Life tag testing

[rowett]

Ideally maybe there should be two optional numeric values after the default ZOOM for a label. If there's just one, it's MAXZOOM -- but if there are two, they're MINZOOM and MAXZOOM.

Yes this was awkward to use. Even building the test case above it's clear that the MAXZOOM only option is unlikely to be what you want, since you have to do unatural things with the label size.

[rowett]

Build 585 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• display Weighted or Custom neighbourhood grid in Help->Info->Pattern

Fixes in this build:

• fix issue with vertical UI slider

[rowett]

Build 586 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• fixed population count for [R]History rules with state 6 cells

[rowett]

Build 587 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• ~15% performance improvement for LifeSuper algo (Moore)

[rowett]

Build 588 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• fix issues with editing [R]History patterns

[dvgrn]

I just spent some time last night putting together waypoints for a timeline advertising Hunting's LeapLife rule for the OCA Discovery of the Year competition.

The difficulty I ran into was the same one that I've mentioned once before: it's easy to build and check the first several transitions in the timeline, so I was fine up to T=5000 or so. But around T=10000 I ran into some tricky adjustments that needed to be made to catch all the action -- had to try a dozen different sets of waypoints before I got one that worked, and each trial meant re-watching the timeline from the beginning.

I thought maybe there was a decent workaround that I just hadn't tried before -- turning off waypoints with the GUI button, running at x64 to the point I was interested in, and then turning waypoints back on again. But that seems to give me just a gray screen and no action. In the above timeline animation, try running to T ~7500 at x64 with waypoints off, for example, then hitting Play after turning waypoints back on.

... So that's a bug report, I guess. But the previous feature request of turning the T slider-bar display into an actual slider bar would be a huge improvement over this kind of slow workaround, if it can be done!

Would ideally like to be able to drag a slider bar or something to jump directly to the part of the script I want to see, basically as if it was just a normal video.

I'll take a look at this. At a minimum perhaps I can add some "Jump forward 10 seconds" kind of feature.

[rowett]

I just spent some time last night putting together waypoints for a timeline advertising Hunting's LeapLife rule for the OCA Discovery of the Year competition.

Great animation! These get better and better. Lovely to see the vision from 5+ years ago continue to come to fruition!

I thought maybe there was a decent workaround that I just hadn't tried before -- turning off waypoints with the GUI button, running at x64 to the point I was interested in, and then turning waypoints back on again. But that seems to give me just a gray screen and no action. In the above timeline animation, try running to T ~7500 at x64 with waypoints off, for example, then hitting Play after turning waypoints back on.

Actually it is kind of working. If you put the InfoBar up you'll see the coordinates moving, also if you put the T menu up you'll see some weirdness with the current cell location and state. And, as if by magic, when the time gets to about 1:30 it's back in the correct position and continues.

When you switch waypoints back on, LifeViewer realises it's in the wrong place and so freezes playback and sets the camera to glide to the correct location before continuiung playback. Unfortunately it hasn't taken into account that we got here faster than expected and so it's extrapolation of the position to glide from is vastly wrong. This should be a quick fix and then the workaround you are trying should work.

I will look at the bigger solution in due course.

[rowett]

Build 589 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• 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

[rowett]

I thought maybe there was a decent workaround that I just hadn't tried before -- turning off waypoints with the GUI button, running at x64 to the point I was interested in, and then turning waypoints back on again. But that seems to give me just a gray screen and no action. In the above timeline animation, try running to T ~7500 at x64 with waypoints off, for example, then hitting Play after turning waypoints back on.

This should work now - please let me know.

[rowett]

Build 590 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• fix rendering issue for [R]History rules

[rowett]

Build 591 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• fixed issue with HROT Weighted neighborhoods with negative counts

[rowett]

Build 592 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• double digit Weighted neighborhoods were not displaying correctly in Help->Info->Pattern

[rowett]

Build 593 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• improved Graph rendering for smoother scaling

[rowett]

Build 594 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• added shortcut keys to tooltips

Fixes in this build:

• fix snapshot missing last frame of history states
• hide selection size information when Help displayed

[rowett]

Build 595 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• 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

[rowett]

Build 596 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• use case-insensitive match when loading rules from repository

[rowett]

Build 597 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• fix missing highlight on range controls on touch devices

[rowett]

Build 598 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• fix crash with Identify if grid grows

[rowett]

Build 599 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• added a Fast Identify button to Patterns->Settings

Fixes in this build:

• fix Fast Identify mode persisting

[rowett]

Build 600 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• Settings->Display->Hexagons/Triangles button is now Use Rectangles
• added hotkey "Backspace" to Settings Close and Back buttons

Fixes in this build:

• fixed "Einstein" alias
• fixed Hexagonal grid camera positions
• fixed "Life ended at" message when [[ KILLGLIDERS ]] kills all live cells
• fixed population metrics for [[ KILLGLIDERS ]]

[rowett]

Build 601 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• fix Mod calculation for Identify

[rowett]

Build 602 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• Identify now detects Mod transformations where the pattern is identical when flipped in either the X or Y direction as "FlipXorY"

[rowett]

Build 603 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• CUSTOM Theme button was not responding correctly

[rowett]

Build 604 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• fix click or tap occasionally being ignored

[rowett]

Build 605 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• Help topics can now be selected with hotkeys
• hotkey "Backspace" will close a Help topic