Re: [Bluemusic-users] blue 2.4.0

[Steven Yi <ste...@gm...>]

One more thing to report, I will be recording a screencast of new
features tonight and will release tomorrow.  Thanks!

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Steven Yi <ste...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm happy to announce a new release of blue is now available at:
>
> http://blue.kunstmusik.com
>
> The main feature of this release is a new Clojure SoundObject.
> Clojure (http://clojure.org/) is a Lisp language built upon the Java
> Virtual Machine.  The Clojure interpreter has been embedded into blue
> so projects using Clojure are portable across all platforms and blue
> installations without requiring any other things installed.  The
> SoundObject editor uses syntax highlighting and parentheses matching.
>
> The other new things include a new ScoreNavigator Dialog
> implementation (better performance), and new examples of using
> AthenaCL within Blue via External SoundObjects.  (Many thanks to Menno
> Knevel for his contributions and working very patiently with me on bug
> reports!)
>
> There are currently two more bugs I am trying to work through in the
> bug tracker, and once those are complete I will be releasing a 2.4.1
> bugfix release.  One other note, I have not yet had time to put a REPL
> in for Clojure, but this is high on my list of things to do.  I am
> also continuing work on a new modulation system for BlueSynthBuilder
> instruments, as well as AudioLayers, to come in the next few major
> releases.
>
> Thanks!
> steven
>
>
>>Notes for 2.4.0<
> [released 2013.02.05]
>
> NEW
>
> * ClojureObject - SoundObject that uses Clojure (http://www.clojure.org) code
>   for generating notes
>
>   * Clojure 1.4.0 is embedded with blue so that user does not have to install
>     Clojure themselves, as well as guarantees code to run on every platform
>
>   * Editor has Syntax Highlighting and Parentheses/brace matching
>
>   * Script menu option added to Reinitialize Clojure engine
>
>   * clojureSoundObject.blue added to blue/examples/soundObject
>
>   * clojure-piano-phase.blue added to blue/examples/general; this is a
>     translation of reich.cm from Common Music 2.10.0 by Heinrich Taube that
>     demonstrates phase technique
>
> * RFE #137 - added temp file check when opening projects that searches for
>   leftover tempCsd*.csd files from previous blue sessions (usually only happens
>   if blue/csound has crashed).  Offers to delete the temp files after opening,
>   also checks if another project in the same folder is currently open and skips
>   temp file check
>
> * Added three examples of using AthenaCL with Blue to blue/examples/soundObjects
>   folder (external_AthenaCL1.blue, etc.); contributed by Menno Knevel
>
> NEW/FIX
>
> * Bug #80/81: Optimized ScoreNavigatorView: introduced new paintNavigatorView
>   to LayerGroupPanels so that they could paint a simplified view for the
>   Score Navigator; fixes broken painting and improves issues with time pointer
>   rendering triggering frequent paints in the navigator view
>
> FIX
>
> * code completion for BSB Widgets would replace all code after cursor location
>   or up until ")" if found, fixed to behave as Csound ORC completion does