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Change Release Notes
Spooky Friday the 13th software release... And it's the greatest!
- Fixed sharpen image option for camera
- internal camera frame memory copy routines handle negative stride bitmaps even though I'm not sure why they're a thing
- Scripting variable manager has an event for when variable values have changed for plugins
- removed a timer on displaying connection status on mobile app that should have been an event. saved resources
- Re-using as many objects as possible between video frames (less creating and disposing of objects that get reused)
- Using direct memory copy of output video frame so the same memory gets re-used for every frame
- Drawing video feed on canvases using direct memory copies (i.e. blockly, RoboScratch & mobile interface)
- New Invokers uses Actions() rather than delegates, so it's much faster when getting and setting ui control values/parameters
- don't log errors while the application is closing
- New camera capture library that is 2-3% less cpu
- Sound servo is in stereo. Populates left and right channel variables of highest sound per poll
- Camera device displays skipped frames due to image processing being busy with tracking types
- resized some controls for better real estate
- invert full range of servos
- servo control uses events rather than timer
- added new events for controls adding/removing and projects load completed for plugins
- changed GetServoPosition to return the invert value if specified for servo (Vertical/horizontal) controls for plugins
- Fixed sharpen image option for camera
- internal camera frame memory copy routines handle negative stride bitmaps even though I'm not sure why they're a thing
- Scripting variable manager has an event for when variable values have changed for plugins
- removed a timer on displaying connection status on mobile app that should have been an event. saved resources
- Re-using as many objects as possible between video frames (less creating and disposing of objects that get reused)
- Using direct memory copy of output video frame so the same memory gets re-used for every frame
- Drawing video feed on canvases using direct memory copies (i.e. blockly, RoboScratch & mobile interface)
- New Invokers uses Actions() rather than delegates, so it's much faster when getting and setting ui control values/parameters
- don't log errors while the application is closing
- New camera capture library that is 2-3% less cpu
- Sound servo is in stereo. Populates left and right channel variables of highest sound per poll
- Camera device displays skipped frames due to image processing being busy with tracking types
- resized some controls for better real estate
- invert full range of servos
- servo control uses events rather than timer
- added new events for controls adding/removing and projects load completed for plugins
- changed GetServoPosition to return the invert value if specified for servo (Vertical/horizontal) controls for plugins
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All works great now with the new release
thanks