIDERS for patterns in Bounded Grids
- fixed Bounded Grid AutoFit for non-Margolus rules
Build 959
- fixed non-canonical Klein bounded grid format on save
- fixed dying state for 2-state patterns when pattern killed at grid boundary
Build 958
- fixed AutoFit stuttering in some cases
Build 957
- added Bounded Grid border to Cell Period Map
- added State 6 period count to Help->Info->Identify
Build 956
- fixed empty hexagonal patterns with Bounded Grids not centering properly
Build 955
- KILLGLIDERS now respects state 4 in [R]History
- remember camera zoom when all cells die in HistoryFit mode
- fixed AutoFit for Hexagonal grids
Build 954
- disable Identify for Bounded Grids with an infinite dimension
- Identify now considers all cells in a Bounded Grid (so only Oscillators or Still Life patterns are recognized)
Build 953
- changed "Saved" to "Pattern Saved"
Build 952
- fixed Klein bottle with twist and shift
- don't pause playback when all cells die if LOOP defined and enabled
- when selection saved display "Selection Saved"
- for cell info use [bounded] for Bounded Grid cells and [boundary] outside
Build 951
- ensure State 6 label fits in Cell Period Map legend
- fixed Rot180 not being detected by Identify
- disable Heat and Temperature for identified patterns in Bounded Grids
- make canonical version of Klein Bounded Grid show both dimensions
Build 950
- fixed PASTE not working at T=0 for HROT/LtL rules
Build 949
- allow Bounded Grid definitions with missing or all infinite dimensions
- check for illegal pattern states in @TABLE rules
- allow comments in @ICONS colour definitions
- scale Cell Period Map legend to text
- remove RuleTable patterns when they hit the grid boundary
- cell info now shows cells outside a pattern in a Bounded Grid as [bounded]
Build 948
- fixed RuleTable B0 error
- fixed population calculation for RuleTable rules in Bounded Grids
- ensure @TABLE and @TREE header values are read as integers
Build 947
- fixed RLE with initial Niemec state not being recognized
- fixed [R]History with Bounded Grids
Build 946
- fixed Identify issue with grid growth when computing occupancy for spaceships
- fixed Clear Outside bounding box issue for [R]History rules
- added support for RuleTable B0 rules in Bounded Grids
- fixed Life ending during Identify analysis
Build 945
- fixed Identify failing
Build 944
- fixed crash when resizing Cell Period Map in PopUp Viewer after reset
Build 943
- added state 6 [R]History and [R]Super cells to Cell Period Map
- remove dimensions from "Pattern too big" message
- only allow even Bounded Grid shifts for Margolus rules
Build 942
- fixed digonal spaceship Mod orentiation
- state 6 [R]History and [R]Super cells are now included in Identify detection
Build 941
- fixed diagonal spaceships diagonal flip
Build 940
- fixed spaceships allowing Rot180
Build 939
- fixed an issue with Clear Selection not fully removing state 6 cells
Build 938
- fixed initial population issue with HROT patterns
Build 937
- add more composite transformations
Build 936
- renamed some more transformations and added FlipDiag
Build 935
- fixed Identify not checking for assymetric state6 cells in [R]History patterns
- renamed some transformation types
- fixed valid transformation types for spaceships
Build 934
- fixed a crash during pattern load
Build 933
- performance improvements to Identify
Build 932
- fixed initial population count for multi-state rules
- performance improvements for HROT/LtL 2-state Identify
Build 931
- improve "Show Pattern Error" detection for forum
Build 930
- handle repository rule files with missing final end of line
Build 929
- further fixes to KILLGLIDERS
Build 928
- added period detection time to Help->Info->Identify
Build 927
- fixed an issue with KILLGLIDERS
Build 926
- further small performance improvement to Identify
Build 925
- small performance improvement to Identify strict volatility calculation
- Identify search time is now shown in Help->Info->Identify
Build 924
- regenerate Cell Period Map image on resize
- fixed some invalid patterns not generating "Show Pattern Error" message on forum
Build 923
- improved KILLGLIDERS when two or more gliders are diagonally aligned in the same direction
- only allow even shifts in bounded grids for Triangular rules
- fixed an issue with HROT Custom Neighbourhoods with Triangular or Hexagonal neighbourhoods
- show Esc button if there are script errors
- update Population Graph if pattern edited at T=0
Build 922
- fixed pattern size check
- enable Density for Margolus Still Life
- fixed issue with HROT multi-state bounding box for Identify
Build 921
- Population Graph vertical axis scale now based on selected data types
Build 920
- fixed population count issue for HROT/LtL patterns with HISTORYSTATES
Build 919
- fixed issue with canonical Klein bounded grid string
Build 918
- fixed population calculation (again) for [R]History state6 cells
- fixed population calculation for [R]Super state6 cells
Build 917
- performance improvement for rotor and stator calculations for 2-state Like-like rules
Build 916
- added an extra digit to Density display
- fixed population calculation for [R]History state6 cells
Build 915
- fixed a potential crash when growing the grid
Build 914
- add State 2 Rotor % to Cell Map Table and Help->Info->Identify
- fixed bounding box for Still Life patterns
- align Gen menu statistics at bottom of display when not all are displayed
- fixed population calculation for Super rules in Hex or von Neumann neighbourhoods with state 6 cells
Build 913
- show Density as a value from 0 to 1
- only show current population for Still Life patterns that start not as a Still Life
Build 912
- add Density to Still Life statistics
Build 911
- fixed an issue with KILLGLIDERS
Build 910
- fixed Strict Volatility for periods > 65535
- increased maximum search generations for Identify
- improved Identify for alternating rules
Build 909
- fixed issue with Identify and [R]History bounding box
- fixed diagonal spaceship Mod
- fixed Mod for alternating rules
- maximum period for Strict Volatility calculations is now based on memory needed
Build 908
- fixed spaceship Mod transformations
- fixed issue with grid growing during spaceship Mod calculation
- fixed bounded box size with state 6 [R]History cells
Build 907
- fixed switched Rot90 labels
Build 906
- fixed missing Mod transformation for [R]Super spaceships
- ensure spaceship Mod calculation takes into account each generation bounding box size
Build 905
- fixed compound Mod transformations
Build 904
- handle Mod detection when multiple transformations are valid
- fixed PCA rotor and stator calculation
Build 903
- remove symmetry for spaceship full period
Build 902
- fixed Oscillator detection issue
Build 901
- add ActiveCells, Temperature and Volatility calculations to Identify for multi-state rules or periods > 65536
Build 900
- fixed crash with odd sized bounded grid
- fixed notification background persisting across Viewers
- fixed starfield colour persisting across Viewers
- fixed [R]History states not being updated correctly when rendering hexagons or triangles
Build 899
- fixed issue with Generations population with 192 states
- removed "Type" display for Identify since the type is in the header
- fixed an issue with [R]History state2 cells not rendering on pattern load if there are PASTE commands
Build 898
- moved Last Identify button to Pattern submenu
Build 897
- new Identify engine
- fixed a typo in Help
- fixed pattern decoder searching beyond the first line for a rule name
- initialize all state colours to white (so there aren't transparent cells if illegal states used in a pattern)
- fixed Triangular and Hexagonal Bounded Grid border colour
Build 896
- fixed issue with computing 2-state Mod
- renamed some Mod symmetries
Build 895
- fixed more issues with computing Mod
Build 894
- fixed an issue computing Mod
Build 893
- fixed an issue with Identify and orthgonal spaceships
Build 892
- improved Identify spaceship detection
Build 891
- fixed HROT/LtL default custom theme
- fixed Generations issue with 192 states
- improved 100% representation in Cell Period Table and Help->Info->Identify
- changed "FlipXorYorRotCWorCCW" to shorter "FlipXorYorRot"
Build 890
- fixed Klein and Cross-Surface Bounded Grids for Triangular rules
- disable Sphere Bounded Grid for Triangular rules
- fixed playback stopping after 1 generation if initial pattern was empty
Build 889
- fixed step being locked to 1 after all cells die
- fixed [R]History state6 cell processing with Bounded Grids
- fixed [R]Super patterns hitting the boundary not always being visually deleted
- fixed Random Fill not correctly overwriting state 6 [R]History cells
Build 888
- fixed an issue with custom colours and RuleTree or [R]Super rules
Build 887
- show cell as [boundary] if outside grid
- display "No live cells" if Go To Gen used with no alive cells
- improve Undo handling at T=0
- fixed Margolus patterns not displaying "Life ended at" if stepping back
Build 886
- fixed Spherical Bounded Grids for PCA rules
- fixed specifying history state colour for [R]History rules
Build 885
- draw the Population Graph below Identify results
- fixed Waypoint AutoFit issue with Margolus rules
- fixed custom PCA colours being persisted
Build 884
- fixed crash when PCA patterns hit grid boundary
- changed "Empty Pattern" message for Select and Identify
Build 883
- show DYINGRAMP for 3-state Generations rules in Help->Themes
- fixed not being able to specify custom PCA N colour
- fixed Icon state numbering in Help->Info->Pattern
Build 882
- increase maximum STARTFROM generation to 4194304
- "Life ended at" message now includes PASTEs
- fixed COLOR dead to point at Dead colour and not Background
Build 881
- don't display "Life ended at" if there are pending PASTEs
- remove unused colour from Help->Themes for 3-state Generations patterns
- added script command [[ NOSNOW ]] to disable secret snow
Build 880
- adjusted Dying colour for Mono and Inverse Themes
- playback will now stop when Life ends (unless there are pending PASTEs)
Build 879
- fixed Alt GridLines button not having correct visual state
- only apply custom colours when Custom Theme active
Build 878
- disable Alt GridLines if GRIDMAJOR is not 2
- Custom Themes are now based on the default Theme for the rule type
Build 877
- don't show Waypoint toggle message from UI control
- re-enable STOP
- improve error message when illegal PCA state name specified for COLOR
- fixed a crash when Waypoints enabled at first Waypoint
- fixed an issue where Generations was fading at double speed
- added Mod FlipXorYorRot90or270
Build 876
- hide Cell Period Map and Cell Period Table if Help or Settings open
- fixed bounding box issue with Strict Volatility
Build 875
- ensure PCA rules continue to process history when all alive cells die
- don't persist PCA state colour
- fixed setting state colour with a number or state name not creating a Custom Theme
- fixed issue with Help displaying colour boxes or icons incorrectly when UIBACKGROUND and HELP colours are the same
- fixed "Life ended at" message after Undo
- fixed Mod calculation for HROT Generations patterns
Build 874
- fixed "Life ended at" message when Step Back causes cells to become alive after all dead
- show @ICONS definitions in Help->Info->Pattern
- moved Help->Info->Stars above Help->Info->Randomize
- Help->Info->Themes now correctly shows GRIDMAJOR as 2 for Margolus Themes that have a non-zero GRIDMAJOR
Build 873
- fixed "Life ended at" message for Generations patterns
- don't display GRIDMAJOR colour in Help->Themes if GRIDMAJOR is 0
- updated Help->Info->Engine
Build 872
- only "New Pattern" when there are no cells in the pattern
- updated MCell Theme
- fixed Generations patterns being deleted at the grid border
Build 871
- ensure "none" rules report neighbourhood as "none"
Build 870
- fixed random cell generation for PCA rules
Build 869
- fixed Generations patterns hitting grid extent
- fixed Identify when patterns die
- fixed StartFrom when patterns die
Build 868
- change how DYING is reported for 3-state Generations patterns
Build 867
- fixed reverse playback for PCA alternating patterns
- fixed DYINGRAMP for a few Themes
Build 866
- enable Strict Volatility for [R]Super rules
Build 865
- re-enabled Mod for Spaceships
- fixed Identify for [R]Super spaceships
Build 864
- fixed issue with Dying colours not being defined correctly
- when constrasting colours are automatically generated for Themes ensure they are visually different
- always display grid line settings in Help->Themes
Build 863
- ensure PASTE is processed even when all cells die that generation
- don't show "Life ended at" if there were no alive states originally in the pattern
Build 862
- fixed an Identify issue with PCA rules and Rot180
Build 861
- fixed Go To Gen not displaying generations when a Theme with no history is selected
- fixed clearing patterns hitting the boundary population calculation
- fixed Identify showing symmetry for Mod when it is the same as the Period
Build 860
- fixed an issue calculating Mod for Identify
Build 859
- fixed [R]Super population statistics with state 6 cells
- fixed [R]Super not displaying "Life ended at" message when all cells die
Build 858
- fixed VIEWONLY and Error label width when THUMBNAIL used
Build 857
- fixed issue with metrics being forgotten when toggling Stats
- handle final generation for Generations rules when all cells die during Identify
Build 856
- improved error message for alternating rules with nested alternating aliases
Build 855
- fixed Select All for multi-state patterns in Bounded Grids
- fixed Reset and Step Back to T=0 clearing [R]History state 2 cells
- Identify with alternating or Margolus rules no longer shows period 2 cells as part of the Rotor
Build 854
- fixed an issue with Select All and multi-state patterns
Build 853
- fixed Major GridLines button then interval 0 used
Build 852
- fixed a cosmetic issue with Step Back
Build 851
- fixed Rainbow rendering after Step Back to T=0
Build 850
- fixed PCA rules not calculating deaths correctly
Build 849
- fixed Custom Theme being greyed out when only GRIDMAJOR customised
Build 848
- fixed Density calculation for PCA rules in Bounded Grids
Build 847
- hide population data selection buttons for all Bounded Grid types
Build 846
- improve handling of Waypoint messages at T=0
Build 845
- editing cells in Rainbow mode was drawing the new cells in a single colour in Bounded Grids
- Tilt hotkeys now skip dead zone
Build 844
- fixed Fast Identify not being disabled for relevant rules
- fixed Identify and Fast Identify being disabled if a non-deterministic and then deterministic pattern is loaded
Build 843
- fixed rainbow mode being allowed for unsupported rules
- fixed reset when rainbow switched on/off
Build 842
- added PCA Themes
- made Help->Themes specific to the rule
- fixed small rounding issue when creating cell colours
Build 841
- re-enable Themes Help topic for Margolus rules
Build 840
- fixed Niemec cells in [R]Super patterns
- fixed bounding box issue with [R]Super patterns
Build 839
- stop scaling Population Graph when maximum samples reached
- show a message on the Population Graph if no data selected to display
- don't allow the Population Graph with the 'none' rule
- hide Themes Help topic if not relevant to current rule
- fixed error message for PCA rules with History postfix
- added a shadow to the colour boxes displayed in Help
Build 838
- fixed Margolus/PCA rules T counter not changing after pattern died
- fixed playback delay after an undo which causes history calculation
Build 837
- fixed regression with Identify calculating Mod for PCA patterns
Build 836
- hide statistics during pattern load
Build 835
- made remaining shadow colours use the UI background colour
- fixed the T button looking selected during pattern load
Build 834
- made more shadow colours use the UI background colour
Build 833
- fixed an issue with Icon shadow colour when UI background colour is white
Build 832
- frame rate warning now uses the Error colour
- re-ordered some Help->Info->Identify entries
Build 831
- use UI background colour for dimming when Help or Settings menu displayed
- better error message if [[ TITLE ]] argument is not a quoted string
Build 830
- added Population Graph data selection to Help->Info->Graph
- fixed issue with VIEWONLY label appearing in the wrong place
- add hotkey Ins to show Help sections within a topic
- further performance improvement for Identify with 2-state patterns
- fixed an issue with newlines in waypoint messages
Build 829
- further improved categorization of some Help->Info items
Build 828
- improved categorization of some Help->Info->Theme and Help->Info->UI items
Build 827
- improved Identify performance for 2-state patterns
Build 826
- disable Identify for non-deterministic rules
- improve Cell Period Map fit
Build 825
- added data toggles to Population Graph
- hotkey Shift F3 to toggle population
- hotkey Shift F4 to toggle births
- hotkey Shift F5 to toggle deaths
Build 824
- fixed an issue with computing strict volatility with patterns with many cells
Build 823
- fixed an issue with HROT rules and bounded grids
Build 822
- added Cell Period Map background and grid colours to Help->Info->Identify
- fixed Identify Mod for Generations rules again
Build 821
- fixed Identify Mod for Generations rules
- added period legend colour information to Help->Info->Identify
Build 820
- fixed snapshot issue every 64 generations
Build 819
- fixed stars not drawing outside actual grid extent during Theme change involving background colour change
Build 818
- fixed an issue with two line notifications
- improved the progress bar for Go To Generation
- if Rainbow mode specified in script commands then make it the default on hard reset
Build 817
- added Settings->General->Last Identify to display last Identify results (hotkey Shift F6)
Build 816
- improve contrast for some Cell Period Map values
- prevent hotkeys from switching to Cell Period Map or Cell Period Table when strict volatility not calculated
Build 815
- changed Cell Period Map style
Build 814
- improved position and style of Cell Period Table
- improved style of Cell Period Map legend
- fixed pattern information for too big patterns
Build 813
- added cell period table to Identify output for ocillators with strict volatility
Build 812
- use a smaller cell size for large cell period maps
Build 811
- use larger zoom for scales < 1 for cell map display
Build 810
- improved cell and border rendering for cell map display
Build 809
- improved cell period map display
- hotkey Shift-D to download cell period map
- fixed crash with Identify and 2-state RuleTable rules
Build 808
- can now draw cell period maps that are less than 1 cell per pixel
- performance improvements when computing strict volatility
Build 807
- hotkey Shift-F6 will now display any previous Identify result
- hide Identify controls when Settings menu open
Build 806
- fixed cell period map legend for strict volatility 1
- fixed cell period map legend text positioning
- fixed cell period map for alternating rules (including B0)
- fixed loading triangular rules
Build 805
- added legend to cell period map
Build 804
- added cell period map display option in Identify results for Oscillators
- hotkey D to toggle
Build 803
- fixed most of the selection issues
Build 802
- fixed an issue where too big patterns where crashing the Viewer
Build 801
- if strict volatility not available show it as N/A in results
- don't use fixed point for integer values in Identify results
- fixed custom Themes
- fixed CXRLE Pos with bounded grids
Build 800
- fixed annotation coordinates in bounded grids
- fixed Arrow and Polygon view distance fading
Build 799
- fixed drawing multi-line Labels without shadows
Build 798
- added [[ POLYSHADOW (OFF) ]], [[ LABELSHADOW (OFF) ]] and [[ ARROWSHADOW (OFF) ]]
- enable/disable shadows for subsequent annotation definitions
- fixed issue with KILLGLIDERS executing during reset
- fixed GRID AND GRIDMAJOR colours being ignored when THEME specified
- fixed incorrect pattern size when repository rule downloaded
Build 797
- fixed Bounded Grid cell placement
Build 796
- added cell counts for identified oscillators to Help->Info->Identify
- reduced memory usage for computing strict volatility
- increase maximum allowed period for strict volatility calculation to 65535
Build 795
- make Strict Volatility use fixed-point notation
- fixed issue with Help not closing properly when Identify launched
Build 794
- Identify will now compute Strict Volatility for oscillators in 2-state patterns (excluding RuleTable and Margolus rules)
Build 793
- fixed issue with initial display after RAINBOW disabled and pattern reset
Build 792
- clear animated notification when touch released outside Viewer
- faster animated notification
Build 791
- fixed issue with Rainbow mode and Themes without history
- added "#S" to strings as a substitution for random seed
- all HROT neighbourhoods now support non-deterministic births and survivals by adding ",P" (for probabilistic) to the end of the rule
Build 790
- fixed an issue with step back
Build 789
- fixed issue with RuleTable and "none" rules ignoring [[ COLOR BACKGROUND ]]
Build 788
- added non-deterministic rules specified with LtL/HROT NR neighbourhood
- the neighbourhood is Moore but each birth and survival is based on probability
- the probabilities are randomly generated and can be made repeatable by specifying a [[ RANDSEED ]]
Build 787
- fixed an issue with rule name validation
- don't show cell display workaround for chromium builds >= 107
Build 786
-hide priority notifications when Settings or Help are opened
- made "Life ended at..." notification consistent
Build 785
- colour animated notifications now use UI Foreground and UI Select colours
Build 784
- hotkeys in tooltips now use the Help colour
- Help menu now uses the UI locked colour for disabled items
Build 783
- added [[ COLOR HELP ]] to define a custom help text colour
Build 782
- VIEWONLY label now uses the UI foreground colour
Build 781
- add shadow to greyed out icons
Build 780
- fixed the wrong grid icon being used for square neighbourhood
- UI controls with icons now have a shadow
Build 779
- fixed issue with KILLGLIDERS
Build 778
- fixed problem with reset after Rainbow mode switched on
- restructured some Settings menu options with new General category
- added Settings->General->Save View and Settings->General->Restore View to save and restore the camera
Build 777
- allow T menu in VIEWONLY mode
Build 776
- extend cell display workaround warning to Brave browser
Build 775
- fixed initial population for HROT Generations rules
Build 774
- fixed setting custom colours for Generations and HROT rules
Build 773
- workaround warning message can be permanently disabled by clicking "OK" next to the Help message about it
Build 772
- make warning message specific to Chrome on Windows
Build 771
- fixed an issue with [[ PASTEMODE ]] interfering with UI paste
Build 770
- improve Wolfram validation message
- give warning message if on a version of Chrome that needs a workaround to display cells
Build 769
- ensure major grid lines start at cell 0, 0 (for unbounded grids)
- grey out Snap Angle if grid type doesn't support rotation
Build 768
- revert Chrome 103 cell display fix due to slowdown in Chrome 106
Build 767
- improved repository error reporting
Build 766
- improved performance when fitting long labels to UI controls
- fixed an issue with detecting duplicate alternates for LtL/HROT rules
- untoggle Kill Gliders UI control when locked
Build 765
- fixed issue with HROT rule validation
Build 764
- spherical bounded grid now supports flipping the axis
- adding a '*' after the definition flips the axis (e.g. :S30*)
Build 763
- fixed an issue validation alternating rules
Build 762
- added B0 emulation to HROT 2-state rules
Build 761
- disable dragging when UI disabled
Build 760
- added two new range-1 triangular neighbourhoods:
- Triangular Biohazard (postfix LB)
- Triangular Radiation (postfix LR)
Build 759
- ignore pattern specified width and height for bounded grid cell positions
Build 758
- more accurate cell location when using hexagons
- report different custom or weighted neighbourhoods as an error for alternating rules
Build 757
- more accurate cell location when using rectangles on triangular grid
- hide notifications when Help or Settings opened
- add rectangular grid icon
Build 756
- fix issue reading hex colour specification for some elements
Build 755
- new script command [[ RANDCELLS W H ]] defines a box of random cells
- must be used after [[ RLE ]] or [[ PASTE ]] commands
- W and H specify the width and heigh of the box (from 1 to 4096)
Build 754
- [[ COLOR ]] command now accepts hexadecimal colour specification (must be # followed by six hex digits)
Build 753
- rule label tooltip now includes neighbourhood
- [[ TITLE ]] and waypoint text now support #D for neighbourhood name
Build 752
- added new UI controls in Settings->Advanced:
- Stop All: stops all running LifeViewers (hotkey Shift Z)
- Stop Others: stops other running LifeViewers (hotkey Z)
- Reset All: resets all LifeViewers (hotkey Shift R)
- Snap Angle: snaps camera angle to nearest 45 degrees (hotkey Alt /)
- hotkey Alt < rotates the camera left 45 degrees
- hokey Alt > rotates the camera right 45 degrees
Build 751
- improved cell selection accuracy on hex grid
Build 750
- fix Hexagonal empty pattern zoom and camera position
Build 749
- fix deaths and population when [R]Super cells killed by state 6
Build 748
- disable [R]History with Hex Tripod or triangular neighbourhoods
Build 747
- report [R]Super does not support Hex Tripod
- fix [R]Super hexagon display
- report rules with multiple neighbourhoods defined
- fix [R]History state 6 for hexagonal and von Neumann neighbourhoods
- fix [R]Super hex state 6 issue
Build 746
- fixed an issue with grid growing during PASTE
Build 745
- added script command [[ RANDOMIZE2 ]] to create a random 2-state pattern
Build 744
- remove Mod information from Identify for Margolus and alternating rules
Build 743
- improve handling when rule fails to load
- added dead zone to Tilt slider
Build 742
- process script commands when rule fails to load
Build 741
- hide cell info and selection boxes during initialization
- extended Tilt so range is now -5 to +5
- added hotkey @ to reset Tilt to 0
Build 740
- fixed an issue with Go To Gen in benchmark mode not growing the grid
Build 739
- fixed blank PCA patterns not showing "New Pattern" message
- fixed issue with redo
Build 738
- fixed Triangular rules with Torus bounded grid
Build 737
Grid UI control now changes grid background when Themes change
- fixed PCA paste not working
- fixed invert selection for [R]Super rules
Build 736
- fixed PCA paste in OR mode
- fixed undo/redo with PCA double buffering
Build 735
- grid UI control now uses grid colour for background grid
Build 734
- fixed "none" rule custom colours not displaying in Help
- fixed Identify sometimes failing with alternating HROT rules
Build 733
- fixed died generation for HROT patterns hitting boundary
Build 732
- added [[ COLOR SELECTED R G B|name ]] to define the colour of selected cells during paste
Build 731
- clear history states when switching to Rainbow mode
- fix selections with #CXRLE Pos
Build 730
- don't show Bounded colour when bounded grid not defined
Build 729
- add UI colours to Help->Info->UI
Build 728
- added Settings->Advanced->Clear Drawing to clear all cells in the current drawing state
Build 727
- mark UI controls that are toggles with +/- in top right corner
Build 726
- added Settings->Clipboard->Copy All to copy the selection with comments
- added Settings->Clipboard->Paste To Seln to paste the clipboard into the current selection
Build 725
- created new Clipboard category in settings menu:
- Open Clipboard: opens the clipboard as a pattern
- Copy Original: copy the last loaded pattern to the clipboard
- Copy Rule: copy the rule definition to the clipboard
- Copy Nhood: copy a CoordCA neighbourhood definition to the clipboard
Build 724
- added two missing UI controls
- Settings->Display->Integer Zoom (hotkey Shift 1) sets the Zoom to the nearest integer
- Settings->Display->Center Pattern (hotkey Ctrl M) centers the pattern on the Viewer without changing the Zoom
- centered UI controls in Settings->Playback
Build 723
- temporary fix for [R]Super static tile issue
Build 722
- fix "Life ended at" message with [R]Super patterns
- don't allow Generations and [R]Super to be defined together
Build 721
- experimental fix for blank canvas issue
Build 720
- improved [R]Super performance for some patterns
Build 719
- fixed issue with converting patterns to [R]History that are already [R]History
Build 718
- fix issue with undo/redo and cell states >= 128
- fixed allocation issue with HROT von Neumnann neighbourhoods
Build 717
- improve PASTE performance with blank cells
Build 716
- don't change camera if all cells die during Identify
Build 715
- implement [R]Super sub-pixel renderer
Build 714
- fixed issue with Advance Selection when all cells die in selection
Build 713
- [[ STOP ]] will now always define initial stop generation unless specified at a [[ POI ]]
- fixed Waypoint target when playback throttled
Build 712
- fix died generation
Build 711
- enforce WIDTH and HEIGHT limits
Build 710
- fix Population Graph screenshot height
Build 709
- Settings->Pattern->Save Image and Save Graph will now download the image in the browser
Build 708
- added benchmark mode for Go To Gen
- enter generation with B (e.g. 1000B)
Build 707
- performance improvement when rendering 2-state patterns using Themes with no history
Build 706
- disable Identify, Fast Identify, Go to Gen and [[ STARTFROM ]] for [[ VIEWONLY ]] patterns
- don't assume Generations rule for multi-state patterns if pattern failed to decode
Build 705
- grey out rather than hide Settings Menu button when window too short
- disable Major Gridlines button when [[ GRIDMAJOR 0 ]] set
Build 704
- don't use alias names for rules when saving RLE
Build 703
- maximum grid boundary is now always drawn
Build 702
- fixed an issue with copying Themes
Build 701
- fixed an issue with stop generation and Themes with no history
Build 700
- allow extra parameters in meta setting
Build 699
- the optional rule name postfix specified with the tag now allows postfixes beginning with "?"
-
Build 698
- fix [R]History rendering glitch after ZOOM < 16x
- only show grid borders when both height and width at maximum
Build 697
- new LtL/HROT neighbourhood 'ND' for aligned checkerboard
Build 696
- new LtL/HROT neighbourhood 'NF' for far corner/far edges rules
- rule R parameter sets the default range for Corners and Edges
- override R by specifying C and/or E
- example: FarCorners rule would be: R2,C2,S2-3,B3,NFE1 (i.e. corners 2, edges 1)
- new script command [[ PLAYTIME ]] will show duration of last playback
Build 695
- further performance improvement to HROT Triangular rules
Build 694
- fixed a potential crash for unbounded LtL/HROT von Neumann neighbourhoods
- improved performance for HROT Checkerboard rules
Build 693
- added "Text" and "Error" colours to Help->Info->Theme when not customized
- improved performance for HROT Triangular rules
Build 692
- when a pattern fails to decode add a "Show Pattern Error" link which pops up the error details when clicked
Build 691
- show in which directions there are more states on the state UI slider in Draw mode
- fixed edit actions for 2-state RuleTable/RuleTree rules on odd generations
Build 690
- added a small dead zone in the speed slider to make it easier to select 1x speed
- you can also set 1x by clicking the button to the left of the slider
- fixed CellBorders UI control not being set when CELLBORDERS script command specified
- added Hex RGB values to Help
Build 689
- you can now zoom out to -32x
- hotkey Shift+3 now sets zoom to -32x
Build 688
- fix Tilt issue during frame rate measurement
- prevent script commands from altering camera controls not supported by the current rule
- align "Empty Pattern" messages
- step forward after step back was being ignored for the first step
- sort outer-totalistic Triangular aliases alphabetically
Build 687
- only show Age states in Help for rules that have them
- restore Hex grid support for LtL rules
- fixed issue with Triangular rules and grid alignment
Build 686
- fixed Alive cell count for "none" rules
Build 685
- fixed issue with UI controls being hidden after error report
Build 684
- restore Hex grid support for HROT rules
Build 683
- ensure frame rate is no lower than 60Hz
Build 682
- add extra frame time measurement information to Help->Info->Display
Build 681
- prevent flickering during frame rate measurement
Build 680
- don't jump to Script Help Topic if Help requested when script errors displayed
Build 679
- don't override GPS definition when STEP is 1x
Build 678
- fix incorrect speed setting in initial UI control
Build 677
- handle different refresh rates
- measured frame rate is shown in Help->Info->Display
Build 676
- added Cancel Selection button to Select mode
- added Rand Pattern button to Settings->Pattern menu which randomizes the pattern but keeps the current rule
Build 675
- fix issue for Safari 12 on iOS
Build 674
- various fixes for Edit operations with [R]History state 6 cells
Build 673
- fixed Select All for [R]Super patterns
Build 672
- fixed a crash when multi-state LtL/HROT patterns hit the grid boundary
- disable selection for none rules
- added Shrink Selection button to Edit mode (hotkey Shift+A)
- fixed crash with grid growth
- when playback STEP size can not be reached show actual STEP attained in playback speed UI control
Build 671
- fixes to Waypoint playback speed
Build 670
- fixed Bounded cell colour in Help
- fixed state names in Help when patterns have more states than the rule
Build 669
- fixed step size rounding
Build 668
- combine generations per step and steps per second controls and add 1x Speed button
- allow blank RLE to mean empty pattern
- fix menu colours when invalid pattern loaded
- LifeViewer window is 40px wider
Build 667
- Select All for Generations now ignores history states
- 2-state Random Fill (selection and paste) now use the current drawing state
Build 666
- don't show Heat for Margolus or alternating rules (including B0)
- fix state names for none rule
- fix neighborhood info for none rule
- increased the width of the current cell display
- disable Layers and Depth for none rule
Build 665
- fixed LOOP
Build 664
- fix elapsed time not being calculated for T >= 16384 with Identify
- fix Annotation positions
- [R]Super patterns were not loading
Build 663
- don't expand THUMBNAILs on Touch devices unless touch is released over Viewer
- ignore extra states for 2-state patterns when computing number of alive cells at pattern load
- disable [[ KILLGLIDERS ]] for non-2-state patterns
- fixed [[ STARTFROM ]] when multi-state patterns die
- don't create undo record if no selection is made
- add AGESTATES to Theme Help
- fixed an infinite loop when invalid [[ COLOR ]] element specified
- improve invalid Theme error message
- default grid size is now 512x256 (used to be 512x512)
- grid can now grow independently in X and Y direction
- fixed elapsed time not being calculated for T >= 16384 with [[ STARTFROM ]]
- enforce even bounded grid width and height for triangular LtL/HROT rules
- Select All was including bounding box for 2-state HROT/LtL patterns
- Cells outside a bounded grid are shown as "[Boundary]"
- when patterns are killed by hitting the grid boundary update the population and death statistics
- hotkey "m" will display Memory topic when in Help topics menu
- rectangular cells for triangular patterns were not being used for paste overlay
- fixed clear [R]History/[R]Super tooltips
- [[ STARTFROM ]] now stops if all cells die
- fixed rotate selection for hex rules
- fix janking during normal playback
Build 662
- ignore history states for Select All on PCA rules
Build 661
- Select All with an empty pattern now cancels any selection
- stop Identify iterating first generation with an empty pattern
- Identify now displays generation that pattern died
Build 660
- allocate TILT buffer on first use
Build 659
- annotation position now works with camera tilt
Build 658
- added experimental support to tilt the camera for square grids
- script command [[ TILT <0.0..5.0> ]] defines tilt amount (can be used in POIs and Waypoints)
- hotkeys ' and / to increase and decrease tilt
- new range control in Settings menu to set tilt amount
- hotkey ? now toggles cell shape (for hex and triangular grids)
Build 657
- added hotkeys Ctrl-[ and Ctrl-] to tilt image
Build 656
- experimental mode7 support
- hotkey ; to toggle tilt mode on/off
Build 655
- fix LifeSuper patterns with only dead cells stopping generating
Build 654
- revert create canvas for now
Build 653
- change canvas mode to reduce potential flickering
Build 652
- extend TRACK range to +/- 8
- create canvas if it doesn't exist
- disable STARTFROM notifications if NOREPORT is enabled
Build 651
- don't reset playback direction on soft reset
Build 650
- fixed an issue when all cells died during Identify
Build 649
- Labels support variable substitution with #I for relative generation and #J for relative reversible generation
- fixed an issue with Margolus rules incrementing generation count when Stats display enabled
Build 648
- Labels support variable substitution with #H for reversible generation (for PCA and Margolus rules)
Build 647
- fixed an issue with edited state 6 [R]History cells not working after Reset
Build 646
- make 2-state HROT selection box consistent with Life-like equivalent
Build 645
- fixed an issue with inline Viewer window resizing incorrectly when loading rules from repository
Build 644
- fixed thumbnail mode on touch devices
Build 643
- fixed alive ramp on Step Back to generation 0
- fixed "Life ended at..." message not displaying if pattern died and then during playback new cells are added which all die
Build 642
- add #P for population to Label variable substitutions
Build 641
- Labels support variable substitution with #G for current generation
Build 640
- fix bounded grids with RuleTree rules
Build 639
- Annotation zoom range visibility is now defined in separate script commands:
- [[ LABELZOOMRANGE MINZOOM MAXZOOM|OFF ]]
- [[ ARROWZOOMRANGE MINZOOM MAXZOOM|OFF ]]
- [[ POLYZOOMRANGE MINZOOM MAXZOOM|OFF ]]
- the "OFF" keyword defaults to a visible zoom range of the Annotation ZOOM/4 to Annotation ZOOM*4
- these commands specfiy the visible zoom range for subsequent Annotation definitions
- new Annotation script commands to specify Annotation visibility based on distance in cells from viewpoint center:
- [[ LABELVIEWDIST D|OFF]]
- [[ ARROWVIEWDIST D|OFF]]
- [[ POLYVIEWDIST D|OFF]]
- the "OFF" keyword means no distance limit
- these commands specify the visible distance from the viewpoint center for subsequent Annotation definitions
- Annotation visibility target script commands have been deprecated:
- [[ LABELTARGET X Y D ]]
- [[ ARROWTARGET X Y D ]]
- [[ POLYTARGET X Y D ]
Build 638
- fixed visual issue after deleting cells for RuleTable rules
Build 637
- [[ LABEL X Y ZOOM MINZOOM MAXZOOM ]] was ignoring ZOOM parameter
Build 636
- URLE move to 6bit format for 2-state patterns
- convert "Conway's Life" alias to "Life" to prevent compatibility issues with other tools
Build 635
- performance improvements to experimental URLE decoder
Build 634
- alternative experimental URLE decoder
Build 633
- fixed [[ KILLGLIDERS ]]
Build 632
- alternative experimental URLE encoder
Build 631
- fixed popup Viewer scaling issue when loading rules from Repository
Build 630
- experimental new URLE encoder can now compress non-sequential duplicate rows
Build 629
- experimental new URLE encoder has improved blank cell optimization
Build 628
- experimental new URLE encoder now has a state by state mode which gives better compression for most multi-state patterns
Build 627
- changed default B3/S23 alias to "Life"
- Select All and Save now work with Generations dying states
- experimental new URLE encoder detects used states in pattern for better compression
Build 626
- experimental new URLE encoder now supports up to 256 states
Build 625
- experimental new URLE encoder now uses two methods for [R]History rules
Build 624
- experimental new URLE encoder now supports up to 16 states
Build 623
- fixed Identify so [R]Super rules are as fast as 2-state rules for detection
Build 622
- improved compression of experimental URLE encoder (hotkey Ctrl-E will display statistics)
Build 621
- fix Identify statistics for oscillators that take some generations to form
Build 620
- bounding box was sometimes not being correctly sized when dead cells drawn
- experimental new URLE encoder (hotkey Ctrl-E) [no decoder]
Build 619
- fix error reporting after failed Repository lookup
Build 618
- don't create links for patterns that are too big
Build 617
- new [[ STARTFROM ]] script command to fast-forward to the specified generation on pattern load
- Settings->Playback->Go To Gen or hotkey Shift+N to navigate to the specified generation
- a relative generation can be specified by prefixing the generation number with + or -
- new Cancel button (hotkey Esc) to stop Identify or Go To Gen
Build 616
- Step Back and Undo should now work with [R]History states
Build 615
- experimental performance improvement for RuleTree von Neumann neighbourhood rules
Build 614
- better handling during repository rule load
- add missing [[ QUALITY ]] command description to Help
Build 613
- experimental performance improvement for RuleTree Moore neighbourhood rules
- Help toggle was not clearing if Help closed with Backspace
Build 612
- state names can now be used with the [[ COLOR ]] script command (part 1)
- re-enable Ctrl-C to copy Help
- fixed an issue with the Population Graph at sample limit
- increased maximum number of Population Graph samples to 524288
Build 611
- add keyboard shortcuts to tooltips for POI buttons and Universe buttons
- adjust states slider when picking states
- small performance improvement for von Neumann LtL/HROT rules
- state names are now displayed
- added support for @NAMES section in RuleTable/RuleTree rules
Build 610
- new menu button Settings->Pattern->Save Image will save an image of the current pattern in a new browser window
- new menu button Settings->Pattern->Save Graph will save an image of the current population graph in a new browser window
- remove canvas focus on touch devices
- if GRIDMAJOR is specified but is the same as the current Theme then don't create a CUSTOM Them
Build 609
- attempt to fix slowdown on mobile with blue border after Copy
Build 608
- hotkey Shift+B now toggles the clipboard library in Edit mode
- added hotkeys to clipboard library tooltips
- mouse cursor no longer changes when moving over greyed-out controls
Build 607
- fixed [R]History colours
Build 606
- Identify now detects Mod transformations where the pattern is identical when rotated either CCW or CW as "RotCWorCCW"
- remove legacy colour management
Build 605
- Help topics can now be selected with hotkeys
- hotkey "Backspace" will close a Help topic
Build 604
- fix click or tap occasionally being ignored
Build 603
- fix CUSTOM Theme button not responding correctly
Build 602
- Identify now detects Mod transformations where the pattern is identical when flipped in either the X or Y direction as "FlipXorY"
Build 601
- fix Mod calculation for Identify
Build 600
- "Hexagons"/"Triangles" button is now "Use Rectangles"
- fixed "Einstein" alias
- added hotkey "Backspace" to Settings menu "Close" and "Back" buttons
- fixed Hexagonal grid camera positions
- fixed "Life ended at" message when KILLGLIDERS kills all live cells
- fixed population metrics for KILLGLIDERS
Build 599
- add Fast Identify button to Settings->Pattern
- fix issue with Fast Identify mode persisting
Build 598
- fix crash with Identify if grid grows
Build 597
- fix missing highlight on range controls on touch devices
Build 596
- use case-insensitive match when loading rules from repository
Build 595
- tooltips now use a different colour for hotkeys
- hotkey Ctrl-P to toggle pause playback while drawing
- hotkey Alt-U to toggle autohide UI during playback
- hotkey Ctrl-D to toggle states display
Build 594
- fix snapshot missing last frame of history states
- hide selection size information when Help displayed
- added keyboard shortcuts to tooltips
Build 593
- improved graph rendering for smoother scaling
Build 592
- double digit Weighted neighborhoods were not displaying correctly in Help->Info->Pattern
Build 591
- fix issue with HROT Weighted neighborhoods with negative counts
Build 590
- fix rendering issue for [R]History rules
Build 589
- fix rendering issue that caused an extra initial row and column of cells to be drawn at edge of grid
- fix when turning waypoints back on tracking the camera to the right location
Build 588
- fix issues with editing [R]History patterns
Build 587
- ~15% performance improvement for LifeSuper algo (Moore)
Build 586
- fixed population count for [R]History rules with state 6 cells
Build 585
- display Weighted or Custom neighbourhood grid in Help->Info->Pattern
- fix issue with vertical UI slider
Build 584
- [[ LABEL ]] and [[ ARROW ]] now support three ways of defining the zoom and zoom range:
1. [[ LABEL X Y Z "text" ]] : zoom is Z, min zoom is Z/4 and max zoom is Z*4
2. [[ LABEL X Y Z MAXZ "text" ]] : zoom is Z, min zoom is also Z, and max zoom is MAXZ
3. [[ LABEL X Y Z MINZ MAXZ "text" ]] : zoom is Z, min zoom is MINZ, and max zoom is MAXZ
Build 583
- add missing space for T in Copy Position to clipboard
Build 582
- improved [[ KILLGLIDERS ]]
Build 581
- fix blank grid display when [R]Super pattern dies
Build 580
- cells on a Triangular grid can now be drawn as Triangles (the default) or Rectangles (faster)
- toggle with hotkey / or Settings->Display->Triangles
- override the default with script command [[ SQUARECELLS ]]
Build 579
- new script command [[ POIADDLABELS ]] will automatically create a POI from each Label definition
- new script command [[ AGESTATES <0..63> ]] defines the number of age states to display for a live cell when using Theme
Build 578
- hotkey Ctrl+J to copy rule definition to clipboard
- fix [[ KILLGLIDERS ]] deleting gliders one step too early in some cases
Build 577
- Settings->Pattern->Copy Rule will now copy the rule definition to the clipboard
- note the rule definition will have blank lines removed
Build 576
- "B3/S23History" rule name is copied as "LifeHistory"
Build 575
- you can now fix the size of a Label so it doesn't scale with zoom [[ LABELSIZE (FIXED) ]]
Build 574
- prevent clicks between States slider and Smart Drawing button from drawing on the background
Build 573
- fix UI slider range on scaled Viewers
Build 572
- hotkey Alt+G switches [R]Standard or [R]History to [R]Super
- hotkey Alt+H swtiches [R]Standard or [R]Super to [R]History
- hotkey Alt+J switches [R]History or [R]Super to [R]Standard
- kill gliders toggle is now on hotkey Ctrl+L
- [R]Super colours can now be customised with [[ COLOR <0..25> R G B|name ]]
- [R]Super paste can now paste and valid state with [[ PASTEMODE COPY ]]
- Help->Scripts->Colours was sometimes showing an incorrect number of states for the [[ COLOR ]] command
Build 571
- documented rainbow mode toggle hotkey in help (Alt+W)
- fixed a tiling issue for RuleTable rules
Build 570
- fixed issue with drag-to-select text not working after PopUp Viewer launched
Build 569
- fix [[ PASTET ]] in COPY mode for [R]History
Build 568
- add Rainbow toggle button to Settings->Display
Build 567
- ensure random fill% stay in valid range
Build 566
- new [R]Super colours
- abbreviate [R]Super state names in Help->Info->Theme
Build 565
- ensure paste can't create invalid states
Build 564
- fixed a bug with initial AutoFit on hex patterns
Build 563
- fixed a bug in Hash neighbourhood
Build 562
- fixed B0 with native triangular rules
Build 561
- fixed some bugs in [R]Super
Build 560
- new script command [[ EXCLUSIVEPLAY ]] will pause other Viewers when playback is started
- new script command [[ IGNOREEXCLUSIVE ]] will ignore pause requests from other Viewers
Build 559
- fixed broken 8-bit rules
Build 558
- [R]Super support for Moore, Hexagonal and von Neumann neighbourhoods
- [R]Super cells can be displayed as 2-state pattern:
- Settings->Display->[R]Super to toggle cell display
- hotkey Alt-H to enable [R]Super cell display, hotkey Alt-J to disable [R]Super cell display
- while [R]Super display is disabled Copy will copy 2-state pattern
- [R]Super cells can be cleared from a Selection in the editor with the [R] button or hotkey Ctrl+Del
- fixed maximum Bounded Grid size (depending on rule at least 6 less than max grid size)
- rainbow rendering now works with hexagons and triangles
Build 557
- improved [[ RAINBOW ]] rendering performance
- hotkey Alt+W to toggle rainbow rendering mode (only available for 2-state Life-like patterns)
- [[ RAINBOW ]] works with layers
Build 556
- Help->Aliases now marks aliases with duplicate names
- added Weighted Generations aliases
- new script command [[ THUMBSTART ]] will start playback when a thumbnail is expanded
- new script commmand [[ RAINBOW ]] will draw 2-state Life-like patterns in rainbow colours
- improved performance for range 1 Weighted and Weighted Generations rule
Build 555
- added state weights to Weighted rules
- add a comma after NW specification and then one hex digit per state
- state weight values are 0 - 15 (decimal) = 0 to f (hexadecimal)
Build 554
- added Gaussian neighbourhood for Generations
Build 553
- hotkey Ctrl+B will now create a Weighted neighbourhood from a selection if the pattern is multi-state
Build 552
- fixed HROT/LtL S limit issue
Build 551
- added the majority of Weighted aliases from MCell's built-in Weighted Life rule page
Build 550
- added two new totalistic rules:
- weighted rules
- specify with NW and then hex digits for each cell in the neighbourhood
- single hex digit for range from -7 to +7
- double hex digit for range from -127 to +127
- hexadecimal representation has MSB as sign bit
- 0 to 7 represent 0 to 7
- 8 to f represent 0 to -7
- 00 to 7f represent 0 to 127
- 80 to ff represent 0 to -127
- e.g. -3, 0, 1
5, 0, -4
1, 3, 2
becomes NWb0150c132
- e.g. -10, 5, 20
4, 100, -2
-11, 6, -20
becomes NW8a05140464828b0694
- can postfix with "H" for hex grid or "L" for triangular grid
- triangular grid will cause weightings to be treated as a triangular neighbourhood and flip vertically on alternating cells
- Gaussian rules (specify with NG)
- fixed an issue with bounded grids on tile boundaries
- fixed initial zoom for empty patterns
- don't capture F11 while LifeViewer has focus (to allow browser fullscreen toggle)
- fix an error decoding HROT rules with empty B or S sections
- embedded viewer can now resize with the browser window
- enabled with "fullscreen" keyword in content section
- triangular display is now correctly stretched for ZOOM < 4x
- allow & and : in alias names
Build 549
- close settings submenus when settings closed with hotkey
Build 548
- Waypoints now do not lock controls if there are no camera commands
- added support for triangular neighbourhoods for LtL and HROT rules
- specify with NL
- clicking or dragging the pattern during Waypoint playback (when controls are locked) will pause playback
- improved Goucher LtL format detection
- external and internal clipboard Sync is now enabled by default (to make Copy more intuitive)
- disable to use internal clipboard only for faster cut/copy/paste
- fix annotation position when drawing with triangular grid
- fixed Advance Selection for non Life-like patterns
- clipboard buttons tooltip now contains cell count
Build 547
- fixed an issue with waypoint timing
Build 546
- Identify works better with multi-state rules
Build 545
- "Click to control" doesn't show controls if AUTOHIDEGUI active
- can now drag background during AUTOHIDEGUI
- better synchronization of Annotation positions during performance throttling
Build 544
- Custom neighbourhoods now allow a postfix of "L" to specify triangular grid
- Random Pattern no longer randomizes Custom neighbourhood
Build 543
- Custom neighbourhoods now allow a postfix of "H" to specify hex grid
Build 542
- hotkey Ctrl+B converts the selection to a CoordCA neighbourhood and copies it to the external clipboard
- selection must be square and have a odd side length from 3 to 99
Build 541
- improved Custom neighbourhood performance
Build 540
- added support for Asterisk and Tripod hexagonal neighbourhoods for LtL and HROT rules
- specify with NA and N3
Build 539
- improved random rule choice for HROT rules
- added support for Custom neighbourhood for LtL and HROT rules
- specify with N@ and then hex digits
- added support for range 1 Hex Tripod neighbourhood
- specify with HT
- added support for range 1 Triangular Inner and Triangular Outer neighbourhoods
- specify with LI and LO
Build 538
- added support for Hash neighbourhood for LtL and HROT rules
- specify with N#
- added hotkey Ctrl+Shift+O to open clipboard as pattern on some browsers
Build 537
- added support for Checkerboard neighbourhood for LtL and HROT rules
- specify with NB
Build 536
- fixed "New pattern" message for non-RLE format patterns
Build 535
- added more aliases
Build 534
- hex display was incorrect from ZOOM 1x to 4x when High Quality Rendering enabled
- improved text wrapping in Help->Aliases
- hotkey "b" and "Backspace" should only step back 1 generation
Build 533
- added support for Hex neighbourhood for LtL and HROT rules
- specify with NH
- display "New pattern" if there are only state 0 cells
- playback controls were not being reset after rule change from reversible rule
- fixed some Margolus Identify issues
Build 532
- fixed LtL L2 random rule generation
- disabled Alt Gridlines button should be off
Build 531
- added more aliases
- added support for Cross, Saltire, Star and L2 neighbourhoods for Generations LtL/HROT rules
Build 530
- added support for L2 neighbourhood for LtL and HROT rules
- specify with N2
Build 529
- don't randomize pattern if the rule is invalid
- added some more aliases
- improved Cross performance for LtL and HROT rules
Build 528
- attempt to fix ignored touch events on iPad
- add [[ RANDOMIZE ]] command to create random pattern on start
Build 527
- added support for Saltire and Star neighbourhoods for LtL and HROT rules
- specify with NX (Saltire) and N* (Star)
Build 526
- added support for Cross neighbourhood for LtL and HROT rules
- specify with N+
Build 525
- Ctrl-C while Help displayed will copy topic to clipboard
Build 524
- attempt to fix second popup move on iPad
Build 523
- attempt to fix window positioning on iPad
- fix Load Pattern
Build 522
- fixed an issue with Copy to External Clipboard and Selection direction
Build 521
- fixed an issue with Nudge and Selection direction
Build 520
- annotations now support specifying the zoom range at which they will be visible
- [[ LABEL X Y ZOOM (MAXZOOM) (FIXED) "string" ]]
- [[ ARROW X1 Y1 X2 Y2 ZOOM (MAXZOOM) (FIXED) ]]
- [[ POLYLINE X1 Y1 X2 Y2 .. ZOOM (MAXZOOM) (FIXED) ]]
- [[ POLYFILL X1 Y1 X2 Y2 .. ZOOM (MAXZOOM) (FIXED) ]]
- if MAXZOOM is specified then the annotation will be visible from ZOOM to MAXZOOM
- if MAXZOOM is not specified then the annotation will be visible from ZOOM / 4 to ZOOM * 4
- negative zoom value -N mean a zoom of 1/N so ZOOM -4 is the same as ZOOM 1/4 or ZOOM 0.25
- fixed Theme button position
- fixed Help->Info->Identify having info when no identification happene
Build 519
- added BOOK Theme
Build 518
- fix [R]History 2-state paste
Build 517
- added [[ PASTEDELTA X Y ]] command
- sets incremental position delta for subsequent [[ PASTET EVERY ]] commands
Build 516
- fix [[ RLE ]] with multi-line patterns
Build 515
- display message if Identify reaches maximum period
- added some more aliases
Build 514
- fixed support for reversible alternating Margolus rules
Build 513
- fixed a couple of aliases and added a new one
Build 512
- added script command [[ REVERSESTART ]]
- sets initial playback direction to Reverse for reversible rules
- ignored for other rules
- reverse playback is also set on hard Reset
- Randomize now supports alternating rules
- Margolus gridlines now alternate by default
- Bounded Grids were clipping Margolus patterns
Build 511
- fix STEP in Waypoints
Build 510
- fix selection box position with #CXRLE Pos
Build 509
- added new aliases
- fixed Margolus bounding box on alternate generations
Build 508
- allow custom colours for RuleTable states
- fix Mod for PCA
Build 507
- disable reverse playback for alternating Margolus rules
- fixed an issue calculating rotor and stator missing the final generation
Build 506
- grey out Step Back button when disabled or at Gen 0 with non-reversible rule
- PCA state 0 drawing should draw background colour
- switched Alive, Births and Deaths label and value so the value is visible when reversible rules are loaded
Build 505
- remove Identify Close button for empty patterns
- fixed inconsitency on PCA Identify
- change Speed values to canonical form
- fix Margolus Still Life detection
Build 504
- fixed PCA Invert Selection
- fixed PCA initial population count
- changed PCA births and deaths calculation to use subcells
- fixed Change Rule incorrectly enforcing VIEWONLY
- hide Random 2-state button for PCA patterns
- check Mod values using more than 1 sample
Build 503
- hotkey Ctrl+M for middle (center pattern on display but don't change Zoom)
- check FlipX and FlipY before FlipXY in Mod detection
Build 502
- hotkey Ctrl+F will Fit Selection to the display
- remove period 1 from simplified Speed
Build 501
- better error handling for invalid LtL/HROT rules
- added more aliases
- fix Evolve Selection initial position and handling life ending
Build 500
- hotkey Ctrl+Alt+Z randomizes the pattern without changing the rule
- generations AutoFit now includes Dying states
- editor action buttons now hide when not available (rather than grey out)
- fix paste mode UI
Build 499
- new UI buttons in Select mode to nudge pattern one cell up, down, left or right
- can also use hotkeys Alt+Up, Alt+Down, Alt+Left and Alt+Right
- fix another Slope simplification for Identify
- fix Slope /1 issue for Identify
Build 498
- Ctrl+Alt+cursor hotkeys now nudge selection one cell in the specified direction
- fix non-reducible Slope for Identify
- added more aliases
Build 497
- fix Fit Zoom for triangular grid
Build 496
- simplify oblique speeds for Identify
- search for hex neighbourhood definition for @TREE rules
- add Close button for Identify
- added more aliases
Build 495
- [[ COLOR BOUNDED R G B|name ]] sets custom bounded grid border colour
- [[ COLOR SELECT R G B|name ]] sets custom selection colour
- [[ COLOR PASTE R G B|name ]] sets custom paste colour
- [[ COLOR ADVANCE R G B|name ]] sets custom advance selection colour
- fix button overlap
- Pick on the bounded grid border now always sets Dead cell for drawing
- added more aliases
- fix simplified Speeds and Slope for Identify
Build 494
- [[ RANDCHANCE FIXED ]] keeps the rule constant when generating random patterns
- handle non-integer Slopes
- fix colours for [R]History patterns containing illegal states
- add more aliases
Build 493
- fix Fit Zoom on hex grid
Build 492
- fixed a crash while drawing population graph due to no data after pattern died
Build 491
- hide Slope and Direction for Identify on non-square grid since they're not supported
Build 490
- handle selection in infinite dimension bounded grid
- hide Mod for Identify on non-square grid since it's not supported
Build 489
- fix get/set state for 2-state RuleTable rules
- fix null with reverse alias lookup
Build 488
- fix Identify for 2-state RuleTable rules
Build 487
- replace dynamic calls with switch
- reset died generation when new cells are drawn
Build 486
- don't eat commas when parsing script commands
Build 485
- fix one alias and add another
- add PCA states to Help for COLOR command
- hide Help section buttons that don't fit
- fixed notification size on scaled window
Build 484
- allow PCA state names in [[ COLOR ]] command
- ensure smooth UI icons with High Quality rendering
Build 483
- resolve Alternate rule aliases from rule
- fixed two aliases that were not in canoncial form
- Identify now reduces down displacements
- PCA colours can be set with [[ COLOR 0..15 RGB|name ]]
- added new aliases
Build 482
- Identify was not correctly identifying B0 or Alternating rule still lives
- added new aliases
- added some movement displacements to Identify output
Build 481
- use grab pointer for scrolling Help
- added more aliases
Build 480
- faster high quality rendering if none of stars, snow or grid lines are displayed
Build 479
- much faster high quality rendering performance
Build 478
- high quality rendering performance improvement
- don't use high quality renderer at integer zooms
- if pattern load failure is because of illegal cell state then don't assume rule is invalid
- high quality rendering now works with [R]History rules
Build 477
- new button Settings->Advanced->Render Quality (hotkey Ctrl+"Q") toggles rendering quality
- high quality
- cells are anti-aliased at ZOOM > 1
- slower and uses more memory
- standard quality (the original)
- default rendering mode
- faster and uses less memory
- new script command [[ QUALITY ]] enables high quality rendering
Build 476
- make pretty rendering less blurry
Build 475
- prettier rendering at ZOOM > 1
- list controls were not respecting custom background colour
Build 474
- increase update count
Build 473
- snow improvements
Build 472
- export build number
Build 471
- do not add local @RULEs to the rule cache
- fixed an issue when repository load failed
Build 470
- allow @RULE in pattern comments
Build 469
- improved @TABLE decode performance
- fix pattern settings not being reset when rule already in cache
Build 468
- fixed quotes handling in tokenizer for script commands
Build 467
- parse built-in icon sets
Build 466
- decode RuleTable @ICONS section (no render)
- IE compatibility fixes
- fixed reading RuleTables with missing final new line
- reset pattern type flags before RuleTable decode
- fix quotes in comments for tokenizer
- allow empty @TABLE or @TREE section for -shared rules
- improved @TABLE runtime performance
Build 465
- case insensitive matches for @TREE and @TABLE decoding
Build 464
- improved @TABLE runtime performance
Build 463
- added hexagonal and one dimensional neighbourhood @TABLE runtimes
- fixed colours for @TREE or @TABLE rules with only 2 states
- added improved error reporting for invalid @TREE or @TABLE rules
- allow var redefinition in @TABLE rules
Build 462
- added @TABLE support
- an optional rule name postfix may be specified with the tag on the web page hosting the Viewer
-
- an entry beginning with "." is used to define the postfix
Build 461
- further performance improvements to tokenizer
- improved performance of @TREE decoder
- fixed Identify misbehaving with LOOP
- handle HTML entities
Build 460
- fix an issue with Identify calculating wrong spaceship speeds after grid growth
- ensure RuleTable sections are at the beginning of the line
Build 459
- fix a grid boundary crash in RuleTree algo
- tokenizer uses less memory and is significantly faster
- added size and timing information to Help->Info->Rule Cache
Build 458
- decode Repository response faster
- use original rule name for Repository request
Build 457
- faster RuleTree performance for von Neumann rules with <= 16 states
Build 456
- handle html line breaks in Wiki rules
- improve clear tile performance
Build 455
- neighbourhood was sometimes wrong in Help->Info for RuleTree rules
- improved tile usage in RuleTree algorithm
- fixed set cell for RuleTree rules
- only make one request per rule
Build 454
- Identify can perform much faster since it's no longer limited by maximum STEP
- reduce chance of Identify false positives
- fix snapshot and step back issue at snapshot interval (every 64 generations)
- RuleTree algo performance improvements
Build 453
- the location of the rule Repository can be overriden with the tag on the web page hosting the Viewer
-
- an entry beginning with a "/" is used to define the location
Build 452
- fix reading comments in @COLORS section
Build 451
- support colour ramp in @COLORS section
- RuleTree definitions are cached when retrieved from repository
- cache information is in Help->Info->Rule Cache
Build 450
- fix thumbnail mode being ignored
Build 449
- experimental RuleTree support
- supports @TREE and @COLORS sections from Wiki repository
Build 448
- fix false positive for Mod on some patterns
- fix rule lookup for too big patterns
Build 447
- Ctrl+F6 will now run Identify in fast mode
- Active Cells, Mod, Temperature and Volatility are not calculated
- performance is much faster especially for large patterns
Build 446
- added Temperature (active and rotor) to Identify output for Oscillators
- added Unsimplified Speed to Identify output for Spaceships
- fixed an issue with Mod calculation for non-square bounding boxes and rotations
- Active cells counts and Volatility now work for PCA sub-cells
- disable TRACK and LOOP during Identify
Build 445
- improved Mod calculation performance for multi-state patterns
- Mod calculation now works for PCA sub-cells
- reverse playback hotkey was not working for PCA rules
- fixed Identify for alternating rules
- fixed canonical form for Hex rules
- made step back hotkey behaviour for PCA rules match Margolus rules
- fixed step back at T=0 for reversible rules
- fixed an issue with Mod buffer not being reset when loading new pattern in Viewer
- Identify results now include:
- min, max and average cells
- rotor, stator, total active cells (for Oscillators)
- min, max and average Heat (for Oscillators and Spaceships)
- Mod transformation (for Oscillators and Spaceships)
- bounding box size in cells
Build 444
- added Mod to Identify
Build 443
- added Volatility to Identify output for Oscillators
Build 442
- IE11 compatibility fix
Build 441
- improved hash function
- fixed bounding box for oscillators
- fix Identify not working with Themes with no history
Build 440
- Identify improvements:
- automatically starts searching at full STEP speed
- stops playback when finished
- displays table of results
- autofits display to result
- clicking Settings->Pattern->Identify will now close Settings menu
- Reset to hide table of results
Build 439
- Identify now adds the following metrics to Help->Info->Identify:
- Type (Still Life [0], Oscillator [1] or Spaceship [2])
- Cells (number of live cells) or if different:
- Min Cells and Max Cells [1][2]
- Bounding Box
- Direction (Orthogonal, Diagonal or Oblique) [2]
- Period [1][2]
- Slope [2]
- Speed [2]
- Heat [1][2]
- Generation (the start and end generation of detection)
Build 438
- fix various rendering issues for patterns with invalid rules
Build 437
- added Oscillator and Spaceship period detection
- toggle with Settings->Pattern->Identify (hotkey F6)
- will detect oscillators and spaceships up to a period of 2^20 generations
- Help->Info->Identify shows last search result
- adjusted position of close window button
- multi-state patterns with invalid rules were displaying as 2-state
Build 436
- fixed tab position on scaled window for error messages
- remove focus from embedded Viewer after THUMBLAUNCH
- fixed resizing bounding box after some editor action
Build 435
- PASTEMODE now accepts binary truth table output (e.g. 0001 for AND and 0111 for OR)
- PASTEMODE now allows DIFF as an alias for mode 4 (0100)
Build 434
- fixed Wolfram alternate rules
- alternate rules where the alternates are duplicates now remove duplicate from rule and alias name
- [[ PASTEMODE <0..15>|mode ]] script command now supports 16 paste modes:
- ZERO, AND, 0010, X, 0100, Y, XOR, OR, NOR, XNOR, NOTY, 1011, NOTX, 1101, NAND, ONE
- COPY can be used instead of X
Build 433
- workround for performance issue on iOS 13
Build 432
- Flip X and Flip Y now flip sub-pixels in PCA cells
- Help->Info->Theme now shows PCA Theme colour labels
- fixed editor issue with PCA rules on odd generations
Build 431
- fixed issue with PCA Theme for non-PCA rules
Build 430
- CXRLE Gen now accepts negative generations
- new Theme for PCA rules which has a different colour for each of the 4 sub-pixels
Build 429
- ensure PopUp Viewer size is consistent when using Randomize, New Pattern or Change Rule
- fixed PopUp title message size
Build 428
- PCA rules now support Randomize
- PCA population now takes into account the 4 parts per cell
- updated Help information for PCA rules
Build 427
- PCA rules now support LifeViewer history states
Build 426
- added Bounded Grid support for PCA rules
Build 425
- experimental support for PCA rules
- reverse playback is supported for reversible rules
- Bounded Grids are not yet supported and will be ignored
Build 424
- PopUp Viewer dynamically resizes with browser window and zoom level
- fix PopUp Viewer window drag scale
- pass through some browser keyboard shortcuts
Build 423
- fix cross browser window scaling
Build 422
- improved window scaling for PopUp Viewer
- fixed PopUp Viewer controls not responding when browser scrolled
Build 421
- fix image loading issue on Firefox
- fix button scale
Build 420
- more accurate window scale for PopUp Viewer
Build 419
- fix window scale on high DPI devices on forum
- fix title bar on new Wiki
Build 418
- fixed LifeViewer title bar on new forum
- add generation to T menu
Build 417
- T button tooltip now shows generation
- Life ended notification wasn't always triggering correctly
- keep camera position when Life ends
- Randomize was discarding [R]History postfix
- ignore out of range [[ RANDCHANCE ]] specific birth or survival condition
- Randomize was generating B0 for Generations rules
Build 416
- new script commands to customize the Randomize random pattern generator
- [[ RANDSEED ]] sets the random seed (so you can have the same random pattern each time)
- [[ RANDWIDTH <1..1024> ]] sets the width of the randomly generated pattern (default is 64)
- [[ RANDHEIGHT <1..1024> ]] sets the height of the randomly generated pattern (default is 64)
- this is fixed at 1 for Wolfram patterns
- [[ RANDFILL <1..100> ]] sets the random fill percentage for the pattern
- new script commands to customize the Randomzie random rule generator
- Life-like rules:
- [[ RANDCHANCE - <0..100> ]] - set percentage chance of
- being generated
-
- can be:
- ALL - all items
- B - all birth conditions
- S - all survival conditions
- B - specific birth condition
- S - specific survival condition
- random chance defaults to 50 for all conditions except B0 which defaults to 25
- Margolus patterns:
- [[ RANDREVERSIBLE ]] generate a reversible rule
- [[ RANDFIXEDPOP ]] generate a fixed population rule
Build 415
- new button Settings->Pattern->Randomize (hotkey Alt+"Z") which creates a random 64x64 pattern with a random rule
- the rule is based on the current rule family
- the rule will have the same number of states and neighbourhood as the original rule
Build 414
- Margolus enhancements
- made gridline colours more distinct
- Step Forward and Step Back controls are reversed during reverse playback
- Step Back now respects generations-per-step setting
- hotkeys Tab and Shift+Tab step forward and back generations-per-step generations
- hotkeys Space and "b" step forward and back one generation
- [[ PASTE EVERY ]] is disabled when current generation is less than maximum generation reached
- maximum generation reached is zeroed on Reset
Build 413
- new button Settings->Display->Alt Gridlines to toggle Margolus alternating odd/even gridlines (hotkey Alt+"D")
- Change Rule and New Pattern now support Bounded Grid suffix
- if in Draw or Select mode when Auto GridLines is enabled then turn on GridLines
- setting [[ GRIDMAJOR ]] with no other custom Theme settings creates a Custom Theme based on the default or specified Theme with the specified grid major interval
Build 412
- fixed mouse wheel zoom so it works better with "Smooth scrolling" features
Build 411
- improved how Step Back works with reversible Margolus rules
- added a few non-totalistic aliases
Build 410
- Paste commands now allow blank cells in COPY mode
Build 409
- lock Direction button during waypoint playback
- reset playback direction to forward during waypoint playback
- thumbnail launch was only working the first time on touch devices
- added some new aliases
- Margolus patterns now show Margolus generation
- absolute generation is shown in Generation Statistics (toggle with bottom left button or hotkey "G")
- absolute generation is needed for Waypoint, Annotation, Stop and Loop commands
Build 408
- added new Reverse direction button to toggle playback direction for reversible Margolus rules
- improved Population Graph vertical fit
Build 407
- [[ PASTET EVERY ]] now works with Margolus reverse playback when Margolus generation >= 0
- Margolus generation number is now in Help->Info->Grid
- fixed an issue where [[ PASTE ]] commands weren't happening on step back
Build 406
- allow reverse playback for reversible alternate Margolus rules
- new script command [[ NOTHROTTLE ]] will disable playback throttling
- Margolus rules can now use right hand tile column on the grid
Build 405
- fixed alternate Margolus rules
- fixed a few Margolus aliases
Build 404
- tooltips will now split at | to improve alternating rule display
- tooltips now scale with window
- graph axes now scale with window
- reverse playback for Margolus rules (hotkey "U" to toggle direction)
- toggle UI is now on hotkey Shift+"U"
- close Help and Errors when UI switched off
Build 403
- do not dim display if settings menu open and UI is hidden because of Auto Hide UI
- Margolus alternate rules were the wrong way round
- fix colour box alignment in Help when window scaled
Build 402
- fix title bar sizing
- handle conflicting accesskey attributes
Build 401
- ignore trailing # for string substitutions
- fixed rendering with layers
- improved handling when plugin included multiple times
Build 400
- Settings menu buttons are now more descriptive
- new Settings menu Display setting: Auto Grid (hotkey Ctrl+"G")
- turns on grid lines when switching to Draw and Select modes
- turns off grid lines when switching to Pan mode
- new Settings menu Pattern action: New Pattern (hotkey Alt+"N")
- creates a new empty pattern
- new Settings menu Info setting: Relative Gen (hotkey Shift+"G")
- when #CXRLE Gen is defined toggles the generation display between Absolute and Relative
- State Slider now hidden for Generations patterns when states fit on display
- selecting a drawing state with hotkeys Ctrl+"0" to Ctrl+"9" now scrolls state selection UI to show new state
- PopUp Viewer scales on high DPI devices
Build 399
- Settings menu now has Pattern section
- Rule (hotkey Alt+"R") prompts for a new rule
- Save (hotkey Ctrl+"S") saves the current pattern as RLE to the source document node
- Load (hotkey Ctrt+"O") loads the last saved pattern from the source document node
Build 398
- fixed an issue where sometimes touch events were deferring clicks
Build 397
- fixed capitalisation on error messages
- fixed crash on attempting to load patterns that are too big
Build 396
- the PopUp Viewer Close button is back and now has a red background
- Margolus patterns now use GRIDMAJOR 2 for all Themes except Custom
- LifeViewer was broken on IE
- added a new alias
- fixed Margolus even generation tile issue
Build 395
- removed close UI button from PopUp Viewer now window close button works
- switch to Pan mode when Population Graph is turned on (since it's not visible in Draw or Select mode)
- improved touch event handling
- fixed scrolling help list on mobile device
Build 394
- added new Margolus THEME
- added new Margolus alias
- fixed a tile boundary issue with Margolus rule
Build 393
- added experimental support for Margolus rules
- rule format is Mn0,n1,n2,n3,n4,n5,n6,n7,n8,n9,n10,n11,n12,n13,n14,n15
- where n0 to n15 are integers from 0 to 15
- also supports MS,Dn0;n1;n2;n3;n4;n5;n6;n7;n8;n9;n10;n11;n12;n13;n14;n15
- bounded grids and alternate rules are allowed
- rules where n0 = 15 and n15 = 0 are replaced with equivalent rules that don't strobe
- rules where n0 is not zero apart from the case above are not allowed
- using [[ GRIDMAJOR ]] creates a custom Theme
Build 392
- performance improvement for editing tasks for 2-state Life-like and [R]History patterns
- fixed an issue where rotate selection could be incorrect when grid grew
Build 391
- ensure window appears above other page elements
- dim screen when Settings menu displayed
Build 390
- fixed a graphical glitch for THEMEs with no history at STEP > 1
- corrected and ordered Wolfram aliases
- disable drawing, selecting and panning while settings displayed
Build 389
- locked Layers and Depth controls if hex or triangular grid
- added Wolfram aliases
- improved multi-state pattern Layers
- LifeViewer window close button now works on mobile
Build 388
- improved Settings menu
- settings are now grouped into topics
- new Rule button that prompts for a new rule
- clicking on a Theme that is already active just closes Theme selection
- reduced memory used by rule
Build 387
- added another alias
- Generations rules now have brightness shading when using layers
- hotkey Shift+"P" to toggle LOOP (when defined) wasn't working
- performance improvement for THEMEs without history
- START indicator now toggles AutoStart if defined
- hotkey Alt+"O" to toggle
- if START disabled when LOOP defined then playback stops when Loop happens at T=0
- STOP indicator now toggles Stop if defined
- hotkey Alt+"P" to toggle
- take screenshot (hotkey "O") was not working
Build 386
- hotkey Alt+"Del" to clear [R]History marked cells
- hotkey "Esc" will cancel a Pick or Replace
Build 385
- hotkey Shift+"A" shrinks selection
- toggle kill escaping gliders is now on hotkey Alt+"G"
- replace cells of selected state with current drawing state
- hotkey Alt+"K" prompts the user to click on a cell and then replaces cells that state with current drawing state
- clear current drawing state cells
- hotkey Ctrl+Alt+"K"
- hotkey for random fill is now Shift+"5"
- hotkeys Ctrl+"0" to Ctrl+"9" select drawing state
Build 384
- clear out side selection
- new button in Select mode
- hotkey Shift+"Del"
- clear [R]History cells
- new button in Select mode
Build 383
- selections now work with [[ XOFFSET ]] and [[ YOFFSET ]]
- added more new aliases
- performance warning toggle
- hotkey Shift+"W" to toggle
- new button PerfWarn in Settings menu
- undo/redo now use less memory
- LtL M0 rules will now match M1 aliases
Build 382
- added Throttle button to Settings menu
- fixed an issue with HROT/LtL patterns not correctly shrinking bounding box
- close Settings menu when switching mode
- added new aliases
Build 381
- enable Kill button for 2-state Moore range 1 HROT/LtL patterns
- fixed [R]History display for hexagons and triangles
- hotkey for clear [R]History cells is now Ctrl+"Del"
- added some non-isotropic aliases
Build 380
- hotkey Alt+"T" to toggle playback throttling
- [R]History COLOR commands were being ignored
- hexagons and triangles were ignoring [R]History colours
- updated MCell multi-state Theme
Build 379
- hide POI prev/next buttons when Settings menu is displayed
- grey out Kill button unless rule is 2-state Moore
- replaced Theme slider with a Theme button that opens a page of buttons to select the required theme
- hotkeys Alt+"0" to Alt+"9" select drawing states when in Draw mode
- hotkey "Del" clears all cells of the current drawing state when in Draw mode
- hotkey Shift+"Del" clears [R]History cells
- ensure PopUp Viewer is right aligned
Build 378
- updated out of date test
- fixed problem with colours for Generations patterns
- switching from a history THEME to a non-history THEME sometimes stepped back a generation
- added Grid colour description to "Help" -> "Themes"
- live cells drawn after all cells died would then not generate
- you can no longer switch between square grid and hexagonal or offset square grid
- removed script commands [[ SQUAREDISPLAY ]] and [[ HEXDISPLAY ]]
- removed hotkeys Alt-/ and Shift-/
- removed Hex toggle button from Settings menu
- hotkey / now toggles between hexagonal and offset square grid for hexagonal rules
- new Settings toggle button AutoHide
- automatically hides UI during pattern playback
- Angle control now greys out when unavailable
- Theme control now greys out when unavailable
Build 377
- custom colours were reporting false errors
- fixed issue with LtL/HROT 2 state patterns and THEMEs with no history
Build 376
- added endian information and platform capabilities to "Help" -> "Info" -> "Engine"
- several performance improvements
- disable Major button for hexagonal or triangular grids
- custom Theme major grid line setting was being applied to all themes
Build 375
- increased maximum viewer size to 4096x4096
- improved rendering to window speed
- fixed B0 rules
Build 374
- performance improvement for next generation (excluding LtL/HROT)
- population statistics were incorrect if stats were off and pattern had bounded grid
- improved allocation speed for random grid
Build 373
- performance improvement for THEMEs with history
Build 372
- performance improvement for ZOOM < 1
- performance improvement for THEMEs without history and ZOOM < 1
- [[ TIME ]] output now has one decimal place
Build 371
- performance improvement for THEMEs without history
- new script command [[ TIME ]] to trigger timing at a waypoint
- waypoint messages can now use string substitutions #0 to #9 to display timing results as average frames per second
Build 370
- performance improvement when ZOOM < -2
- not all menu items were being drawn locked when menu locked
- performance improvement for THEMEs without history and STEP size 1
- performance improvement for THEMEs without history when ZOOM < 1
- switching to a THEME without history clears history cell
Build 369
- Performance improvement for cell history and longevity
- Performance improvement when ZOOM < 1
- THEMEs without history (Mono, Inverse, Golly, MCell, Caterer and Life32) and PASTE commands now have improved performance at STEP sizes > 1
Build 368
- Advance Outside now works in a single step with Undo/Redo
- Advance Outside now always uses Copy paste mode
- fixed POPUPWIDTH validation
Build 367
- improved performance for hexagonal grid selection display
- improved selection and paste boxes for triangular grid
- paste bottom left and bottom right positions were the wrong way round
Build 366
- create and clear selection were missing from undo/redo
- improved selection and paste boxes for offset-square grid and hexagonal grid
- horizontal and vertical flip were not working for paste
Build 365
- selections now respect [[ VIEWONLY ]]
- fixes for undo/redo during playback
Build 364
- there are now four additional standard paste locations: Top, Left, Right, bottom
- Ctrl-C with no selection copies entire pattern to external clipboard
Build 363
- selection and paste boxes now work with camera rotation
- hotkey Ctrl "Space" to advance paste generation
- select required cells (green box)
- cut selection with Ctrl "X"
- advance paste generation one or more times with Ctrl "Space"
- yellow bounding box will show location of advanced paste
- Ctrl+Shift "V" pastes evolved position (yellow box)
- left click or Enter pastes to mouse position (red box)
- Esc cancels paste
- Ctrl "Z" then Ctrl "X" to start paste again
Build 362
- hotkey Shift "L" to cycle paste location
- hotkey Shift "M" to cycle paste mode
- hotkey Alt "L" to toggle annotation display (was previously hotkey Shift "L")
- don't draw individual paste cells if zoom < 1 (just the paste rectangle)
- Paste to Selection will tile the paste if the selection is bigger than the paste
- auto-shrink no longer removes empty selections so they can be used for Paste Selection
Build 361
- auto-shrink feature will automatically shrink selections to alive cells
- Auto-Shrink toggle button in Selection menu
- hotkey Alt "A" to toggle
- fixed bug when growing grid during drawing
- fixed bug with undo/redo while drawing during playback
- hotkey Ctrl+Shift "V" pastes to selection
Build 360
- [R]History state 2 was being ignored on pattern load
- some patterns were failing when the grid grows
- hotkeys Alt "0" to Alt "9" makes one of 10 clipboards the active one
- paste rectangle will update if visible to new clipboard contents
- using hotkey when specified clipboard already selected triggers paste
- prevent selection controls from going off bottom of window
- added 2-state random fill button when multi-state pattern loaded
- fixed an issue with selection box and undo
- replaced main Copy button with Sync toggle which if set synchronises cut and copy actions with external clipboard
- hotkey Alt "S" toggles sync
Build 359
- Select mode Copy button copies to internal clipboard unless there is no selection in which case to external clipboard
- main menu Copy button always copies entire pattern to external clipboard (regardless of selection)
- Cut button copies to internal clipboard
- Paste button displays paste cells which can be dragged to required position and then click to paste
- when paste cells displayed flip X, flip Y, rotate CW, rotate CCW, random fill, clear and invert work on the paste cells
- hotkey "Esc" clears paste if paste displayed
- hotkey "Enter" performs paste if paste displayed
- hotkey Alt "N" prompts for rule and then creates a new empty pattern
- hotkey Alt "R" prompts for new rule for the current pattern
- new Paste Position slider defines where to paste relative to the mouse
- lock Hexagon toggle if not in hex display mode
- hotkey Ctrl+Shift "5" for 2-state only random fill
- hotkey Ctrl "O" to load original or last saved pattern
Build 358
- added selection box display
- hotkey Ctrl "I" for invert selection
- don't rotate selection if result doesn't fit in bounded grid
- fix dragging selection in bounded grid
- population count could be incorrect at generation 0 if stats off while editing
Build 357
- grow grid if required when selecting
- fix a rendering issue after some selection actions
- fixed an issue with bounding box after deleting cells
- don't rotate selection if result doesn't fit on the grid
- hotkey Ctrl "A" for select all
- hotkey Ctrl "K" for remove selection
- hotkey "Del" for clear selection
- hotkey Ctrl "5" for random fill
- hotkey ">" rotates selection or camera clockwise 90 degrees
- hotkey "<" rotates selection or camera counter-clockwise 90 degrees
- hotkey Ctrl "Y" for redo (also hotkey Ctrl+Shift "Z")
- hotkey Ctrl "X" for cut
- hotkey Ctrl "V" for paste
- hotkey "Backspace" for back one step (also hotkey "B")
- hotkey Alt "Y" for flip Y
- hotkey Alt "X" for flip X
- hotkey Alt "B" for toggle cell borders (moved from hotkey Alt "X")
- hotkey Shift "F2" for toggle smart drawing (moved from hotkey Shift "F1")
- fixed Help text wrapping
- added invert selection button
Build 356
- Draw mode was incorrectly always showing a minimum of 7 states for Generations patterns
- Select mode Random fill was only using 2 states for Generations patterns
- selection and cancel selection are now undo/redo points
- selection rotation is now consistent
Build 355
- selections now support:
- selecting a rectangle of cells (no-selection box visible yet)
- flip X
- flip Y
- rotate clockwise
- rotate counter-clockwise
- random fill with user defined density from 0% to 100%
- clear cells in selection
- opening help will close settings and vice versa
- fixed an issue with redo and snapshots
- fixed draw buttons being hidden with states toggle
Build 354
- fixed selecting drawing state
- disable starting playback while mid-draw
Build 353
- hide Draw, Graph and Select menus when Settings open
- selection size display (width x height)
- sometimes playback wasn't resuming after auto-paused during drawing
Build 352
- do not draw when clicking to get window focus
- remove unneeded extra undo step
- added Smart Drawing button to Draw menu
- increased maximum number of LtL and HROT states to 25
Build 351
- redo no longer goes back to previous snapshot
- picked cell colour notification wasn't displaying
- stop playback on undo
- fix step back with undo
- added undo/redo detail to button tooltips
Build 350
- moved graph controls below top row
- graph is now hidden if drawing or selecting
- new toggle button to control whether playback is paused during drawing
- fixed playback pause during editing
- improved toggle states icon
- added select mode UI controls
Build 349
- pause playback while drawing
- settings menu buttons are larger and cluster better
- changed "Step back" to "Undo/Redo" in "Help"->"Info"
- icons now grey out (not just the text)
- Pick mode was not being cancelled when another mode selected
Build 348
- handle LifeViewer being loaded more than once in a web page
- hotkey F2 draw mode
- hotkey F3 pick mode
- hotkey F4 select mode
- hotkey F5 pan mode
- undo and redo buttons were not being hidden for VIEWONLY patterns
- mouse cursor changes based on action
- UI list control can now lock individual items
Build 347
- added "Undo" and "Redo" buttons to main menu
- improved how Reset works with Undo/Redo
- new settings icon
- added "Copy" button to copy current pattern as RLE to clipboard
- increased minimum width by 80 pixels
- locked UI controls were allowing clicks through to the background
Build 346
- fixed a bug where the playback controls were disappearing after reset
Build 345
- state 6 regression in editor
- new "[R]History" button in navigation menu to toggle [R]History display
- new previous and next POI button on main screen if POIs defined
Build 344
- fixed undo/redo records persisting across patterns
Build 343
- hotkey Ctrl "Z" for undo edit
- hotkey Ctrl+Shift "Z" for redo edit
- hotkey Alt "J" disables [R]History display and Alt "H" enables it
- only works for [R]History rules
- this is only a display toggle: state 6 processing still happens
- however: copy RLE to clipboard will honour current settings
- hotkey Alt "K" toggles deleting escaping gliders
- new "Kill" button in navigation menu to toggle deleting escaping gliders
- number of deleted gliders is shown in "Help" -> "Info" -> "Grid"
- editor now works with step back
Build 342
- hotkey Ctrl "S" now saves pattern to source document node
Build 341
- [[ KILLGLIDERS ]] now fades dead gliders
Build 340
- [[ PASTET EVERY ]] now has optional end generation (as well as optional start generation)
- [[ PASTET EVERY interval (start (end)) ]]
- if specified then "end" must be at least "interval" + "start"
- new script command [[ RECIPE ]] creates a named list to be used by [[ PASTET ]] command
- syntax is [[ RECIPE name <1..>* ]]
- [[ PASTET <0..> (name|<1..>*)* ]]
- [[ RLE ]] and [[ RECIPE ]] names can not be script command names
- display actual STEP size if specified size can not be achieved
Build 339
- new script command [[ KILLGLIDERS ]] will delete escaping boundary gliders
- better PASTE information in "Help" -> "Info" -> "Pattern"
- fixed [[ PASTET EVERY ]]
Build 338
- performance improvement to setting cells
- patterns that are too big for LifeViewer but have [[ PASTE ]] commands will ignore the pattern and just run the pastes
Build 337
- improved paste evolution performance
- don't block F5 from refreshing browser when mouse over LifeViewer window
- rle for [[ PASTE ]] and [[ RLE ]] commands can now span multiple lines
Build 336
- paste mode XOR was not working on reset or step back
- max initial default zoom if AUTOFIT or ZOOM not specified is now 32x
- [[ PASTE ]] X Y location is now optional and defaults to 0, 0
- syntax is now [[ PASTE rle|name (X Y) (TRANS) ]]
- [[ RLE ]] syntax is now [[ RLE name (X Y) (TRANS) ]]
- [[ PASTET ]] now supports a list of deltas after the initial generation
- syntax is now [[ PASTET <0..> (<1..>)* ]] or [[ PASTET EVERY <1..> (<0..>) ]]
Build 335
- paste commands now support optional transformations:
- [[ PASTE rle|name X Y (TRANS) ]]
- paste the rle or named rle at X, Y with optional transformation TRANS
- [[ RLE name rle (X Y (TRANS)) ]]
- create named rle at optional X, Y with optional transformation TRANS
- TRANS is one of:
- IDENTITY
- FLIP
- FLIPX
- FLIPY
- SWAPXY
- SWAPXYFLIP
- RCW
- RCCW
- [[ PASTE ]] now works with Generations rules
- state at cursor position label widens for grids > 9999x9999
Build 334
- new script command [[ PASTET ]]
- defines the paste generation for subsequent [[ PASTE ]] commands
- [[ PASTET gen ]] pastes once on the specified gen
- [[ PASTET EVERY interval (start) ]] pastes every interval generations starting at start (or 0 if not defined)
- [[ PASTE ]] command no longer has the T parameter
- adjusted snapshot interval to new maximum STEP size
Build 333
- [[ RLE ]] and [[ RLEMODE ]] are now called [[ PASTE ]] and [[ PASTEMODE ]]
- new script command [[ RLE name rle ]] defines a named snippet of RLE
- [[ PASTE ]] command can take name or rle as argument
- fixed a bug where an invalid pattern could cause a crash on the PopUp Viewer if the previous valid pattern had been [R]History
- fixed a bug where T=0 could not show entire pattern on the PopUpViewer if previous pattern had smaller bounding box
- fixed a bug where drawing LifeHistory state 5 would be incorrect on one corner of 16x16 tile boundaries
Build 332
- Generations rules were fading an extra step when all cells died
Build 331
- added new script command [[ RLEMODE (OR|COPY|XOR|AND|NOT) ]] to set rle paste mode
Build 330
- added new script command [[ RLE T X Y rle ]]
- pastes the given rle at position X, Y at generation T
Build 329
- improved rule name validation
- fixed script reader
Build 328
- custom colour could not be applied to state 255
- deprecated [[ STRICT ]] validation command
- increased maximum STEP to 64
- first part of @RULE and @TREE decoder
Build 327
- global camera and view settings were being ignored when POIs defined
- disabled Themes for "none" rule
Build 326
- "none" rule now uses Golly's default colour set
- disable [R]History for "none" rule
Build 325
- added empty rule "none" which does not change cells each generation
- can be postfixed with neighbourhood and/or bounded grid
- default colours are generations ramp
Build 324
- custom colours for Generations rules were in reverse order
- increased maximum zoom to 64x
- hotkey Shift and "3" sets 64x zoom
Build 323
- updated Neighbourhood in Help information with triangular neighbourhood
- canonical alias names are used
- fixed Wolfram rules
- drawing on a triangular grid is now more accurate
- fixed an issue with Triangular B0 rules
- AutoFit now works better on bounded grids with an infinite dimension
Build 322
- improved hexagonal cell drawing
- fix for LV neighbourhood
Build 321
- changed neighbourhood postfixes from T, TE, TV to L, LE, LV
Build 320
- further improvements to triangular cell alignment
- triangular patterns may be padded with a blank row and/or column on copy to ensure even/odd alignment
Build 319
- added B0 support for triangular rules
- improved triangular cell alignment
Build 318
- drawing cells wasn't correctly updating tile map
- triangular rules now ignore HEXDISPLAY script command
- check bounded grid width and height are even for triangular rules
- triangular rules now support three neighbourhoods:
- Triangular (postfix "T") with 12 neighbours (touching triangle edges and vertices)
- neighbourhood digits are "0123456789XYZ" where X, Y and Z represent 10, 11 and 12 respectively
- Triangular Edges (postfix "TE") with 3 neighbours (touching triangle edges)
- neighbourhood digits are "0123"
- Triangular Vertices (postfix "TV") with 9 neighbours (touching triangle vertices)
- neighbourhood digits are "0123456789"
- cells can now have a border
- "Border" button in bottom-right menu
- hotkey Alt and "X" to toggle setting
- new script command [[ CELLBORDERS ]] to turn cell borders on
Build 317
- experimental support for triangular neighbourhood
- rules with a postfix "T" have 12-cell triangular neighbourhood
- neighbourhood digits are "0123456789ABC" where A, B and C represent 10, 11 and 12 respectively
- generations rules are supported
- known issues:
- B0 support is not correct
- Copy RLE needs to correctly offset for odd/even cells
- zooms < 4 have a different y scaling
- step back was not working correctly every 50 generations
Build 316
- fixed single phase Copy on Firefox
- fixed step back after patterns dies
Build 315
- could not edit patterns which had cylindrical bounded grids
- hex patterns would not display cylindrical bounded grid borders when using hexagons
- improved hexagonal grid lines drawing speed
Build 314
- fixed hexagonal grid colours
- addded isotropic non-totalistic hexagonal aliases
Build 313
- added Paul Callahan's isotropic non-totalistic hex rule format
- only allocate hex buffers on first use
- created annotations topic in help
Build 312
- ensure hexagonal grid lines are integer thickness (for speed)
- fixed an issue with pattern comments on invalid patterns causing a crash
- fixed an issue with pattern specified width and height not being ignored
- improved hexagon cell drawing speed
- grid icon now has hexagonal grid when hexagons selected
Build 311
- drawing hexagonal cells is a bit faster
- added hexagonal grid lines
- hex or von Neumann rule letter can be before Generations postfix e.g.: B23/S1H/G3
Build 310
- made hexagons more regular shaped
- hotkey Alt+"/" to toggle hexagonal/square cells for hex display
- new script command [[ SQUARECELLS ]] to set square cells for hex display
- new script command [[ HEXCELLS ]] to set hexagonal cells for hex display (the default)
- new bottom right menu button "Hexagon" to toggle hexagonal/square cells
Build 309
- annotation positions were not correct in hex display mode
- in hex display mode cells are now drawn as hexagons at zoom >= 4
Build 308
- ensure copied RLE comments end with newline
- comments found after RLE now get copied after RLE
Build 307
- added more flexibility to rule decoder for B/S style rules
- added support for #P|#R x,y in RLE to set pattern top left position
- added support for "h = nnn, v = nnn" in rule header
- new annotation polygons:
- new script command [[ POLYLINE X1 Y1 X2 Y2 .. Xn Yn ZOOM ]]
- draw polyline from X1, Y1, to X2, Y2, to Xn, Yn at zoom ZOOM
- new script command [[ POLYFILL X1 Y1 X2 Y2 .. Xn Yn ZOOM ]]
- draw filled polygon from X1, Y1, to X2, Y2, to Xn, Yn at zoom ZOOM
- new script command [[ POLYALPHA <0.0..1.0> ]]
- set alpha value for subsequent polygon definitions
- new script command [[ POLYSIZE <1..> ]]
- set line width for subsequent polygon definitions
- new script command [[ POLYT ]]
- sets a range of generations from to for subsequent polygons to be visible
- specifies generations to fade polygon in/out
- use [[ POLYT ALL ]] to specify all generations
- new script command [[ POLYANGLE <0..359> (FIXED) ]]
- sets the angle for subsequent polygon definitions
- optional keyword FIXED means polygon will not rotate when camera rotates
- new script command [[ COLOR POLY R G B|]]
- set colour for subsequent polygon definitions
- new script command [[ POLYTARGET X Y D|OFF ]]
- sets the target point and distance for subsequent polygon definitions
- the viewpoint must be within the distance of the target point for the polygon to be displayed
- [[ POLYTARGET OFF ]] turns off the target for subsequent polygon definitions
- new script command [[ POLYTRACK DX DY|FIXED ]]
- sets movement vector for subsequent polygon definitions
- [[ POLYTRACK FIXED ]] turns off movement for subsequent polygon definitions
Build 306
- fixes for IE and Edge
Build 305
- arrow head size can now be zero to allow for line drawing
- arrow head size is now specified as a multiple of arrow length rather than percentage
- [[ ARROWSIZE <1..> <0.0..1.0> ]]
Build 304
- added label and arrow definitions to help information
- toggle labels was not working if just arrows defined
Build 303
- new annotation arrows:
- new script command [[ ARROW X1 Y1 X2 Y2 ZOOM (FIXED) ]]
- draw arrow from X1,Y1 to X2,Y2 at zoom ZOOM
- new script command [[ ARROWALPHA <0.0..1.0> ]]
- set alpha value for subsequent arrow definitions
- new script command [[ ARROWSIZE <1..> <1.0..100.0> ]]
- set line width and head size percentage for subsequent arrow definitions
- new script command [[ ARROWT ]]
- sets a range of generations from to for subsequent arrows to be visible
- specifies generations to fade arrow in/out
- use [[ ARROWT ALL ]] to specify all generations
- new script command [[ ARROWANGLE <0..359> (FIXED) ]]
- sets the arrow angle for subsequent arrow definitions
- optional keyword FIXED means arrow will not rotate when camera rotates
- new script command [[ COLOR ARROW R G B|]]
- set arrow colour for subsequent arrow definitions
- new script command [[ ARROWTARGET X Y D|OFF ]]
- sets the target point and distance for subsequent arrow definitions
- the viewpoint must be within the distance of the target point for the arrow to be displayed
- [[ ARROWTARGET OFF ]] turns off the target for subsequent arrow definitions
- new script command [[ ARROWTRACK DX DY|FIXED ]]
- sets movement vector for subsequent arrow definitions
- [[ ARROWTRACK FIXED ]] turns off movement for subsequent arrow definitions
- new script command [[ AUTOHIDEGUI ]] will hide GUI while playing
- click while playing to pause and show GUI
- hotkeys are still enabled
- new script command [[ NOPERFWARNING ]] removes GPS/STEP shading when performance is slow
- hotkeys Ctrl-Left, Ctrl-Right, Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Down can be used for Page Up, Page Down, Home and End
- bottom right menu now has "Prev" and "Next" buttons to go to previous and next universe when in Multiverse mode
- copy reset position now works when in Multiverse mode
Build 302
- label positions can now be from -MAXGRIDSIZE to 2*MAXGRIDSIZE
- fps display < 10 now shows one decimal place
- clear notifications on pattern load
- Waypoint animation was incorrect at STEP > 1
Build 301
- hotkey Ctrl+Alt "C" copies current pattern with comments
- Life 1.05 decoder now ignores trailing spaces
- added support for trailing g for Generations rules e.g. B3S23G10
- copying empty patterns is faster
- improved RLE generation speed
- grid automatically grows as needed when drawing
Build 300
- multiverse mode
- new meta keyword "multi" puts the Viewer in multiverse mode
- RLE on the page is now added to a list of Universes (patterns) that can by cycled through in a single Viewer
- hotkey "PageUp" goes to previous universe
- hotkey "PageDown" goes to next universe
- hotkey "Home" goes to first universe
- hotkey "End" goes to last universe
- Help text could incorrectly wrap because of shadow
- Copy pattern failed on full lines
Build 299
- graph and labels were not rendering during copy RLE or computing previous generations
- graph was broken when computing previous generations
- use single phase copy if time and size are below thresholds
Build 298
- copying LifeHistory RLE needs to use history bounding box
- switch off custom Theme on new pattern load
- always compute all history generations for [R]History patterns regardless of Theme
- copy now happens in two steps to support large patterns
Build 297
- hotkey Ctrl "C" now copies current pattern as RLE to clipboard
- hotkey Shift+Ctrl "C" copies original pattern as RLE to clipboard
- disable editing while in view only mode
Build 296
- multi-state drawing now supports all states
- Help sections are displayed when topic is first displayed and disappear when clicked
- added Help sections button to show Help sections when hidden
- Help sections list updates as Help topic scrolls
- label positions were being validated against screen coordinates and not cell coordinates
- patterns were not being correctly validated against maximum grid size
- view offset was not being correctly reset when grid resized to default
Buld 295
- added notifications when using Pick control or choosing a drawing colour
- added multi-state drawing (but colour selection limited to 7 states currently)
Build 294
- added Help section UI to each topic
- added alternating rule aliases
- hotkey Shift "F1" to toggle smart drawing
- smart drawing automatically deletes cells if you start drawing on a cell whose state is the current drawing state
- always create overlay for LifeHistory patterns since states can be created by the editor
- added pick state control to editor
- added toggle states display control to editor
- [R]History patterns can now be edited
Build 293
- fixed HROT multi-state pattern runtime
- fixed Globe alias
- don't processes unneeded history states
- reorganised script help
- can now define UI border colour with [[ COLOR UIBORDER R G B| ]]
Build 292
- alternating rule support
- use a | between two rule names to define even/odd generation rules
- e.g. rule = Life|HighLife
- does not support B0
- first part of UI customization
- can now define UI colours using [[ COLOR
- R G B| ]] where
- is one of:
- UIFOREGROUND for foreground colour
- UIBACKGROUND for background colour
- UIHIGHLIGHT for colour when mouse is over control
- UISELECT for colour when item is selected
- UILOCKED for colour when item is locked
- menu foreground default colour is now white
- fixed a couple of LTL alias definitions
- disable drawing while viewing help or errors
Build 291
- Ltl/HROT patterns now use DELETERANGE when patterns reach the grid boundary
- Zoom and Opacity sliders are wider when the Viewer is wider
Build 290
- added a Labels button to the bottom right menu to toggle label display
- added missing Help information for hotkey "K" and Shift "K"
- copy view to clipboard (hotkey Shift and "K") now uses Theme names and handles custom Themes
- allow empty patterns
- remove "Life ended at" message when grid was empty when play started
- each Help topic is now in a separate page
- Help topics page now has individual buttons for each topic
Build 289
- improved handling of custom Theme definitions
- for all Themes:
- if ALIVE not specified then set it to the inverse of DEAD or the inverse of BACKGROUND or white
- if both BACKGROUND and DEAD not specified then set BACKGROUND to the inverse of ALIVE or black
- if DEAD not specified then set it to BACKGROUND
- if DEADRAMP not specified then set it to DEAD
- for 2-state Themes:
- if ALIVERAMP not specified then set it to ALIVE
- for multi-state Themes:
- if DYING not specified then make DYING to step 2 of ALIVE to DYINGRAMP dynamic
- if DYINGRAMP not specified then set it to DYING
- added more aliases
- aliases with the same rule are marked with '*' in the Help information Aliases topic
Build 288
- fixed an issue with HROT/LtL von Neumann patterns not allocating a large enough border to cause grid to grow correctly
- hex coordinates were wrong
- colour Themes now have names
- the [[ THEME ]] script command can take a theme number or name
- the Help Information has a new "Themes" topic that lists the theme definitions
- grid lines definition is also included in the Theme
- added a few new aliases
- improved Help information text wrapping
- COLOR DEAD is now the cell colour when it first dies and COLOR DEADRAMP is the colour it becomes after staying dead
Build 287
- new Draw and Pan buttons
- improved LtL multi-state von Neumann performance for large range patterns
- Generations population statistics were wrong
- memory details in Help information could be negative
- reduced memory consumption for 2-state startup
- rule aliases were not appearing for HROT/LtL rules
- long rule aliases now wrap across two lines in Help information
- fixed an issue with HROT rule validation
- added some more aliases
Build 286
- population data is now dynamically allocated to reduce memory footprint
- Themes can not be changed for patterns with illegal rules or states
- population graph disabled for patterns with illegal rules or states
- PopUp Viewer window right alignment now happens in a single step
- pattern area display was not working in Help information
- AUTOFIT and HISTORYFIT fit now work with HROT/LtL patterns
- new HistFit button in bottom right menu to toggle HISTORYFIT mode
- don't lock ANGLE control when AUTOFIT on
- new Major button in bottom right menu to toggle major grid lines
- update display after every step back
- AutoFit works better at high zooms and/or step sizes > 1
Build 285
- new Stars button to toggle starfield display in bottom right menu
- new Help topics UI in Help menu
- fixed HROT canonical S8 bug again
- FPS button moved and now called "Timing"
- added Details button to bottom right menu to toggle timing details
- Help Topics list auto-updates as Help scrolls
- pattern editor now updates population
- faster HROT/LTL performance for von Neumann and Circular neighborhoods
Build 284
- Esc button to close error display in bottom right menu
- when specifying a Klein bounded grid without defining the twist edge the default is now vertical (to match Golly)
- new script command [[ HISTORYSTATES <0..> ]] to define the number of history states to use
- default and maximum is 63 for 2 state patterns and 1 for multi-state patterns
- set to 0 to disable cell history drawing
- pattern editor now respects bounded grid
- new Info button in bottom right menu to toggle InfoBar display
- bounded grids >=8192 and <=16384 were causing a crash
- pattern died generation was not working in the PopUp Viewer for the second pattern onwards if not reset
- added aggregate memory usage information to Help information
- toolTips can now be two lines long and will try to split at a space, comma or slash
- when PopUp windows resize the right edge position will stay fixed
- bounded grid types that do not support twists were not being reported as errors when twists were specified
- PopUp viewer was not having grid size reset after MAXGRIDSIZE specified
- default grid size reduced to 512x512 to save memory for pages with multiple Viewers
- MAXGRIDSIZE argument is now from 9 (2^9 = 512) to 14 (2^14 is 16384)
- memory for population graph is not allocated if NOGRAPH is specified or if THUMBLAUNCH is specified without GRAPH
- only allocate memory for Stars on first use
- pattern editor automatically switches temporarily to pan mode while ZOOM < 1
- HROT patterns were defaulting S8 to on
- canonical HROT patterns were not validating counts against von Neumann or Circular neighborhoods
Build 283
- added new rule aliases
- better error reporting when invalid characters in RLE
- Generations rules were not displaying Life ended message
- pattern edit mode toggle available on hotkey F1
- only works for 2-state patterns
Build 282
- survival counts in canonical HROT form were off by 1
- improved rule validation for non-totalistic rules
Build 281
- moved Shrink button from top left to bottom right
- added support for C in generations postfix e.g. B3/S23/C3
- cell under mouse display now correctly ignores bounded grid border cells
Build 280
- rule names now support slash after generations prefix and G in generations postfix
- prefix: G3/B3/S23
- postfix: B3/S23/G3 or MAPFEABCD/G3
- multi-state LtL and HROT patterns now display history
Build 279
- LABELTRACK positions are now relative to T1 if defined by LABELT
Build 278
- close button in bottom right menu is available in PopUp viewers when help or errors are displayed
- fps toggle in bottom right menu is available when help or errors are displayed
- increased maximum LABELSIZE to 128
- bounded grid border colour no longer overwrites state colour for 256 state patterns
- hotkey shift and l is now toggle labels
- hotkey shift and p is toggle loop mode
- MAXGRIDSIZE was only allowing patterns to grow to the specified size rather than start at the specified size
- new script command [[ LABELTRACK DX DY|FIXED ]]
- sets movement vector for subsequent label definitions
- [[ LABELTRACK FIXED ]] turns off movement for subsequent label definitions
Build 277
- multi-state Generations patterns now display history
- fixed rare incorrect B0 error report when decoding multi-state patterns
- more consistent timing for animation
Build 276
- allow Wolfram W0 rule
- allow range 1 HROT rules
- fixed an issue with decoding hex format HROT rules
- fixed an issue with canonical form of HROT rules
- Label coordinates are now relative to pattern coordinates and respect CXRLE Pos
- LABELT fading was going one step too far
Build 275
- fixed layer rendering for 2 state generations, LtL and HROT rules
Build 274
- fixed an issue with 2 state LtL HROT rules and Plane
Build 273
- 2 state LtL and HROT rules now use standard Themes
Build 272
- graph close button was not updating graph toggle button
- HROT rules now support von Neumann and Circular neighbourhoods
- new optional neighbourhood postfix: Rr,Cc,Slist,Blist(,Nn)
- 2 state Generations rules now use standard Themes
Build 271
- new script command [[ LABELTARGET X Y D|OFF ]]
- sets the target point and distance for subsequent label definitions
- the viewpoint must be within the distance of the target point for the label to be displayed
- [[ LABELTARGET OFF ]] turns off the target for subsequent label definitions
- new menu button to toggle population graph
Build 270
- labels now use non-integer font point sizes
- labels now work with TRACKBOX
- grid lines now work at all angles
- fixed an issue with custom Themes
Build 269
- updated script command: [[ LABEL X Y ZOOM (FIXED) " ]]
- optional FIXED argument makes the position static when TRACK mode is on
- cell under mouse display was incorrect when TRACK mode is on
- cell under mouse display now works at any ANGLE
Build 268
- labels work with non-zero ANGLE
- new script command [[ LABELANGLE <0..359> (FIXED) ]]
- sets the label angle for subsequent label definitions
- optional keyword FIXED means label will not rotate when camera rotates
Build 267
- new script command [[ MAXGRIDSIZE <10..14> ]]
- specifies the maximum grid size 2^n
- if not specified the grid size starts at 2^10 (1024) and automatically grows as needed up to 2^13 (8192)
- 2^14 (16384) is only available if specified with this command
- Labels now work wth [[ TRACK ]] and [[ TRACKLOOP ]]
- Label shadow is now based on label size
Build 266
- new script command [[ LABELT ]]
- sets a range of generations from to for subsequent labels to be visible
- specifies number of generations to fade label in/out
- use [[ LABELT ALL ]] to specify all generations
Build 265
- fixed canonical HROT rule decoder
- new script command [[ LABEL X Y ZOOM "" ]]
- displays a static label at the given cell position and zoom
- Help information contains label definitions
- new script command [[ LABELALPHA <0.0..1.0> ]]
- sets opacity for following label definitions from 0 (transparent) to 1 (opaque - the default)
- new script command [[ LABELSIZE <4..32> ]]
- sets the label font size for following label definitions (default is 18)
- new script command [[ COLOR LABEL |R G B ]]
- sets the label text colour (default is 240 255 255)
- fixed broken Torus
- fixed LtL and HROT patterns not clearing correctly on right boundary
Build 264
- new canonical HROT rule format:
- R,C,S
,B
- is from 2 to 500
- is from 0 to 255 (and values < 2 are treated as 2)
- is a comma separated list of counts e.g. 2,4,6-11,13
- improved validation for LTL and HROT rules
Build 263
- HROT (higher range outer totalistic) rules are now supported
- LifeViewer now accepts lifelib style rule names:
- generations rules can be specified with "g" prefix rather than "/" postfix
- rbtst is now supported for LtL
- canonical forms remain the original formats
Build 262
- LtL now computes births and deaths
- LtL Moore algorithm speed improvements
Build 261
- mousewheel shouldn't zoom thumbnails
- new script command [[ THUMBZOOM ]] to set the zoom in the thumbnail
- autofit on reset wasn't centering pattern if hex/square display mode had changed
- hex UI control wasn't set correctly on hex pattern load
Build 260
- added support for Larger than Life (LtL) rules
- Moore, von Neumann and Circular neighborhoods
- maximum range of 500 cells
- non-totalistic rules without digits were not being marked as invalid
- LOOP with Waypoints or AutoFit now resets camera on reset
- fixed a potential crash when reading meta settings
- meta "limit" setting default is now false, not true
- displayed XY location was incorrect after grid growth
- canonical form of MAP rules with Generations now adds the generations
- UI now has a button to toggle hex display
- label UI controls under buttons no longer receive clicks
- Help information now shows neighborhood range when greater than 1
Build 259
- script commands copied to the clipboard are now prefixed with RLE comments
- with bounded grids the stats show cell density rather than births and deaths
- fixed population count for bounded grids
Build 258
- better fix for Themes without history
- hotkey "u" toggles NOGUI mode
- will be ignored if [[ NOGUI ]] defined
- hotkey "k" copies the current position to the clipboard as script commands
- [[ X 10 Y -5 ZOOM 3 ]]
- shift and hotkey "k" copies the current position and the view to the clipboard as script commands
- [[ X 5 Y 13 ZOOM 2.33 ]]
- [[ THEME 3 WIDTH 640 HEIGHT 400 ]]
Build 257
- Themes without history were causing rendering issues
- improved elapsed time calculation for multi-generation steps
- manual step forward for multiple generations no longer bails out early due to time
Build 256
- added colour sets for JvN29, Hutton32 and Nobili32
- initial zoom and fit zoom (but not autofit) will snap to integer if zoom is within 1% of an integer
Build 255
- custom colours now work with Generations rules
Build 254
- gps control was incorrectly showing 10.0 for 10
- added colour names to help information
- aligned R G B values in help information
- hotkey shift and Page Up moves to previous help topic
- hotkey shift and Page Down moves to next help topic
- hotkey control and "r" now resets the pattern (like Golly) rather than refreshing the browser
- fixed an issue with Waypoint playback that was causing stuttering
Build 253
- waypoints now work with step back
- fixed a crash when invalid patterns have a bounded grid specification
- LOOP no longer resets camera
- fit zoom UI control is now disabled when AutoFit enabled
Build 252
- fixed a display flicker with PAUSE 0
Build 251
- [[ PAUSE ]] script command can now take 0 as an argument for instant camera relocation
- removed bounded grid postfix from rule name display
Build 250
- hex neighbourhood MAP rules were not working correctly
- playback speeds < 60gps are much more accurate
- gps UI control now shows steps per second and values less than 10 show one decimal place
Build 249
- patterns larger than bounded grids are now correctly clipped to top left
Build 248
- corrected coordinate display
Build 247
- popup Viewer should not respect meta width limit
Build 246
- fixed error when STOP or LOOP defined before first waypoint
Build 245
- validation error with THUMBNAIL
Build 244
- added [[ STARS OFF ]] script command
- added [[ THUMBNAIL OFF ]] and [[ THUMBLAUNCH OFF ]] script commands
- both stars and grid display can be defined per POI
- added [[ AUTOFIT OFF ]] and [[ HISTORYFIT OFF ]] script commands
- fixed TRACKLOOP that had stopped looping
- fixed pattern position in bounded box when specified pattern size is not actual size
- LOOP and STOP definitions not at POIs change the initial settings
- pattern actual size vs specified size shown in Help information
Build 243
- added [[ AUTOSTART OFF ]] and [[ GRID OFF ]] script commands
Build 242
- added [[ POPUPWIDTH ]] and [[ POPUPHEIGHT ]] script commands
Build 241
- RLE patterns without 'rule =' now default to Conway's Life
- allowed click to work on Viewers that are not fully on the window
- maximum [[ WIDTH ]] and [[ HEIGHT ]] increased to 2048
Build 240
- mouse was behaving badly
Build 239
- previous build broke LifeHistory states 2 and 6
Build 238
- help information now marks current POI with a *
- added [[ SUPPRESS ]] which suppresses overwrite error message for duplicate definitions once
- [[ WIDTH ]] and [[ HEIGHT ]] are now checked for duplicate definitions
Build 237
- POI definitions were always inheriting X, Y, ZOOM and ANGLE
- [[ POI INITIAL ]] was not making the default POI the current POI (for next and previous POI hotkeys)
- [[ POI INITIAL ]] was not setting ANGLE or STEP
Build 236
- further enhancements to POI capability:
- you can now specify a THEME at a POI
- if none specified then the current THEME is not changed
- you can specify DEPTH and LAYERS at a POI
- you can specify STOP and LOOP generation at a POI
- [[ POIT ]] will start the POI at the defined generation
- added parameter value [[ INITIAL ]]
- [[ POI INITIAL ]] makes the defined POI current on pattern load
- [[ ALL INITIAL ]] specifies that all values for the current POI are copied from the initial camera
- [[ X|Y|Z|ZOOM|ANGLE|LAYERS|DEPTH|GPS|STEP|THEME|LOOP|STOP INITIAL ]] copy the defined value for the current POI from its initial value
- STOP and LOOP can now take the parameter OFF to disable them (useful for POI definitions)
- non-totalistic rules with repeated neighbour counts were decoded incorrectly
- POITRANS speeds up to 200 are now valid
- MAP rules now allow base64 padding
- hotkey shift and "c" now cycles backwards through colour themes
- hotkey alt and "c" selects the default theme
- panning with the cursor keys is faster when zoomed out
- hotkey shift and "l" will toggle LOOP mode if defined
- LOOP was performing a camera reset when LOOP enabled after the LOOP generation
- Life 1.05 format patterns now support all rules including bounded grids
- Waypoint error messages were showing incorrect sign when overwriting X or Y camera positions
- if there were more script errors than could fit on the viewer then the last error could not be scrolled to
- bounded grids now work correctly with CXRLE POS
Build 235
- whitespace at the beginning of lines is now removed before copying patterns to clipboard (to be nice to Golly)
- rules in the format SnnBnn were being decoded with S and B transposed
- error could be generated about XOFFSET and YOFFSET when they weren't specified
- updated event handling for UI to handle spurious mouseleave events posted when mouseup and mousedown both happen between updates
- enhanced POI (point of interest) capability:
- there are new script commands that allow you specify actions when switching to a POI
- [[ POIRESET ]] will reset playback to T=0
- [[ POIPLAY ]] will start playback (if stopped)
- [[ POISTOP ]] will stop playback (if playing)
- if neither [[ POIPLAY ]] or [[ POISTOP ]] are specified then playback status is unaffected
- [[ POITRANS 0..60 ]] specifies transition speed
- 0 means instantaneous transition
- if not specified then the default is 12
- hotkeys alt-1 to alt-9 will switch to respective POIs (if specified)
- STOP and LOOP UI indicators tooltip now shows generation
Build 234
- added support for Hex and von Neumann neighbourhoods with MAP rules
- LifeHistory patterns were not respecting Themes at generation 0
- [[ NOSOURCE ]] now also hides the "CODE: SELECT ALL" line on the conwaylife.com forums
- copy pattern source (hotkey "c") was not working correctly in the standalone viewer
Build 233
- the RLE reader could skip rule definition if previous line was just a # character
- bounded grids are now checked to make sure they fit
- fixed MAP rules so final character is canonical
- help information now shows MAP rules on multiple lines
Build 232
- improved compatibility of copy pattern source
- renamed [[ NORLE ]] to [[ NOCOPY ]] and the link from "RLE" to "Copy"
- [[ NOCOPY ]] will also disable hotkey control and "c"
- added [[ NOSOURCE ]] which hides the pattern source textbox
Build 231
- added [[ NORLE ]] which disables the "RLE" link when you mouse over a [[ NOGUI ]] image
- hotkey control and "c" will copy pattern source to clipboard
Build 230
- when you mouse over a [[ NOGUI ]] viewer an RLE link appears which when clicked will copy the displayed pattern's RLE into the Clipboard
- [[ NOGUI ]] minimum width and height now 64
- [[ NOGUI ]] silently disables [[ GRAPH ]], [[ THUMB ]], [[ THUMBLAUNCH ]], [[ SHOWTIMING ]], [[ SHOWGENSTATS ]] and [[ SHOWINFOBAR ]] if specified
- viewers that have [[ NOGUI ]] specified with script errors will not enforce [[ NOGUI ]] so the script errors can be seen
Build 229
- added [[ NOGUI ]] to disable menus and hotkeys
- also reduces [[ WIDTH ]] and [[ HEIGHT ]] minimum limit to 16
- silently disables [[ AUTOSTART ]] if specified
- screenshots can now be generated inline in an img tag (rather than in a separate window)
Build 228
- variable substitution can now be used in waypoint messages
- #B the LifeViewer build number
- #N the pattern name (if defined)
- #O the pattern originator (if defined)
- #R the pattern rule name
- #A the pattern rule alias name
- #T the program title ("LifeViewer")
- ## the # symbol
- added [[ COLOR ERROR R G B ]] to set colour for error messages
- rule decoder was failing on totalistic rules with no slash and only one of B or S
- fixed a bug with Torus bounded grids with Y shift
Build 227
- Generations does not support B0 rules
- status bar errors are now drawn in red
- generation statistics tooltips for alive, births and deaths shows full value (rather than abbreviated, e.g. 102302 vs 102K)
Build 226
- fixed an issue with canonical representation of non-totalistic rules
Build 225
- statistics generation was not being reset when new pattern loaded in existing viewer
- added script command [[ NOGRAPH ]] which disables graph
- slight performance increase when not tracking population data
Build 224
- AUTOSTART no longer runs patterns with illegal rules
- better error reporting for MAP rules
Build 223
- graphs now display properly in thumbnail mode
- fit zoom and thumbnail mode now work together
- graph colors were incorrect on some browsers
- fixed an issue with MAP rules and bounded grids
Build 222
- fixed an issue with the allocator during startup
Build 221
- tooltips in multi-item controls now work after item clicked
Build 220
- added ability to customize graph colors:
- [[ COLOR GRAPHBG R G B ]] to set background color
- [[ COLOR GRAPHAXIS R G B ]] to set axis color
- [[ COLOR GRAPHALIVE R G B ]] to set alive color
- [[ COLOR GRAPHBIRTH R G B ]] to set birth color
- [[ COLOR GRAPHDEATH R G B ]] to set death color
- added graph colors to help information
- fixed an issue when just COLOR BACKGROUND and COLOR ALIVE were defined which caused an invalid COLOR DEADRAMP
Build 219
- hotkey shift and "o" now opens population graph snapshot in separate window
- graph x axis limit was wrong for generations less than the graph width
Build 218
- new graph script commands:
- [[ GRAPH ]] enables population graph display on pattern load
- [[ GRAPHOPACITY <0.0..1.0> ]] set graph background opacity
- [[ GRAPHPOINTS ]] draw the graph with points rather than lines
- graph data added to help information
- graph y axis label now abbreviates automatically when viewer height is small
- fixed graph scale issue if first generation deaths or births was greater than population
- added "Just Friends" to the non-totalistic aliases
Build 217
- hotkey "y" now toggles a graph display of population over time
- hotkey shift and "y" to toggle graph lines or points
- hotkey "7" to decrease and hotkey "9" to increase graph opacity
Build 216
- patterns were not correctly centered when bounded grid had a zero dimension
- Faders and Sticks aliases were incorrect
- native support for MAP rules (2 state and Generations)
- deprecated [[ FILL ]], [[ MAP ]] and [[ MAPODD ]] script commmands
- added non-totalistic rule B0 support
Build 215
- [[ TRACK ]], [[ TRACKBOX ]] and [[ TRACKLOOP ]] now scroll more smoothly at low GPS
- changed timing display to show load%
- error display wasn't hiding UI controls correctly
- added a close button to the navigation menu
- accurate "Life ended at" generation when using STEP > 1
- new script command [[ STATE1FIT ]] that forces autofit only to use state 1
- hotkey shift and "s" to toggle
Build 214
- [[ HISTORYFIT ]] would not work correctly until pattern reset
- added another non-totalistic alias
Build 213
- resizing snapshots could leave unused buffers not resized
- numeric keypad now works as hotkeys
- changed the behaviour of speed up (hotkey "=" or num "+") and speed down (hotkey "-" or num "-") so it flows from GPS to STEP
- hotkey "0" and num "0" now reset speed and gps
- hotkey "5" now resets angle
- all COLOR recipients can now use named colours
- hex patterns now support bounded grids
Build 212
- CXRLE Pos now works with [R]History
- UI controls now step forward and back one generation
- hotkey "Space" and "b" now step forward and back one generation
- hotkey "Tab" and Shift "Tab" now step forward and back STEP generations
Build 211
- non-totalistic rules now use correct canonical form
- tooltips are now in boxes with shadows
- at some zooms the right hand grid line was not being drawn
Build 210
- added new variable to [[ TITLE ]] string
- #A the pattern rule alias name
- number of times [[ FILL ]] used is displayed in help information
- fixed TRACKBOX so N is top and S is bottom
- fixed TRACKBOX error so it doesn't need to wrap
Build 209
- new script command [[ RANDOMSEED ]] to define the random seed
- used by the [[ MAP ]] and [[ FILL ]] script commands
- if not specified then a seed based on the system time is used
- random seed is displayed in help information
- starfield uses its own random number stream
- Track mode details were sometimes incorrect in help information
- rule name is now canonical
- added tooltip for rule name and rule alias (if defined)
- rule alias is shown in help information if defined
- rule names are shown as aliases if an alias exists for the rule
- added tooltips for population statistics, elapsed time, coordinate state value, and the information bar
Build 208
- script errors are now displayed on the thumbnail (rather than just the error header)
- Viewers with a height too small to display the navigation menu were not correctly respositioning the adjacent UI controls
- bounded grids that wrap (Torus, Klein, Sphere, Cross-Surface) failed when grid edges were on tile boundaries
- Klein bottles without a twist specification now default to horizontal twist
- CXRLE Gen and Pos only displayed in help information if defined
- shift and hotkey "g" only toggles relative generation display if CXRLE Gen defined
- added support for #CXRLE Pos
Build 207
- timer was not being properly reset on the standalone viewer when a second pattern loaded
- viewer height and width were not being properly constrained when limit no in force
Build 206
- full zoom range is available again in Track mode
- improved elapsed time display
- added 19 new rule aliases
- removed a brief glitch on the zoom UI control when Track mode switched on using TRACK button
- grid UI button now reflects hex/square mode
- improved when tooltips appear
Build 205
- zoom to mouse position now works with track mode
- fixed issue with pausing playback and slow GPS tracking
- integer zoom now works with track mode
Build 204
- improved formatting of timing information
- shift and hotkey "t" toggles extended timing information
Build 203
- switching AutoFit on when playback paused would not AutoFit until playback resumed
- TRACK, TRACKLOOP and TRACKBOX now use dynamic origin rather than AutoFit
- all controls are available
- text messages defined in scripts now appear in thumbnail mode
- "Expand" and "Launch" messages are now vertically centered
- script error indication is shown in thumbnail mode
- first Reset no longer resets camera, use hotkey "v" to do so
- you can now toggle TRACK/Waypoints and LOOP by clicking the UI indicators
- if both are defined then they toggle together
- you can now use [[ Z ]] as an alias for [[ ZOOM ]]
- step back no longer disables LOOP if defined
- help hides population statistics overlay and navigation menu
- added Shrink button to navigation menu which shrinks the viewer back to the thumbnail
- shift and hotkey "x" toggles major grid lines (if not disabled with GRIDMAJOR 0)
- grid lines are now more accurate
- drawing grid lines is now about 10% faster
- error is raised if TRACKBOX W is greater than E or S is greater than N
- improved AutoFit and Fit Zoom icons
- added tool tips for UI controls
- improved notification when STOP point reached
- stars and coordinate display were using angle in Hex display mode (which doesn't allow rotation)
- coordinates label now disappears if coordinates aren't displayed and generation statistics are off
- [[ NOREPORT ]] now also disables STOP message
- new "FPS" button in navigation menu to toggle timing display
- timing display now positioned correctly in thumbnail mode
Build 202
- Generations rules were failing to draw some decay states at T=0
Build 201
- the vertical bounding box calculation was incorrect for AutoFit
Build 200
- fixed an issue with Fit Zoom in THUMBNAIL mode
- fixed an issue with Waypoints and AutoFit in THUMBNAIL mode
Build 199
- when playback loops only the camera position, zoom and angle are reset
- further layout improvements to the information bar
- Reset and STEP now work better together
Build 198
- changed TRACKBOX parameter order to E S W N
- improved layout on information bar
- new AutoFit engine
- now has four modes
- Regular (uses live cells)
- TRACK X Y (horizontal and vertical speeds in cells/generation)
- TRACKLOOP P X Y (loop period, horizontal and vertical speeds in cells/generation)
- TRACKBOX E S W N (east, south, west and north box edge speeds in cells/generation)
- additionally HISTORYFIT can be used to modify each mode to include cells that died
- when Paused all controls are enabled
- first Reset disables AutoFit, second Reset enables AutoFit if defined
Build 197
- shift and hotkey "i" now toggles display of the information bar which displays the camera X, Y, ANGLE and the TRACKBOX speeds
- new script command [[ SHOWINFOBAR ]] which turns the information bar on at pattern load
- ensure navigation menu appears above population statistics
- first Reset now also resets camera
- TRACKBOX mode no longer disables STEP and GPS controls
- angle, layers and depth hotkeys were not disabled when corresponding UI controls were disabled
Build 196
- fixed an edge case where the grid could grow too late based on the increase in maximum STEP size
- numeric values in scripts can now be specified as fractions [[ DEPTH 2/3 ]]
- division by zero is treated as zero
- inverted X and Y offsets
- hotkey "w" will now toggle LOOP mode when no waypoints defined
- added UI indicators for AUTOSTART, LOOP, TRACK and STOP
- don't show "Life ended at generation" notification if LOOP defined and enabled
- reduced the font size of the generation statistics, rule, elapsed time and mouse coordinates
- Shift and hotkey "r" will reset all viewers
- new script command [[ HISTORYFIT ]] that changes AUTOFIT so it uses cells that have died as well as live cells to set the camera position
- Shift and hotkey "h" will toggle HISTORYFIT mode
- HISTORYFIT just defines the AUTOFIT mode, you still need to switch AUTOFIT on
- added AUTOFIT status to help information
- close button is now larger on standalone viewer
- added bounding box speed (cells/generation) N, E, S and W to help information
- new script command TRACKBOX N E S W which makes camera track the bounding box starting at the initial pattern position by applying N E S W as speeds in cells/generation to the North, East, South and West edges
- pause no longer disables LOOP if no Waypoints are specified
Build 195
- new script command [[ TRACK N X Y ]] makes tracking spaceships with the camera easier
- N is the period and X and Y define the offset in cells at the period generation
- fixed Reset behaviour with LOOP only and no Pause
- fixed flicker while looping
- Reset notification now also shows whether AutoStart was switched On or Off
Build 194
- fixed Reset behaviour with any combination of LOOP and Waypoints so that first Reset always gives manual control and second is full reset
- Waypoint playback at < 60 GPS was not spending enough time at T=0
Build 193
- improved title bar styling
- [[ TITLE ]] string is now correctly clipped to the title bar
- new script command [[ NOREPORT ]] that disables the "Life ended at generation" notification
Build 192
- title bar styling for LifeWiki
- rle patterns beginning with "o" were being treated as Cells format and failing to decode
- patterns with Waypoints defined and no theme were defaulting to the wrong theme
- patterns with Waypoints defined were ignoring initial ZOOM
Build 191
- enable standalone viewer to work with LifeWiki
- standalone viewer should ignore WIDTH and HEIGHT validation since they are not used
- first Reset no longer enables LOOP if defined
- [[ THUMBLAUNCH ]] script command also enables [[ THUMBNAIL ]] mode (no need to use both)
Build 190
- added [[ THUMBSIZE ]] script command to define thumbnail divisor (2, 3 or 4)
- when a thumbnail is expanded briefly display hotkey to shrink
- saving (hotkey "v") and restoring (shift and hotkey "v") camera position now works with thumbnail view
- default grid line colours are based on brightness of background colour
- added [[ THUMBLAUNCH ]] script command which changes thumbnail behaviour so when clicked on launches the standalone viewer
Build 189
- hotkey "Esc" will close the standalone viewer
- standalone viewer grabs focus when open
- added support for #CXRLE Gen
- generations >= 1000,000,000 are shown as "1B+" in the UI
- shift and hotkey "g" toggles generation display between absolute generation and offset from start (these are the same unless #CXRLE Gen is defined and non-zero)
- fixed an issue with Generations algorithm when only decaying cells remain
Build 188
- fixed a visual glitch caused by a previous optimization
- [[ TITLE ]] string was ignoring text after last variable substitution
- & symbols in script strings were being converted to html friendly versions
- snapshots were not working with patterns containing no live cells
- Wolfram rule number must be even
- added B0 emulation support for totalistic rules with Hex or Von Neumann neighbourhoods
- when all cells died the STEP size was ignored
- if the STEP size is too large to allow frequent update then it will by dynamically reduced to keep the UI responsive
- initial fix for tags embedded in tags on forum
Build 187
- von Neumann neighbourhoods are now supported (e.g. B12/S1V)
- state 1 of Generations patterns with 2 states were being drawn in black
- neighbourhood is now displayed in help information
- display mode (hex or square) is now displayed in help information
- you can now specify just one dimension for bounded grids and it is used for both width and height
- shift and hotkey "/" now sets display to pattern default (hex or square)
- shift and hotkey "1" zooms to the nearest integer zoom
- added support for Wolfram 1D rules
- bounded grids with an odd height were being drawn one line off
Build 186
- points of interest would get lost if mode switched between Hex and Square
- when waypoints are defined the reset state should use the first waypoint theme
- new script commands [[ LINEAR ALL|X|Y|ZOOM ]] and [[ BEZIER ALL|X|Y|ZOOM ]] that set the camera mode for X, Y and ZOOM or ALL elements at once
- the default is bezier motion is used for camera transitions
Build 185
- added GlideLife to the aliases
- aliases in help information are now grouped by rule family
- two of the Generations aliases were incorrect
- improved rule error checking, pattern state validation and error messages
- TITLE string can contain new variable:
- #T the program title (LifeViewer)
Build 184
- new script command [[ SQUAREDISPLAY ]] to force square display (for unknown rules that are autodetected as Hex)
- increased maximum STEP to 50
- increased step back generations to 2500
- left column of bounded box was sometimes not drawing correctly
- improved the "Auto", "Fit" and "Help" buttons
Build 183
- state display was incorrect for Generations rules
- Generations decay states were not counted in bounding box
- Generations rule patterns with scripts were marked as VIEWONLY
- angle UI slider should not display in Hex mode
- TITLE string can contain variables
- #B the LifeViewer build number
- #N the pattern name (if defined)
- #O the pattern originator (if defined)
- #R the pattern rule name
- ## the # symbol
- performance improvements for next generation calculations and colour updates
Build 182
- added Generations aliases
- bottom line error messages were not being cleared in the standalone viewer
Build 181
- make patterns that are larger than their bounded grids invalid
- bounded grid is not valid for hex rules
- bottom line of LifeViewer window now displays "VIEWONLY" or reason why a pattern is not exectuable or valid
- [R]History is not valid with Generations rules
Build 180
- help information now includes pattern name and originator if specified in the RLE (#N and #O)
- added support for Generations rules (including Moore and Hex neighbourhoods and bounded grids)
- generation display now shows decimal places for millions
- RLE patterns without ! were missing last row
Build 179
- added support for bounded grids
- Plane
- Tube/Torus
- Cross-surface
- Klein-bottle
- Sphere
- tile counts were only updated every even generation in help information
Build 178
- new script command [[ HEXDISPLAY ]] to switch on hex display (used for unspported rule patterns you want to show as hex)
- x coordinate display for hex rules now works correctly
- better whitespace handling for rule decoding
Build 177
- patterns of any size can now be deleted in one go when they hit the boundary
- added support for Alan Hensel's non-totalistic rule format
- added support for Mark Niemiec's x, y and z states
- added support for hex neighbourhoods
- hotkey "/" will toggle hex display (note this does not change the rule)
- added alias list to help information
- moving the mouse within a Viewer without focus will also trigger the "click to control" message
- previously this was only triggered when moving the mouse onto the Viewer
Build 176
- state value in coordinate display now works with non-executable patterns
- multiple [[ LOOP ]] or [[ STOP ]] script commands are now flagged as errors
- added ability to define generation transition tables
- [[ MAP