Release 2017.05.28.00

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Change Release Notes

  • AutoPosition Movement Movement Panel Control now supports speed for directions (forward, left, right, reverse). The speed is a modifier for Delay and Steps. The modifier can be found in the frame list associated with an action. Edit the frame within a movement action and the modifier is viewable. The modifier values have question marks for assistance

  • JD and Six projects contain movement frames supporting speed (forward, left, right, reverse)

  • JD project has joystick in mobile interface which supports speed

  • Roboscratch ACTION block has "forever" option, which runs the action in the background

  • Roboscratch forward/left/right/reverse have speed values when Auto Position Movement Panel is used

  • Cheat Sheet displays CloseControl() with ShowControl() options

  • Mobile Interface Editor has a new object titled "Back Button". Which essentially is a CloseControl(). If a back button is added to a mobile UI, the automatic transparent back button is not displayed. I.E. adding this object to a mobile interface overrides the automatic back button

*note: If you receive an error during upgrade, uninstall ARC, reboot and install this update.


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#1  

@DJ,

The install package is broken, no ARC.exe.

#2  

I had to rerun the install and tell it to repair. Everything worked after that.

#3  

I'm having the same problem... I get an app called EZ-B Emulator instead of the EZ-B Builder app User-inserted image

When I tried to repair, I got this error User-inserted image

@CochranRobotics Did you uninstall and re-install?

Regards, Frank

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Synthiam
#4  

You may have to uninstall before installing. There's new files and a few changes to the application, so maybe the windows installer program isn't handling the changes well. That'll happen with Microsoft products sometimes :)

#5  

@DJ, The uninstall and then install work for me... Thanks

Just for interest, here is the Windows 10 version I'm running User-inserted image

Regards, Frank