BYOND 5.0 Version 506 Release Notes

Build 506.1247

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Dream Daemon

• Lists sometimes contained bogus references. (Tobba)

Dream Maker

• When renaming an open file to a different file type altogether, the editor did not close; attempting to close it afterward caused a crash. (Albro1)


• The caret did not redraw in the correct place after turning line numbers on or off via Ctrl+L. (Topkasa)

Dream Seeker

• Fonts that were not installed on a user's system, but were included in the resources for the game, did not work properly in all cases. Please note: The solution to this issue makes fonts loaded this way inaccessible to browser controls. However, for browsers it is preferable to use Webfonts anyway. (Sir Lazarus)

Build 506.1246

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• (VS build) Pressing F1 in any of the BYOND apps tried to bring up Windows help. (Superbike32)

BYOND Pager

• The pager relied on file associations to launch .dme files, which didn't exist if BYOND wasn't installed. (Superbike32)

Dream Seeker

• (VS build) Proc error messages could cause crashes. (Superbike32)

Build 506.1245

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All

• (VS build) File dialogs did not retrieve their filename correctly. (Super Saiyan X)

Dream Daemon

• Movable atoms with step offsets or bounds causing them to overlap other tiles could cause crashes after being moved into another movable atom. (Yut Put)


• (VS build) time2text() crashed the server. (Super Saiyan X)

Build 506.1244

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Dream Seeker

• VS build: File dialogs were broken. (Super Saiyan X)


• VS build: Output controls had problems with styling on some lines, and links and images were positioned incorrectly. (Flame Sage)


• When objs and mobs were deleted, their deletion could take longer than it should if any images were in use in the world, even if the obj/mob itself had no references left. (Ter13)

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Dream Daemon

• Further performance tweaks have been added, mainly impacting associative lists and strings. The string tree was susceptible to more imbalances than it needed to be when items were deleted from it.

Build 506.1243

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Dream Daemon

• Object creation has been improved for several object types including obj, mob, area, image, datum, and string. Objs, mobs, and images also will no longer stick around for a short time after deletion. This may result in performance games for some games where creation/destruction happens very frequently. (SkyMarshal)

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Dream Daemon

• Threading has been turned off by default in build 506.1243. It can still be manually enabled in daemon.txt or with command line arguments.

Build 506.1242

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Dream Daemon

• Ban controls in Dream Daemon (Windows) could cause a crash in threaded mode. (Laser50)


• world.Export() could cause crashes in threaded worlds. (Darker Emerald)


• The maximum proc recursion depth in Linux has been lowered to 400; the old limit was too high and did not properly catch infinite recursion in some cases. (Slurm)

Dream Maker

• Pixel offset animations still sometimes had trouble with moving objects. Also, screen objects inappropriately allowed pixel offset animations to work. (YnorRon)

Build 506.1240

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Dream Seeker

• Some image files were read incorrectly, which could cause a crash. (Lizard_Sphere_X)

Build 506.1239

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Dream Daemon

• SQLite database files could not be created in a subdirectory. (Lavitiz)


• Calling a proc using named arguments, if the proc didn't expect any, could cause a crash. (Aranclanos)

Dream Maker

• When editing an instance in the map editor to change an object's contents, the editor could sometimes crash. (Vivalas)

Dream Seeker

• Secondary maps did not display some icons in the right position. (Ter13)

Build 506.1238

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BYOND Pager

• The BYOND pager failed to startup properly on some systems due to the user data directory being setup on a network share. (Hornygranny)

Dream Seeker

• Secondary map controls didn't update after they were cleared in some cases. (Felix Rose)

Build 506.1237

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Dream Maker

• Quoting strings in database queries was incorrect in some cases. (Pirion)

Dream Seeker

• browse_rsc() sometimes failed when an attempt was made to check on the status of a the file before it had finished downloading. This problem appeared only in threaded mode. (Sir Lazarus)

Build 506.1236

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Dream Daemon

• Memory consumption went up over time when using threads much more than when threads were disabled, in the Linux version. Various memory leaks were also fixed for map threads (Linux and Windows), and some in non-threaded mode. (Laser50)


• Resizing the world to a smaller size caused a crash. (Darker Emerald)

Dream Seeker

• Animations with pixel offsets didn't behave properly. (Magicsofa)

Features (More Info)

DM Language

• A new pair of datums, /database and /database/query, give you the ability to manage a database using SQLite on your server. This is not intended as a replacement for savefiles, but it can provide the ability to run complex queries relatively easily. Datatypes supported are numeric (INTEGER, FLOAT, etc.), text (TEXT), and files such as icons (BLOB).
  
  Example:
  

  var/database/db = new("mydb.db")
  var/database/query/q = new("SELECT pet_name, species FROM pets WHERE owner = ? AND power > ?", usr.key, 9000)
  if(!q.Execute(db)) return
  var/list/pets = new
  while(q.NextRow())
      var/row = q.GetRowData()
      var/pet = row["pet_name"]
      var/species = row["species"]
      pets[pet] = species
  return pets
  

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