[PD] [PD-announce] Cyclone 0.5-0 released (need Pd 0.51-0)

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

*Cyclone 0.5-0 is out now, june 10th (at least in parts of Europe it's
already 10th!)*

Cyclone 0.5-0 needs at least Pd 0.51-0, details on installing cyclone, news
and downloads at
https://github.com/porres/pd-cyclone/releases/tag/cyclone_0.5-0

You can also download it directly from Pd via menu "Help => Find
Externals". The only binary still missing is raspberry pi, give it a day or
so until it's up in the repository and in deken...

The most important thing in this release is that [comment], the last object
still waiting for updates, has received its deserved attention and now has
many new functionalities from newer versions of Max. It is still not fully
compliant to Max6+ versions, but it had been warned that this object would
be an exception when upgrading to Max7. All it misses though is some silly
but fancy looking "bubble" style, and I hope people won't mind. On the
other hand, we got now 'fontface', 'underline', 'bgcolor'
and 'textjustification'. t now also correctly loads font names with spaces.
There are still more things to be done to this object, but in theory and
practice *that goal we set back in february 2016 (4 years and 4 months ago)
to update objects in cyclone to Max 7 is finally
completed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

Cyclone's development has slowed a lot, but it's still alive, there are
plans to eventually include a few new things from Max 8 that affects some
of the cyclone objects.

Some more has been done as well for this cyclone 0.5 release, like zooming
for scope~ and comment. When created as an object, the cyclone binary now
outputs the version so you can make sure your patches have the right
version of cyclone. One other important thing is that now we're supporting
back the aliases for Upper Case letters in order to be able to load older
patches. We had a problem in 0.3 where symlinks for Linux weren't working
and decided to drop it for 0.4, now this is fixed and it's back! See all
details below.


Full Changelog:

   - Re-added support for capital letters aliases - this is for backwards
   compatibility and now the objects print an error telling the user to change
   to the new name. The affected objects are: cyclone/append (*); bucket;
   cyclone/clip (*); decode; histo; mousestate; peak; cyclone/table (*);
   togedge; trough; uzi; cyclone/clip~ (*); cyclone/line~ (*); scope~;
   cyclone/snapshot~ (*)

(*) these classes need the 'cyclone/' prefix to avoid name clashes with
vanilla internals - see help file for more information.

   -

   When loaded as an object, the 'cyclone' library now also outputs the
   version number. You can use this to make sure your patch has the right
   version.
   -

   Fixed some type formats for [sprintf] and updated the documentation.
   -

   Fixed a bug with [zl delace] in windows where the 2nd outlet wasn't
   working
   -

   Fixed a bug in [active] where right click would deactivate in linux
   -

   Added a few new message methods/attributes to [number~], thanks to the
   new inlet~ 'fwd' feature from Pd 0.51 (namely bang, list, set, ft1,
   interval, minimum, maximum, bgcolor, textcolor).
   -

   [scope~]:
   - Added zoom support and now the patch properly asks if you want to save
      changes when parameters change.
      - Fixed a regression bug in scope~ where it wouldn't draw if loaded
      in a patch with DSP on
   -

   [comment]:
   - Added zoom support and now the patch properly asks if you want to save
      changes when parameters change.
      - Visual change where it now shows its inlet while in edit mode (like
      it happens in Max)
      - Fixed a bug in [comment] where it couldn't load font names that had
      spaces (such as "DejaVu Sans Mono") and made the default font
"DejaVu Sans
      Mono" like in Pd. But this only works well in Pd 0.51-0 or
later! Note that
      although Pd ships with Deja Vu Sans Mono, it still doesn't offer
italic and
      italic+bold variants. With this change all cyclone documentation has been
      revised to only contain DejaVu Sans Mono fonts in all cyclone/comment
      objects. This fixes an issue where it would load different fonts in
      different systems if it didn't have the actual same font installed.
      - Updated [comment] to add missing Max 5 parameters (added
      'fontface', 'underline' and 'bgcolor' methods/attributes, plus an extra
      'bg' method/attribute to suppress background)
      - Also added 'textjustification' from Max6.
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