Life tag testing

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Build 1137 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• fixed an issue with tokenizing custom rule names containing commas

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Build 1138 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• disable Rand All button for RuleTable rules

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Build 1139 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• fix paste mode OR for [R]Investigator

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Build 1140 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• fix disappearing notifications that are being cleared from restarting disappear phase

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Build 1141 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• fixed fps overlapping box at fps >= 100
• fixed Advance Outside clearing issue

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Build 1142 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• initial work on Paste from system clipboard

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Build 1143 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• new script command [[ AUTOIDENTIFY ]] will automatically Identify pattern on load
• Paste from system clipboard will now automatically convert [R]Super and [R]History to [R]Standard

Fixes in this build:

• fixed Random Pattern not correctly respecting [[ RANDWIDTH ]] and [[ RANDHEIGHT ]]

AUTOIDENTIFY:

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#C [[ AUTOIDENTIFY ]]
x = 156, y = 75, rule = B3/S23History
146b2o5b2o$146b2o5b2o16$145b2obo3bob2o$145bo2bo3bo2bo$146b3o3b3o3$31b
2o$33bo$18b2o10b2o2bo$18b2o11bo2bo$32bobo$32b2o119b2o$153b2o$32b2o$32b
obo$18b2o11bo2bo10b2o30b2o$18b2o10b2o2bo10b2o30b2o$b2o4b3o23bo$b2o3bo
3bo20b2o$6b2ob2o$7bobo67bo$53bo2bo19bobo66bo2bo$7bobo21b4o22bo17b2ob2o
69bo$6b2ob2o19bo3bo18bo3bo16bobob3o64bo3bo$6bo3bo4b2o17bo19b4o14bob2o
2b2o66b4o$7b3o4b2o14bo2bo38bobo77b2o$16bo135bobo$154bo$86b2o34bo31b2o$
69b2o15bobo7b2o24b2o$51bo3b3o11b2o17bo7b2o23bobo$36b2o12bobo2b5o26b3o$
36b2o12bo3b2o3b2o$51bo2bo3b2o$3o5b3o41b3o3bo$o2b2ob2o2bo16bo58b3o$b3o
3b3o16b2o24b3o3bo10b2o17bo7b2o$2bo5bo17bobo22bo2bo3b2o9b2o15bobo7b2o$
36b2o12bo3b2o3b2o2b2o21b2o$36b2o12bobo2b5o3b2o$51bo3b3o52b2o$111b2o$
92bo17bo$50b2o38bo2bo$b2o5b2o42bo25b2o10b5o$b2o5b2o39b2o2bo10b2o12b2o
10b3ob2o$31bo18bo2bo10b2o25b2obo15bo3bo$30bo2bo4b2o11bobo38b2o15bo5bo
9b2o$17b2o10b5o3b2o12b2o56bo15b2o$17b2o9b2ob3o5bo52b2o15b2o3bo$29bob2o
18b2o38b2obo16b3o$30b2o19bobo24b2o10b3ob2o$50bo2bo10b2o12b2o10b5o16b3o
$30b2o17b2o2bo10b2o24bo2bo15b2o3bo$29bob2o19bo39bo16bo15b2o$17b2o9b2ob
3o16b2o57bo5bo9b2o$17b2o10b5o76bo3bo$30bo2bo$31bo!

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[*]Paste from system clipboard will now automatically convert [R]Super and [R]History to [R]Standard[/list]

Hmm, I ran into a case last week (trying to paste LifeHistory from the system clipboard into a plain-Life pattern) where that would have been useful.

I don't think it's the final best solution, though. I was just trying to do some editing in a LifeHistory stamp collection, and since I had the system clipboard enabled, all the LifeHistory envelope stuff got lost. That's useful information a lot of the time -- if I can't retain it then I can't really work in LifeViewer on that kind of thing.

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Build 1144 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• fixed automatic Paste conversion

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[*]Paste from system clipboard will now automatically convert [R]Super and [R]History to [R]Standard[/list]

Hmm, I ran into a case last week (trying to paste LifeHistory from the system clipboard into a plain-Life pattern) where that would have been useful.

I don't think it's the final best solution, though. I was just trying to do some editing in a LifeHistory stamp collection, and since I had the system clipboard enabled, all the LifeHistory envelope stuff got lost. That's useful information a lot of the time -- if I can't retain it then I can't really work in LifeViewer on that kind of thing.

This was unintentional and has been fixed. Pasting [R]History should work correctly now.

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Build 1145 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• improved automatic Paste conversion when pasting from system clipboard
  • now handles conversions between [R]Standard, [R]History, [R]Super and [R]Investigator

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Build 1146 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• changed Advance Selection so the selection box is static
• added Advance Selection and Advance Outside buttons
• Paste from system clipboard now works with unknown rules

Fixes in this build:

• added error checking when attempting to write to system clipboard

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I've just sent the following note to the three people on the forums who have started using headers like "xrule = B3/S23" in their RLE:

Yes, and in fact you can delete the x & y and replacing rule with xrule while having the entire RLE working...

I'd advise against posting patterns in b-engine's abbreviated form, at least for the moment. The minimal header would be

x=0,y=0,rule={rule}

Golly currently errors out in a hugely ugly way with an "xrule" pattern, and even the new safeopenclip.lua can't figure out what to do. Only LifeViewer is currently tolerant enough to support such a monstrously abbreviated format.

This is actually a big enough problem that I'm going to make a formal request here, about not abbreviating RLE headers to "xrule", at least for the time being. There may be something more showing up on the forums soon.

Part of the point of having a common RLE format for sharing patterns is so that people with different software can easily join in the fun -- copy and paste whatever patterns are posted, and have them Just Work.

I've seen quite a few RLE parsers that rely on at least the "x=" part of the header. Many parsers will decide it's not valid RLE if it doesn't have the x, equals, comma, y, equals. Golly is in this category. Opening an "xrule" pattern in Golly causes a really unpleasant error.

I've done a global search-and-replace on the forums to convert "xrule" patterns to the minimal form above.

I'm really hoping that everyone can see their way to not posting any more patterns with "xrule" abbreviations for the time being -- "xrule" seems to have spread very quickly once it was introduced.

It occurs to me that, now that the global search-and-replace has been done, the simplest way to keep this "xrule" abbreviation from spreading would be to remove support for it from LifeViewer (rather than adding support for it to Golly, which doesn't address the problem of all the other existing parsers that don't support that syntax).

Does that sound like a workable plan, or are there downsides to the idea that I'm not seeing?

EDIT: For people communicating rules via phone, where the main point is to pop up an empty LifeViewer window for a new rule, strictly for exploration purposes (the pattern is usually just !) ... could LifeViewer maybe support the old standard rule-definition syntax for Life 1.05 -- but without the Life 1.05 header being required?

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#R MAPexamplerule
.

or even just

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#R MAPexamplerule

Currently it doesn't look like the #R or #r rule specification is supported, even when the official header is present. But people stopped bothering with the Life 1.05 header for ASCII patterns, quite a long time ago.

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#Life 1.05
#R MAPexamplerule
.

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Build 1147 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• improve RLE header detection (RLE header must have a space or = after x)
• support #R in headerless RLE or Life 1.05 to define rule

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Build 1147 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• improve RLE header detection (RLE header must have a space or = after x)
• support #R in headerless RLE or Life 1.05 to define rule

Looks good! I'm seeing better support for Life 1.05 #R than for headerless RLE #R so far. E.g., I've edited the last two "xrule" posts as examples, and they seem to work fine, but they need a minimal ASCII-format pattern on the next line after the #R line.

LifeViewer build 1147 doesn't do anything if these examples are converted to headerless RLE, or to an #R-only format:

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# You can find this in Request a Rule to be "Tamed" thread
#R B1e2cek3cjkry4jrw5cny6ck7c/S2kn3-aejr4knqty5ejk6e
!
#C [[ RANDOMIZE ]] 

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# You can find this in Request a Rule to be "Tamed" thread
#R B1e2cek3cjkry4jrw5cny6ck7c/S2kn3-aejr4knqty5ejk6e
b!
#C [[ RANDOMIZE ]] 

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#R B012-a5n6aek/S1e2-ak3:T400,400
#C [[ RANDOMIZE ]]

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#R B012-a5n6aek/S1e2-ak3:T400,400

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#R B012-a5n6aek/S1e2-ak3:T400,400
!
#C non-LifeViewer command comments don't work after the exclamation point either

Here's a test case where headerless RLE works:

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#R B012-a5n6aek/S1e2-ak3:T400,400
#C comments here are okay
!

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Build 1148 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• fixes to #R support

[rowett]

Looks good! I'm seeing better support for Life 1.05 #R than for headerless RLE #R so far.

LifeViewer is actually using the RLE decoder since I don't want to promote the use of the obsolete Life 1.05 format.

If LifeViewer sees an RLE header (x = ...) then any following #R lines are ignored (and removed if the pattern is saved).

Example: header line sets the HighLife rule, #R line is ignored. Saving this pattern removes the #R line.

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x = 1, y = 1, rule = HighLife
#R Ignored
!

If LifeViewer does not see an RLE header then the first #R line sets the rule. Subsequent #R lines are ignored. An RLE header line is illegal (and will generate an error). If the pattern is saved the #R line will be replaced by a valid RLE header.

Example: #R line set the HighLife rule. Saving this pattern creates valid RLE header.

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#R HighLife
!

Since this is RLE the last pattern character needs to use the ! character. Comments after this will be processed correctly.

Example: [[ AUTOSTART ]] after pattern.

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#R HighLife
3o!
#C [[ AUTOSTART ]]

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Build 1149 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• improve HTML entity handling

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Build 1150 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• fixed line break handling

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Build 1151 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• fixed Identify with LtL/HROT >2 state patterns

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Build 1152 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• fixed AutoIdentify persisting across viewers

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Build 1153 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• initial work on @ICONS rendering
  • new Icons button to toggle cell icon display (hotkey Alt+I)
  • Sync button is now in Settings>Clipboard>External Sync
  • new script command [[ ICONS ]] switches icon display on
• current limitations
  • only supports camera Angle of 0
  • does not support built-in icon sets (circles, diamonds, hexagons and triangles)

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  #C [[ ICONS AUTOSTART GPS 8 ]]
  x = 74, y = 47, rule = AnimatedPixelArt
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Build 1154 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• added icons for PCA rules

[rowett]

Build 1155 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• clear grid during startup timing measurement

[rowett]

Build 1156 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• Identify now uses offset square grid for hexagonal Cell Period Maps