I've just released version 509.1317, another maintenance release and probably the last of the year. It fixes a couple of minor issues, and a few webclient problems. If you're looking to experiment with the webclient over your winter break (if you have one), this is a great time to do it.
510 is proceeding. I still have to work out a lot of the syntax logistics for the new group/plane master atom stuff, but in the meantime I've been tying up some of the other features. Regex support is about ready to go in, and I've tested out the new text management routines.
I think the new JSON routines are really going to be helpful, especially for webclient users and SS13 developers. A note on character formats: Since BYOND uses the Windows-1292 character set, json_encode() will convert any character in the 0x80 to 0x9F range to its Unicode equivalent with a \uNNNN escape code; all others above 0x80 get an \xNN escape. This should make the results fairly friendly to work with. The reverse is also true: If one of those characters with a Unicode equivalent is found in a \uNNNN escape, it's converted to the BYOND-friendly form. All other Unicode characters are ignored for now, but that may change in a future update if I ever try to implement something ambitious like UTF-8 support.
This week also saw a minor site update, with some code changes that were overdue. If you see anything broken please let me know, but I think everything's working as it should. This paves the way for me to add in some ad-prepay options so hosts and/or authors can skip ads for their non-Member players. I have that stuff partially done.
Now's a great time to get to work on your winter-themed games, if you haven't yet. Show us what you've got! The next Within BYOND post should be coming on the 23rd if I'm not mistaken, so send screenshots and news Higoten's way and I'm sure he'll be thrilled to include your work.
If you have any snow yet, please send it my way. This green December is depressing. And if you've found a few bucks in the couch, feel free to show your love with a donation or Membership.
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 Dec 18 2015, 3:59 pm
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Dec 18 2015, 4:02 pm
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Today is the first day we've had snow here in central PA. I'll gladly trade or rather for yours, especially the green bit. Our weather is depressingly-gray in the winter.
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Heh, it's going to be 10F tonight in Minneapolis. It's supposed to be 81 here Christmas Day... I hate it, although 10 might be a bit low.
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It's kept me in my house today even though I wanted to leave. Not even that cold, but it came on so suddenly. Wasn't acclimated yet.
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Contemplating if I should work on a Christmas-themed BYOND game or at least sometime. Right now been having an off and on break involving programming of any sort.
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Ter13 wrote:
It's 70 degrees this week in VA. Yep it's so horrible having this warm weather in what used to be a bitter winter, WE DIDN'T LISTEN! | |
This will be a great update, the performance benefits for SS13 which uses UIs made from both strings and json will be great for all the codebases that take advantage of these new improvements!
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My family celebrated Christmas today. There was no snow. There were rednecks happy there was no snow. There was no snow. We used to occasionally tread through slush on Halloween. There was no snow.
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