Please help test v212 of the flash player!

Lightnin

Please help test the new Scratch project player, so we know it will work well when we push it to the old site! If all seems well by Thursday morning, we'll update the old site player with this code.

How to test? That's easy! First make sure that when you view a project page, your flash project player says “v212” on the upper left side. If not, clear your browser's cache or hit ctrl-shift-R a few times until it updates to v212.

1. Try out a bunch of your favorite projects. Look for strange behavior or new problems, and report them here!

2. If you don't find strange behavior, post here to let us know everything looks ok. Please mention how many projects you tested that worked a ok. (That'll help us get a sense of how confident we can be before pushing the new player to the old website production.)

This kind of help from the community frees us up to focus on getting 2.0 out the door. So thanks very much in advance!

Last edited by Lightnin (Jan. 15, 2013 11:54:46)

nXIII

Lightnin
~~Please help test the new player Scratch project player, so we know it will work well when we push it to the old site!~~

~~You said “player” twice in the first sentence.~~

Last edited by nXIII (Jan. 16, 2013 19:34:47)

veggieman001

What're the changes? (I know I could just go and decompile and compare, but that takes way too much work

)

Wes64

veggieman001
What're the changes? (I know I could just go and decompile and compare, but that takes way too much work )

i agree. i think it's important to say what changes have been made because otherwise i might not know what exactly to look for

nXIII

Here's a reasonably complete changelist:

Added escape keyboard shortcut for presentation mode
Added undo for sound and vector editing
Added reverting to original project (project before autosave)
Added some MediaLib stuff to the Shift-Edit menu
Added error checking for external interface calls
Fixed the un-fillable-backdrop bug
Fixed the blank-costume-pane bug
Added eraser tool for vector editing
Added grow/shrink tools for vector editing
Changed the vector text editor a bit and made it accessible by double-clicking when selecting
Added sprite count in the media gallery
Fixed a media gallery bug

EDIT: Note, this is from the diff between 207 and 212—I didn't have anything more recent than 207; did I miss a version?

Last edited by nXIII (Jan. 14, 2013 19:30:11)

Lightnin

veggieman001
What're the changes? (I know I could just go and decompile and compare, but that takes way too much work )

Ah, for that I need to try to get John to update his tracker more often.

I'll bug him about that.

nXIII - thanks for posting that! Your sketch of changes is pretty good.

Keep in mind, we're only testing the performance of the player - most changes to the editor shouldn't affect that.
(Of course sometimes editor changes do introduce player bugs, but that's pretty rare.) So once we do get the tracker updated to reflect changes, remember that you don't need to directly test changes to the editor (at least not for purposes of Q/A testing the update to the player on the old site.) Just make sure project playback seems to be working.

johnm

I think NXIII gave a pretty complete summary (thank you!) but here's my change log. Not much here that should affect the player since we're trying to get editor in shape for the public beta…

v209
- bug: sprites dropped on stage while costumes tab open jump back to their original position
- internal support for new mediaLibrary format
v211
- move undo/redo arrows into the paint and sound editors (and resize name field)
- selecting tool in top bar should gray out tools in paint editor
- centralize the cursor functionality and fall back to software cursors on linux
- gray out or hide sound editor undo/redo buttons when no sounds
- integrate paint editor changes from Shane
- fixed: right-click stopped working in editor due to JS changes
- support for verifying the media library JSON
- make escape key exit from full screen mode
- fixed: http://mv.ezproxy.com.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/issues/330 (paint editor failed to load bitmap costumes)
- escape key should deselect tools in paint editor
v212
- bug: costume pane disappeared
v213
- paint editor changes
- use bounding box for costume dimesions in Costumes/Backgrounds tab
- make costume size update when painting
- fix sprite import from local file
- make costume/backdrop/sound name fields wider
- start of undo support (no UI yet)

scimonster

johnm
I think NXIII gave a pretty complete summary (thank you!) but here's my change log. Not much here that should affect the player since we're trying to get editor in shape for the public beta…

v209
- bug: sprites dropped on stage while costumes tab open jump back to their original position
- internal support for new mediaLibrary format
v211
- move undo/redo arrows into the paint and sound editors (and resize name field)
- selecting tool in top bar should gray out tools in paint editor
- centralize the cursor functionality and fall back to software cursors on linux
- gray out or hide sound editor undo/redo buttons when no sounds
- integrate paint editor changes from Shane
- fixed: right-click stopped working in editor due to JS changes
- support for verifying the media library JSON
- make escape key exit from full screen mode
- fixed: http://mv.ezproxy.com.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/issues/330 (paint editor failed to load bitmap costumes)
- escape key should deselect tools in paint editor
v212
- bug: costume pane disappeared
v213
- paint editor changes
- use bounding box for costume dimesions in Costumes/Backgrounds tab
- make costume size update when painting
- fix sprite import from local file
- make costume/backdrop/sound name fields wider
- start of undo support (no UI yet)

So should the current be 212 or 213?

veggieman001

scimonster
johnm
I think NXIII gave a pretty complete summary (thank you!) but here's my change log. Not much here that should affect the player since we're trying to get editor in shape for the public beta…

v209
- bug: sprites dropped on stage while costumes tab open jump back to their original position
- internal support for new mediaLibrary format
v211
- move undo/redo arrows into the paint and sound editors (and resize name field)
- selecting tool in top bar should gray out tools in paint editor
- centralize the cursor functionality and fall back to software cursors on linux
- gray out or hide sound editor undo/redo buttons when no sounds
- integrate paint editor changes from Shane
- fixed: right-click stopped working in editor due to JS changes
- support for verifying the media library JSON
- make escape key exit from full screen mode
- fixed: http://mv.ezproxy.com.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/issues/330 (paint editor failed to load bitmap costumes)
- escape key should deselect tools in paint editor
v212
- bug: costume pane disappeared
v213
- paint editor changes
- use bounding box for costume dimesions in Costumes/Backgrounds tab
- make costume size update when painting
- fix sprite import from local file
- make costume/backdrop/sound name fields wider
- start of undo support (no UI yet)
So should the current be 212 or 213?

As far as I can tell, v212 is the version on the site and v213 is the current in-progress one (to be released with Thursday's update)

Lightnin

veggieman001
As far as I can tell, v212 is the version on the site and v213 is the current in-progress one (to be released with Thursday's update)

Yep - that's right. Expect 213 sometime on Thursday.

veggieman001

Lightnin
veggieman001
As far as I can tell, v212 is the version on the site and v213 is the current in-progress one (to be released with Thursday's update)

Yep - that's right. Expect 213 sometime on Thursday.

Alright, cool. I've been saving every version I can get my hands on

(which, currently, is 54 versions)

Last edited by veggieman001 (Jan. 16, 2013 19:34:38)

Lightnin

veggieman001
Lightnin
veggieman001
As far as I can tell, v212 is the version on the site and v213 is the current in-progress one (to be released with Thursday's update)

Yep - that's right. Expect 213 sometime on Thursday.
Alright, cool. I've been saving every version I can get my hands on

(which, currently, is 54 versions)

Awesome! You are like an archivist / museum curator.

What will you do with them all?

(And, by the way, have you had a chance to see if 212 works ok with any projects?)

scimonster

Lightnin
veggieman001
Lightnin
veggieman001
As far as I can tell, v212 is the version on the site and v213 is the current in-progress one (to be released with Thursday's update)

Yep - that's right. Expect 213 sometime on Thursday.
Alright, cool. I've been saving every version I can get my hands on

(which, currently, is 54 versions)

Awesome! You are like an archivist / museum curator. What will you do with them all?

(And, by the way, have you had a chance to see if 212 works ok with any projects?)

veggie certainly is an archivist.

It seemed to work from the couple of small projects i looked at, made in 2.0.

veggieman001

Lightnin
veggieman001
Lightnin
veggieman001
As far as I can tell, v212 is the version on the site and v213 is the current in-progress one (to be released with Thursday's update)

Yep - that's right. Expect 213 sometime on Thursday.
Alright, cool. I've been saving every version I can get my hands on

(which, currently, is 54 versions)

Awesome! You are like an archivist / museum curator. What will you do with them all?

(And, by the way, have you had a chance to see if 212 works ok with any projects?)

Seems to work for me in all of my projects, as well as the latest by my friends.

And yeah, I like collecting things. Not sure why, or what I'm going to do with them. I'm probably going to use them for examples on the Scratch Wiki, because it might be interesting to talk about blocks that weren't included and why they weren't. And some of them are just interesting because they're so different (like v44, which I found at Scratch.swf in the directory with Scratch_new.swf but it was removed not long afterwards).

Last edited by veggieman001 (Jan. 17, 2013 18:48:47)

ke1235

i have v215!

wasn't v213 the one coming out today?

Last edited by ke1235 (Jan. 17, 2013 21:36:23)

veggieman001

ke1235
i have v215!
wasn't v213 the one coming out today?

They've made more edits since 213, though.

Lightnin

Thanks for testing, everyone! We'll push this to main the site now.

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