OSCulator 2.9-rc1

Posted by camille on November 26, 2009

New Features:

  • App: Full Snow Leopard compatibility, 64 bits executable.
  • Wiimote: initial Motion Plus support.
  • SpaceNavigator: Multiple devices supported.
  • Wacom: it is now possible to choose in the application Preferences how the mouse pointer should be locked (or not).
  • OSC router is now much more transparent as it now handles now not only numbers but also all types of data.
  • App: cool new status bar that presents useful notifications to the user.
  • App: it is now possible to control the user interface with gestures : swipe left or right to switch back and forth the Scalings Page, swipe down to show the Parameters Window, swipe up to close it.
  • App: the Notepad enables users to take notes inside the application.

Changes:

  • Wiimote: nunchuk has now 10 bits of precision.
  • Wiimote: bluetooth discovery more grafully handled to avoid kernel based problems.
  • Wiimote: better error handling.
  • Wiimote: more wiimotes types supported.
  • Wiimote: fixed a problem where the wiimotes slot would not be properly remembered.
  • TUIO: fixed a bug related to the interpretation on cursor mode.
  • TUIO: fixed a problem with alive messages being erroneously duplicated.
  • Kyma: added the channel velocity to kyma notes.
  • Kyma: enhanced automatic hot var / osc message matching.
  • Kyma: under some circumstances, Kyma Notes were not released properly resulting in a weird enveloppe ending.
  • HUD: optimized drawing in quick look windows.
  • HUD: quick look windows now show the values of the output min and max that were set in the scalings page.
  • HUD: quick look windows now calibrate the graph’s height to the output min and max values that were set in the scalings page.
  • HUD: when the windows are “kept on top”, this now affects the quick look windows as well.
  • OSC: automatic back mapping of incoming OSC.
  • OSC: When a osc routing has no tokens, don’t route any argument. The previous behavior was to route all the arguments.
  • App: new button in the toolbar to start/pause OSC routing.
  • App: when a preset is changed, quick look windows are also removed/restored.
  • App: sped up application launch.
  • App: lots of small refinements in the applications look & feel.
  • App: event type and value menus now show helpful labels.
  • App: fixed some osc routing editing problems in the parameters window.
  • App: fixed a problem that would happen when opening the license document under snow leopard.
  • App: allow a multiple row selection for the ‘enabled’ checkbox.
  • App: row selection preserved when selecting event type menu.
  • App: document is set to dirty on less occasions.
  • App: fixed a menu refreshing problem when clearing out the event source.
  • App: fixed a bug where event source names would not refresh if they were belonging to an action or a duplicate.
  • App: Command-Shift-A is now “deselect-all”.
  • App: removed all localizations and kept english only.
  • App: columns widths are now properly saved.
  • App: we can now monitor application crashes, but also external tools.
  • App: fixed a problem where a new document would not be opened if a previously opened file was put in the trash.