The Changelog

✨ New Features

• Introduce Actions — a new unified system for any input methods

⚡ General Improvements

• Add a pool for killed copies to limit garbage collection calls
• Remove non-existent modules from a project, if there are such

🍱 Demos and Modules

• Add keyboard.polyfill for IE and old browsers. Enable it by default in new projects
• Update demos and tutorials

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Bundle scripts of catmods on one level with ct.js (this solves issues with itch.io and GameJolt games)
• Clarify a cryptic error that appears if one provides a non-existing type name to ct.types.copy
• Clear input value to be able to reselect the same font
• Display a catmod's license on the "Info" tab
• Fix a font not showing up after being renamed
• Fix an issue when you can't import the same texture twice in a row
• Fix ct.mouse.down not working
• Fix ct.room.followDrift overshooting on low values and low FPS
• Fix ct.touch that used ct.width and ct.height instead of ct.viewWidth and ct.viewHeight, resulting in incorrect coordinates on some scaling methods
• Fix ct.u.ext not returning the extended object
• Fix flawed this.xprev, this.yprev handling in ct as it is and in ct.place
• Fix UI problems of font deletion
• Fix importing font on Windows
• Fix mouse coordinates not updating on view shift (in-game)
• Fix non-working "Open" options in context menus for rooms, sounds and textures
• Fix wrong calculation of rotated rects in ct.place, that turned rectangles into points
• Prevent unwanted name change when importing a sound
• Remove this.updateList(); call that caused a UI update error after deleting a font
• Update ace.js autocomplete list
• Update graphics, sounds, rooms panels after opening a project from a hamburger menu
• Update shape and anchor of a copy while changing a texture
• Update the type picker in the room editor after deleting a type
• Refresh the preview immediately when activating fill and selecting diffuse in a style

💄 UI Improvements

• 🎨 Rename "graphic assets" into "Textures"
• Add a zoom control to graphics editor
• Add an icon in the module info that shows that a module provides additional input methods

📝 Docs & Tutorials

• Add an example to ct.inputs.addAction
• Document actions and ct.inputs
• Document ct.sound.playing
• Document ct.vkeys
• Document the way of adding new input methods with catmods
• Fix ct.keyboard.clear(); docs
• Provide docs for the new ct.mouse
• Rename "Graphic assets" into "Textures"
• Tons of minor fixes in tut-making-platformer
• Update Platformer_tutorial
• Update Space Shooter tutorial
• ⚡️ Add a link to ct.u that shows a difference between a shallow and a deep copy
• ⚡️ Clarify ct.u.unlerp
• ⚡️ Minor fixes and clarifications at Making Space Shooter tutorial
• ⬆️ Update vuepress to 1.0@next
• 🌐 Add ct.md for Ru locale
• 🌐 Add readme.md and tut-making-platformer fot RU locale
• 🌐 Translate "Making Space Shooter" tutorial to Russian
• 🌐 Translate catmoddocs.md to Ru
• 🌐 Translate ct.inputs.md to Ru locale
• 🌐 Translate ct.res.md to Ru locale
• 🌐 Translate ct.rooms.md to Ru locale
• 🌐 Translate ct.sound.md to Ru locale
• 🌐 Translate ct.styles.md to Ru locale
• 🌐 Translate ct.types.md to Ru locale
• 🌐 Translate ct.u.md to Ru locale
• 🐛 Move a note about event sequence and this.kill to the right place at ct.types.md
• 🐛 Update ct.md to reflect v1.0
• 🐛 Update ct.res.md
• 🐛 Update description of ct.rooms.switch
• 💥 Remove ct.mouse. Document the change in the migration guide.

👽 Misc

• ⌛ Provide docs for ct.mouse.legacy
• ⌛ Add a legacy version of ct.keyboard
• ⌛ Connect legacy versions of ct.keyboard and ct.mouse to older projects
• ✏ A typo in autocompletion: ct.types.addSpeed has (copy, speed, dir) parameters
• 🍎 Add long-press menus for Mac

28 January 2019

✨ New Features

• Add ct.room.followShiftY, ct.room.followShiftX
• Add a ct.place.moveAlong method that allows for continuous movement in a given direction.
• Add horizontally and non-repeating backgrounds to rooms
• Add support for complex collision shapes
• Add support for DragonBones skeletal animation
• Catmods: add a 'radio' input type
• Catmods: define additional fields in the type editor
• ct.place: Add this.moveContinuous to all copies
• Multiple copy editing in room editor
• Repeat-x, repeat-y and no-repeat options for backgrounds

⚡ General Improvements

• Add a multiple flag to ct.place.occupied, ct.place.meet that allows to get all the copies that participated in collision.
• 💄 (x,y) position of the mouse in the room editor.
• 💄 Add an HTML/CSS preloader to exported games
• 💄 Add "Recent Projects" to the hamburger menu
• 💄 Add an ability to forget projects in the "Recent Projects" list
• Add ct.place, ct.fittoscreen, ct.keyboard, ct.sound.howler and ct.akatemplate by default to all the new projects
• Add ct.sound.exists method
• Add support for sound events in DragonBones skeletons
• Allow to set an empty sprite to a copy by changing this.graph = -1;
• ct.place: add a ctype input to type editors
• Introduce ct.viewWidth, ct.viewHeight.
• Make backgrounds resilient to missing extends
• Remember window position on load (ct.IDE)
• Update ct.place
• Update fittoscreen to v2.0: add more scaling methods for fine quality at a wide variety of resolutions
• ⬆ Update Pixi.js to v4.8.5

💄 UI Improvements

• ⚡ Autofocus code editors on tab change
• ⚡ Make text and code in module panel selectable
• Add nifty sounds to notifications
• Crop long paths to recent projects on the left side
• Show a message about where the project and the exported version were zipped, because some systems (e.g. Windows 10) don't show the files in file managers

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 💄 Add a "cancel" button while selecting a tileset
• Fix desktop exporter not picking the first room as the starting one if no room was marked as such
• Fix exporter for desktop platforms
• Fix parallax + non-repeat background behaviour
• Fix project loader not loading the most old ct.js projects
• Fix unwanted interpolation on stretched sprites if "Disable image smoothing..." is checked
• Remove autosave errors in dev console that appeared while no project was loaded

🍱 Demos and Stuff

• Update catformer demo to v1.0.0-next-2
• Update demos and examples

📝 Docs

• Add a deprecation notice to ct.place.legacy
• Add a notice about dragonBones animation events
• Add tips & tricks for effective viewport management
• Document new catmods' capabilities
• Document the import process and usage of skeletal animations
• Document this.moveContinuous at ct.place readme
• Finish JS Intro, pt 2
• Fix flipped directions in a tip at https://docs.ctjs.rocks/tut-making-shooter.html#moving-hostiles-and-asteroids
• Rename ct.place.go attribute speed to length
• Update tutorials to v1.0.0-next-2

📄 License

• Add a ct.js version with website link to console output
• Add SSCD license
• Adding a Pixi.js license (3rd-party)
• Formatting license, adding a Termination section
• License: Add DragonBonesJS license (3rdparty)

👽 Misc

• 🌐 Add a link for crowd-sourced translations
• 🌐 Add a partial French translations by Vactro
• ⁉ Add ./ to all resource paths to load, because itch.io
• 💩 Bump ct.keyboard version to v2.0.0, because it should have beeen bumped before.
• 🔥 Remove ffmpeg-node for now
• 🔥 Remove vkontakte link in the starting screen, because I no longer use vkontakte
• 🚚 Rename old place module to place.legacy

1 December 2018

✨ New Features

• ⚡ WebGL Renderer
• ⚡ Ctrl+S and autosave/recovery feature
• ⚡ Additional fields for backgrounds: movement, shifting, parallax and scaling

💄 UI Improvements

• ⚡ Show axis in graph editor
• ⚡ Make graphic selection in type and room editors for backgrounds cancellable

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix memory leak when updating room with opened backgrounds tab
• Fix memory leak on room switch in ct.place
• Fix color pickers not returing their intermediate values to editors

🍱 Demos and Stuff

• Update example projects to v1.0-next-1

🔥 Removed

• Remove ct.draw.patch, ct.canvas

📝 Docs

• Add a migration guide
• Add a note about tearing backgrounds when they are not marked as "Tiled"
• Update Space Shooter tutorial
• Update Platformer tutorial
• 💥 Write docs for new ct.styles

📄 License

• Add nw-builder license notice (3rd party)

💬 Misc

• ✏️ Add 'A' to the font editor
• ✏️ Fixing minor issues in Russian localization file
• 💥 Changing ct.styles API to work with Pixi.js
• 💥 Repurpose styles editor to making pixi's TextStyle

⚡ General Improvements

• Ctrl+S and autosave/recovery feature

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix fonts with spaces in their path not working correctly inside the editor
• Fix memory leak in room editor with opened background editor
• Fix memory leak on room switch in ct.place
• Fix color pickers not returing their intermediate values to editors

💄 UI Improvements

• ⚡ Make graphic selection in type and room editors for backgrounds cancellable
• Show axis in graph editor

💬 Misc

• ✏ Fix minor issues in Russian localization file
• ✏ Add 'A' to the font editor

📄 License

• Add nw-builder license notice (3rd-party)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix autocompletion being triggered on ; and line end
• Fix project update for older versions not working
• Fix ct.place.tile moving copies around by itself

🍱 Demos

• Update tutorials' project version

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix missing fields in newly created projects.

⚡ General Improvements

• Add a /*%commented%*/ format for modules' configurable fields, as an alternative to the %standard% one.
• Improvements to ct.place: greatly improve speed for ct.place.occupied, ct.place.free, ct.place.meet, ct.place.tile. Make x and y parameters in most functions optional. The new variant is now preferred (e.g. ct.place.occupied(this, 'Solid'); )
• Little optimizatons of ct.place
• Little performance optimizations for drawing
• Make a small transition to a prototype-based system. Introduce this.draw, this.move and this.addSpeed calls on copies.
• More zoom levels in the room editor
• Refactor ct.types, move actual types to ct.types.templates
• Reuse of metadata in ct.js and exported projects

✨ New Features

• Add a font manager
• Add a Reimport button to imported graphics assets
• Add ct.js autocompletions for code editors
• Add ct.u.deltaDir, ct.u.lerp, ct.u.unlerp, ct.u.clamp, and ct.u.inspect
• Add multi-selection for tiles

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix ct.place.nearest and ct.place.furthest
• Fix drawing copies with graphics offsets in the room editor
• Fix incorrect export of tilesets with non-square grids

📝 Docs

• Add a notice about location of catmods' docs
• Visually better tips in tutorials and minor changes

⚗ Experimental

• Add ct.eqs and ct.victoria catmods
• Project exporter

💬 Other

• Add a link to Patreon
• Add links to Twitter, Discord and VK to the starting screen

⚡ General Improvements

• A better error message from ct.tween when switching to a new room.
• Add a search/sort panel to the graphic selector
• Add an option to ct.touch to disable default events prevention on touches,…
• ct.rooms.make now returns an array of created copies.

✨ New Features

• Add a ct.draw.patch module
• Add an 'Isometrify' button to the graphics editor
• Add ct.u.wait method
• Resize copies and set their precise coords while in room editor

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix ct.canvas.drawTileExt
• Fix graphics sometimes unavailable at room editor

💄 UI Improvements

• Better QR code legibility on dark themes
• Move all thumbnails to the left side

Docs

• Add a link to the Discord server to the docs
• Add a tutorial about localStorage and game saves

⚡ General Improvements

• Add a room's name to its properties in the exported project
• Add a Shift modifier to place multiple copies or tiles at a room at once
• Add conversion to ES5
• Add QR codes and local addresses to the preview window
• Add tile culling
• Disable scaling and set proper width on mobile devices. Combine it with ct.fittoscreen to make your games mobile-ready (graphically)
• More consistent and intuitive tile and copy placement on grids in room editor
• More consistent behavior of ct.fittoscreen
• Move room templates to a JS object ct.rooms.templates
• Reorder room creation process to allow modifying room's view by copies' On Create code
• Set ct as a JavaScript object, move the canvas tag and all its properties to ct.HTMLCanvas

✨ New features

• Add ct.touch module
• Handling of copy-tile collisions with ct.place.tile
• Integrated debugger
• Show/hide certain tile layers

🍱 Demos

• Add a Platformer tutorial example project and its assets
• Update Catformer demo
• Update Catsteroids demo

🐛 Bugs Fixed

• Clean up logical assets after deleting a type or a graphical asset
• Fix checkboxes on the Settings tab not showing their saved state
• Fix HTML / CSS minification not working
• Fix preloader and random startup errors
• Room editor: Fix Shift and Ctrl modifiers working after a context menu was called.

💄 UI Improvements

• A bit better buttons
• Fix copy palette being visible on room's events screen
• Prevent clipping of sprite sheet settings at graphics editor on smaller screens. Move collision shape show/hide control to the left column.
• Tile editor improvements

📝 Docs

• Add a Platformer tutorial
• Add info about ct.js engine to docs' homepage
• Document ct.place.tile

Other

• 📄 License: Remove edit prohibition for 3rd party libraries
• 💬 Rename 'Graphic' to 'Graphics'
• 🔖 Bump ct.fittoscreen version
• 🚚 🍱 Move SpaceShooter demo to a better location
• 🍱 Add a simple .desktop file for linux

⚡ General Improvements

• Rectangular grids in room editor

✨ New Features

• Support for tilesets! An early version, EXPERIMENTAL

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix a bug preventing picking a background
• Fix a bug preventing to delete a room with a context menu
• Fix FPS input in graph editor not working
• Fix modal dialogues with 'Delete' labels instead of 'Ok'
• Replace JS minifier to support ES6

💄 UI Improvements

• Changes to number fields in style and graphic editors now affect preview panes instantly
• Search and sorting for room editor with minor UI improvements
• Show a warning when using duplicate names in assets

⚡️ General Improvements

• Add ct.draw.img as an alias to ct.draw.image
• Add optional x and y parameters to ct.draw()
• Git-friendly asset identifiers
• Make x and y in ct.types.copy optional
• Pre-initialize ct.types.list with empty arrays for each type
• Support new Keyboard API standard
• Update mouse position each frame; better ct.mouse.inside resolution

✨New Features

• 💄 Dark theme!
• Add a ct.sprite catmod

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Enable code checking in editors
• Fix an error in module.json of ct.canvas module
• Fix bugs when cancelling the an asset's duplicate creation
• Fix flipped orientation in ct.draw.imgext
• Fix pattern drawing with styles
• Fix pixelated render not fully working
• Fix styles' line width not exported correctly
• Fix texture selection in the styles editor
• Room size must be exported as numerical values
• Update the graphic asset in the editor's memory after replacing its source

💄 UI Improvements

• Add a "Copy the name" option to assets' context menus
• Better modal dialogues
• Custom Scrollbars
• Different minor UI improvements
• Open the sound after its creation
• Sort and search fields in resource views
• Wider room thumbnails

📄 License

• Added license.

📝 Docs

• 🐛 Fix minor mistakes in ct.types docs

✨ New features

• 💄 More options for sounds and better UI
• Add custom scripts to your project
• Introduce ct.place.go and ct.place.trace methods
• Launch a static server for exported projects
• "Line — everything" collision detection in ct.place
• New ct.sound.howler module
• New ct.fittoscreen module

⚡ General Improvements

• 🐛 Minor changes to the standart ct.sound
• 📝 Launch docs locally — now the docs for your particular version are bundled with ct.js and are available offline
• Make ct.mouse aware of possible view scrolling and scaling

🐛 Bug fixes

• Export unchecked ‘checkbox’ fields as false, not as an empty string
• Fix a bug in ct.draw.polygon.close, ct.draw.polygon.fill, ct.draw.polygon.stroke
• Fix ct.u.prect function not working with mirrored coordinates
• Fix exporter not copying includes folders of ctlibs
• Fix occasional failures while loading new images
• Fix wrong extensions of exported sounds

💄 UI improvements

• Make docs blue!
• Add a button to return to docs’ homepage
• Better presentation of ‘checkbox’ options of catmods
• Fix list overflow if there are too many resources

📝 Docs

• Add missing file extensions in “Creating your own mods” page
• Remove unexisting config fields of catmods, document the "help" field
• Reflect changes of ct.sound API

🍱 Updated demos

• Update Catformer demo with fullscreen option
• Update Catsteroids with ct.sound.howler

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix the update notice on the home screen