Version 2024.2.0.132

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Our first release of the year 2024.2

IDE Features

• New project format to improve robustness of upgrading and downgrading projects between versions
• ProjectTool is exposed allowing projects to be upgraded and downgraded between LTS-22 and NOV-32 formats

Runtime Features

• compile time constants - #2743, #2736
• compiler optimisations - #2821, #2804
• dbg changes - #2738, #2707, #2706
• Texture View and Memory View added to debug overlay - #2800
• JSON parse / stringify changes - #2749, #2749
• Room tiledata is now compressed - #2417, #2836
• Websocket changes - #2104, #2109
• Borderless Fullscreen added
• Important: iOS Minimum SDK version increased from 10 to 13 - see the Required SDKs FAQ for more info

Issues Resolved

• 2024.2.0

Misc New Functions

• window_enable_borderless_fullscreen(enable) - With this function you can enable borderless fullscreen mode which uses a borderless window when switching to fullscreen rather than making the game take over exclusive use of the display. Note that this will only take effect on the next switch to fullscreen (so if the game is currently running in fullscreen then nothing will immediately change).
• window_get_borderless_fullscreen() - This function returns whether fullscreen mode uses a borderless window or whether the game takes exclusive control of the display.
• is_mouse_over_debug_overlay() - Returns true if the mouse is over a debug overlay window or gadget, or is being used by the debug sub-systems (i.e. for dragging)
• is_keyboard_used_debug_overlay() - Returns true if the keyboard is being used by the debug overlay system
• vertex_submit_ext(buffer,primitive,texture,offset,number) - You can use this function to submit the contents of a vertex buffer to the graphics pipeline. You supply the buffer index to use, the base primitive type to use (see the constants below), the texture that is to be used, the index of the first vertex to start submitting form and number of vertices to submit. The base primitive type is only used for assigning the order in which the vertexes that you stored in the buffer are drawn and connected, but the actual data used for each of the vertexes will be that which you defined when creating the vertex buffer.
• handle_parse(value_string) - This function will attempt to convert a string into a handle data type, to be used when a handle has been converted to a string and you want to convert it back. Note: No validation is done on the value returned so it is not guaranteed to be valid.

Misc Changed Functions

• dbg_section(name) changed to dbg_section(name,[open])
• dbg_sprite(dbgrefSprite,dbgrefSpriteIndex,[label]) changed to dbg_sprite(dbgrefSprite,dbgrefSpriteIndex,[label],[width],[height])
• dbg_text_input(dbgref,[label]) changed to dbg_text_input(dbgref,[label],[type])
• json_parse(json) changed to json_parse(json,[filter],[inhibit_string_convert])
• json_stringify(val,[prettify]) changed to json_stringify(val,[prettify],[filter])
• choose([...]) changed to choose(val1,...)
• max([...]) changed to max(val0,...)
• mean([...]) changed to mean(val0,...)
• median([...]) changed to median(val0,...)
• min([...]) changed to min(val0,...)
• array_concat(array0,array1,[...]) changed to array_concat(array0,...)
• array_union(array0,array1,[...]) changed to array_union(array0,...)
• array_intersection(array0,array1,[...]) changed to array_intersection(array0,...)

Misc New Constants

• seqtracktype_audioeffect - This is an audio effect parameter track.
• GM_is_sandboxed - compile time constant of whether game is sandboxed or not (true - sandbox is on, false - sandbox is off)