[22 Jan 2010] HW4.0 -> HW4.5 update

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[22 Jan 2010] HW4.0 -> HW4.5 update

Post by nexus »

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:00:34 +0100

Hi all,

have been gone for a while from this list because I couldn't find the time to further work on my latex's beamer style presentation package :-)

Meanwhile, I found the time to work a little bit on it again and what can I see? There's a new Hollywood version! And it seems to include quite a lot of features (like grouping and moving of grouped layers) which I had to implement myself. Great! :-)

But Honstly, I was a little bit disappointed that there wasn't "just" a bug fix release for Hollywood 4.0 first. Don't get me wrong, I will order HW4.5 anyway in some time, but meanwhile, i want to finish my work with HW4.0 first (why else should i have programmed all that stuff in HS4.0 ;-)) before i change the code again for the new HS4.5 API.

Well, the bugs, which I'm talking about concerns mainly AmigaOS4. Textwrapping causes a anyoing GrimmReaper and makes testing of on AOS4 extremely difficult. Well, therefore I'm working on AOS3.x with Hollywood again. So, I'm still fine with that. (I know, that Andreas has already fixed that bug a long time ago).

Another bug which is annyoing is, that SetLayerStyle()-Bug, which does not show all layers correctly after changing its x,y-coordinates. I know its also already fixed.

So I just have to update to Hollywood 4.5 to get all these fixes :-)

Well, I wonder if I'm in trouble in any way with my HW code for 4.0, if I update to 4.5? It's quiet a bit of code already. (and some parts may look weird with all these new 4.5 features :-D )

Many thanks to Andreas for all his work and this new HW 4.5! Again, I don't want to complain that I have to pay for HW4.5 update (I will do that anyway in some time. HW is a great piece of Software). However, I just would have appreciated a bug fix release first :-)

regards, nexus
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[23 Jan 2010] Re: HW4.0 -> HW4.5 update

Post by airsoftsoftwair »

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:10:40 +0100
So I just have to update to Hollywood 4.5 to get all these fixes :-)

Well, I wonder if I'm in trouble in any way with my HW code for 4.0, if I update to 4.5? It's quiet a bit of code already. (and some parts may look weird with all these new 4.5 features :-D )
Most likely, there won't be any problems. There were only some very minor API changes. I'm always taking great care to keep compatibility with older versions. Heck, Hollywood 4.5 is even almost fully compatible with Hollywood 1.0 style scripts, so there's really no need to worry :)
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