[ANN] Release 9.6.0 RC-1

[panagiotis merakos]

Hello Ralph,

I believe that if you just set the 3x image to the largest image you used
before (e.g. use a 2048x2732 image), then the storyboard mechanism will
take care of the rest and scale the image automagically to fit all screen
sizes. At least this was the case in my tests.

We'll see if we could add more info in the tooltips or in the release notes
to make this less confusing :)

Also, off-topic, I noticed that the app loads faster now that it uses the
storyboard. I am curious if it is faster for you as well.

Kind regards,
Panos
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On Mon, 11 May 2020 at 17:55, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Panos,
>
> What size does the splash images need to be? How are they resized for
> various device aspect ratios? I make the splash image the same as the first
> card of the stack and in the past it was easy to make them match. I could
> not find anything in the docs or release notes. There used to be an image
> for each device. Now there is only 3 for all devices. Actually there is 6
> three light three dark but only three for any mode. How is this going to
> work?
>
> Ralph DiMola
> IT Director
> Evergreen Information Services
> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [ANN] Release 9.6.0 RC-1
>
> Dear list members,
>
> We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 9.6.0 RC-1.
>
>
> Getting the Release
> ===================
> You can get the release at https://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ or via
> the automatic updater.
>
>
> Release Contents
> ================
> LiveCode 9.6.0 RC-1 comes with more than 30 changes, including:
>
> New Features
>   - Support for Storyboard launch images and backgrounds on iOS
>   - Support for using the flash as a torch in the Android Barcode Scanner
>   - Support for building with Xcode 11.4, using the iOS 13.4 SDK
>   - New tsNet and mergExt builds, built with the iOS 13.4 SDK
>
> Bug Fixes:
>   - Improvements in the text-to-speech library
>   - Improvements in the iOS native browser
>   - Improvements in the camera control object
>   - Significant performance improvement when saving stacks on Windows
>   - Improvements in the Windows FFI in LCB
>
> For the full list of all fixes, updates and enhancements please see the
> release notes:
> http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/9_6_0/LiveCodeNotes-9_6_0_rc_1.pdf
>
>
> Known issues
> ============
> - The Browser widget's native layer is not shown in some Linux distros with
> Cinnamon window manager.
> - The use of the Browser widget is not supported on Ubuntu 18.04 64 bit LTS
> yet.
>
>
> Required Software
> =================
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> Xcode as follows:
>
>   - macOS 10.13.4: Xcode 10.1 - LiveCode builds iOS apps using the iOS 12.1
> SDK
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> 13.2 SDK
>   - macOS 10.15.2: Xcode 11.4.x - LiveCode builds iOS apps using the iOS
> 13.4 SDK
>
> There is a full list of working LiveCode/macOS/Xcode combinations here:
> https://livecode.com/docs/9-5-0/faq/faq/
>
> Note: Whilst we endeavour to release updated versions of LiveCode
> supporting
> the latest Xcode/iOS SDKs as quickly as possible; we strongly recommend
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>
> Important: From the end of June 2020, Apple will only be accepting apps
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