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News (2003)

31Dec2003

• added ftp module by Gerd Feldkirch (see source here)
• added freeverb plugin by Gerd Feldkirch (includes dll+src+dsw+docs)
• added modulator plugin (includes dll+src+dsw+makefile.linux+docs+example)

30Dec2003

• added telnet module by Gerd Feldkirch! thanks :) (see source here)

27Dec2003

• 
• new Win32 TKS release 0.5.3.2 (win32 binaries: tks,tksdl,SDL,SDL_net,libpng,zlib)
  • includes all plugins
• new tks source release 0.5.3.2 (win32,linux,cygwin and maybe others..)
• updated tksdl plugin source
• updated eqxmms plugin source
• added sidplay2 plugin source
• core::bugfix: String::append()/alloc() overwrote internal string flags
  • multi-line (>2) string constants now actually work (as a consequence)
• core::bugfix: File::readBuffer() (now works if _resize==0..)
• core::bugfix: File::seek(0, SEEK_END)
• core::bugfix: File::open() changed boolean _readwrite param to _access enum IOS_IN, IOS_OUT, IOS_INOUT.
• core::added: IntArray::copyFrom(), FloatArray::copyFrom()
• core::added: IntArray::elementExists()
• core::added: Buffer::setString(), getString()
• core::added: YAC_Object::yacArrayRealloc()
• core::bugfix: YAC_Buffer now works also in plugins..
• tksdl::bugfix: NetworkBuffer::getString(): returned String.length is now set properly
• tksdl::bugfix: openScreen->toggleFullScreen now correctly uses screen resolution for desktop window
• tksdl::bugfix: Texture::blend() panning bug (wrong weights)
• tksdl::bugfix: Texture::setScreenArea() / [] operator (wrong stride)
• tksdl::added: TCPSocket::recv() now also accepts Buffer objects. if _len is 0, it will be replaced by the buffer size
• added sidplay2 plugin! the plugin is based on the sidplay2/reSID engine which performs a cycle exact (sound-) emulation of the classic Commodore=64 SID soundchips 6581 (<~1988) and 8580 (C=64c,>~1988). It can be used to replay C64 "SID" sound files which can be obtained e.g. from the High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC).
• released the C=64 SID collection ("music disk") (contains win32 exe+all req. dll's) (~820k) (TKX-only release is here, ~300k, requires latest TKS release)

16Dec2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.5.3.0 (win32 binaries: tks,tksdl,SDL,SDL_net,libpng,zlib)
• new tks source release 0.5.3.0 (win32,linux,cygwin and maybe others..)
• updated tksdl source
• core::bugfix: stream::seek can now seek to end of file, i.e. offset==size (instead of offset<size)
• core::bugfix: the "mod:" place holder in project substitutes the TKS_MODULE_PATH environment variable/registry entry and files now falls back to the current working directory if the module has not been found in the archive directory.
• core::bugfix: if arguments are passed to a script function w/o args, an error message is printed
• core::bugfix: array::numElements is now correctly deserialized from streams
• core::bugfix: tripleargexpr op2 fixed (was always <..d'oh..)
• tksdl::bugfix: UDPSocket::open: debug message corrected (printed host twice instead of host+port#)
• tksdl::bugfix: IPAddress host+port# are now transparently converted from/to network byte order (big endian, internal format used by the SDL_net library (btw: did this behaviour change in recent SDL_net releases!? I bet it already worked a year ago) )
• tksdl::added: 10ms delay in event loop if video redraw behaviour is REDRAW_DIRTY.
• tksdl::added: Color::glLightMaterialAmbient(), Color::glLightMaterialDiffuse(), Color::glLightMaterialAmbientAndDiffuse(), Color::glLightMaterialSpecular(), Color::glLightMaterialEmission()
• modules: added 3DS module and an example script (simple3ds.tkx, simple3ds.tks, simple3ds_camera.tks)
• added eqxmms plugin! the plugin allows to adjust 5/10/25 or 31 individual frequency bands of a 44100Hz/stereo float waveform (stored in a float array). The plugin is based on the "eq-xmms" plugin by Felipe Rivera <liebremx at users.sourceforge.net>. All GTK/GLIB related code has been removed and the source has been restructured and compacted to a single file. The equalizer burns a considerable amount of CPU cycles, I measured ~18% load on an athlon2400+ with 31 bands and extra filtering (i.e. 2 cascaded filter passes) :).

21Nov2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.5.2.8 (win32 binaries: tks,tksdl,SDL,SDL_net,libpng,zlib)
• new tks source release 0.5.2.8 (win32,linux,cygwin and maybe others..)
• core::added: updated YAC interface and added YAC_Object::yacIsStream() method.
• core::added: YAC_IS_STREAM() macro now uses the yacIsStream() method
• core::added: added some more API methods to handle property classes (TKS class)
• added propertyclass.tks example
• updated pdf documentation (not quiet finished, yet)
• re-added some old scripts (fire, plasma, ..) for historical reasons (sry but the inline assembler was removed some time ago..)

16Nov2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.5.2.7 (win32 binaries: tks,tksdl,SDL,SDL_net,libpng,zlib)
• new tks source release 0.5.2.7 (win32,linux,cygwin and maybe others..)
• core::bugfix: superclass method call now works in expressions, too (1 line was missing in the parser source :)
• core::added: when resolving a (scripted) C++ API method call, base classes are now searched, too..
• core::added: finally added the 'run.sh' startup script by Andreas Schiffler he sent some weeks ago. the script addresses a problem with the tks plugin loader witnessed with certain releases of Mandrake Linux. the problem has been tracked down to be an issue with the 'dl' and/or pthread libraries. the 'run.sh' script is a work-around which sets an LD_PRELOAD environment variable before the script engine is started.

13Nov2003

• The first draft of the revised, english documentation has been released. take a look here

02Nov2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.5.2.6
• new tks source release 0.5.2.6 (win32,linux,cygwin and maybe others..)
• core::bugfix: switch..case now works with String comparison values (oops)
• core::bugfix: for loop now accepts empty modification statement (oops)
• core::added: Andreas Schiffler sent in a startup script that should fix plugin-loader issues with certain versions of glibc/pthreads
• added testlang.tks example

02Nov2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.5.2.5b
• new tks source release 0.5.2.5b (win32,linux,cygwin and maybe others..)
• bugfix: TKS::setObjectPropertyByName() should work now
• bugfix: TKS::newObjectByName(), YAC_Host::yacNew(): now works with user defined classes, too..
• added testlang.tks example

01Nov2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.5.2.5
• new tks source release 0.5.2.5 (win32,linux,cygwin and maybe others..)
• improved HashTable performance
• converted some examples (ary3,hash,hash2,nestedloop,random,sieve,strcat,sumcol,wordfreq) taken from "the great computer language shootout" site (the benchmarks results cannot be compared since the site is too old, but you may want to get the sources). see downloads.

21Oct2003

• the printable documentation is currently being revised and translated to english. if anyone, especially native speakers, out there want to help me don't hesitate to drop me a mail!

14Oct2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.5.2.4
• core::bugfix: detection of illegal pointers has been improved / re-added
• core::bugfix: HashTables are now serialized properly
• core::bugfix: 'String' is now a valid expression (factor)
• added printable, german documentation (PDF)

04Oct2003

• well, long time no update but I'm currently working on a printable (and revised) documentation; stay tuned!

03Sep2003

• added tks-i586-linux.tar.gz (precompiled tks+tksdl binaries along with 3rd party libraries, also includes docs+examples)
• new Win32 SDK release 0.5.2.3
• tksdl::doc: added toc.html for GLManPages (see tksdl docs/functions)
• core::streamio: fixed a recently introduced bug, fstreams are now properly openend (again) with ios::nocreate in read-only mode under win32..
• core::api: FloatArray::operator = now also works if array elements are "read-only" (they will be reallocated)

02Sep2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.5.2.2
• zlib114 +libpng13 are now statically linked with tksdl.dll
• updated to SDL 1.2.6
• new tks-0.5.2.2-src.tar.gz source distribution which includes
  • tks-source.zip (scriptengine/plugin host source)
  • yac.zip (plugin SDK)
  • plugins/tksdl.zip (OpenGL,SDL,SDL_net,libpng,zlib bindings)
  • plugins/mysql.zip (libMySQLclient bindings)
• added source installation guide ("compiling")

01Sep2003

• 
• btw: you may want to take a look at the (complete) retrovaders2 script source: retrovaders2.tks, the complete project (along with textures and samples) is available here
• the 'executable' tkx file is here: retrovaders2.tkx, also see downloads

31Aug2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.5.2.0
• core::bugfix: Envelope class tested + fixed
• core::bugfix: class stack is now only locked once for each thread so that nested class method calls now work again
• core::pluginregistry::bugfix: : unresolved APIC_xxx symbols (c function bindings) are now reported properly
• core::pluginregistry::new: uses Sun's 'libdl' API as default if DX_WIN32 is not defined, DX_NO_DL option added to disable plugin loader (cygwin)
• core: updated makefile.linux
• core: added makefile.cygwin
• core::class:bugfix ..for the mdsplugin test (not officially released yet)
• core: updated tks-source.zip (21:30, now tested with gcc 3.2 AND cygwin, also ofcourse Microsoft/VisualC++ and GNU/Linux gcc2.9.x+gmake)
• core: updated online documentation
• tksdl::opengl:bugfix: zglTexCoordPointer renamed to zglTexCoordPointer2f and fixed..
• tksdl::audio::bugfix: sequencer timeframe_size is now initialized correctly
• tksdl::audio::added float MIDINoteToFrequency(float _note) function
• tksdl: updated makefile.linux
• tksdl: updated tksdl.zip source (18:15)
• tksdl: updated online documentation

30Aug2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.5.1.1
• bugfix: JIT class.member=expr; didn't automatically typecast ints/floats
• bugfix: Texture.expand2n/Texture.copyRegion: sx/sy c'n'p typo fixed (caused a segv)
• bugfix: var++,var-- was not always correctly resolved (if used without previous declaration)
• bugfix: Pool::empty() did not reset used_elements/free_elements
• bugfix: changed max. number of global variables from 64 to 512
• bugfix: changed default compiler parameters in makefile.linux
• bugfix: linux port of pluginregistry.cpp did not compile out-of-the-box with the standard tks-config.h
• tksdl: re-added (slightly modified) SamplePlayer class
• tksdl: added Texture::createMask(int _colorkey)
• tksdl: 8bit indexed palette PNG images are now loaded correctly
• tksdl: Texture::scaleFrom() 8>32 bit conversion now writes 8bit source values to all RGBA components
• added MAXINTARRAYSIZE,MAXFLOATARRAYSIZE,MAXARRAYSIZE defines for [Int|Float|String|Class|Object|Pointer|Array::alloc() methods
• bugfix: Stream/Buffer/File::setOffset() fixed
• added retrovaders 2- the sp/\ce invaders are back =)
• the source release will follow later this day..

08Aug2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.5.0.7
• updated tks-source.zip
• fixed a small but annoying bug: the foreach syntax was changed to FOREACH..IN (instead of FOREACH..OF which is horribly wrong)
• added docifier (a small hack which generates the API documents)
• changed the win32 compiler settings so the executable size is now 117 instead of 168k (btw: the entire SDK including docs + examples fits on a 3,5" disk..)
• added a TKS_JIT define option to the source release (see tks-config.h) so you can now disable the JIT in case you want to try tks on non-x86 platforms
• I'd be glad to include your cputables for PPC, SPARC, MIPS.. :) any volunteers? it's not that difficult since the JIT compiler doesn't need to "know" much about its target CPU
• I'd also like to include makefiles/binaries for other operating systems as well so if you have successfully compiled the sources then mail me your files so I can add them to the "downloads"
• I appreciate any constructive feedback so don't hesitate and drop me a mail!

05Aug2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.5.0.6
• updated tks-source.zip and the tksdl.zip OpenGL/SDL plugin source
• re-added lighting functions and some other things
• most important: updated tksdl documentation
• re-added torus example

01Aug2003

• added Win32 SDK release 0.5.0.5 (includes SDL, SDL_net, libpng, zlib +the tksdl/OpenGL plugin)
• TKS is now distributed under the terms of the GNU public license (GPL). the source is available here.
• The YAC plugin interface is distributed under terms of the lesser ("library") GNU public license (LGPL) so you are not obligated, only encouraged, to release the sources for your C/C++ API plugins.
• An alternative license for the TKS script engine itself is available on request (for closed source projects).
• the new "tksdl" plugin wraps around SDL, SDL_net, libpng (and zlib) and OpenGL.
• the TKS JIT uses a cputable based code generator so it should be possible to port the JIT to e.g. MIPS, Sparc, PowerPC, ARM.. any volunteers ;) ? it's fun but you need to know some assembler -- please drop me a mail if you want to take that challenge
• the JIT nevertheless is not required but there currently are no #ifdefs to disable it in the source distribution which means that TKS should compile on all x86 based systems with gcc (please send in your binaries!)
• I cleant up the API and there have been some changes e.g.:
  • GLMatrix, GLState, GLPrim, GLLight classes disappeared, replaced by functions (e.g. GLMatrix.load() becomes zglLoadMatrix())
  • Font, PaintDevice, Modulator, Scene3DS, Mesh, MeshInstance, MeshMaterial, MeshIndex, ParticleSystem disappeared or are replaced by equivalent script modules (Font, ParticleSystem ATM).
  • the "bindkey" and "unbindkey" statements disappeared since this is soon going to be replaced by a much more elegant solution. until then, use the onKeyboard() callback.
• the old tkx files cannot be used with this release anymore
• re-added examples: bobfield, crparticles, cubeworld, nehelesson5, rotzoomer, sinescroller, testtime.

01Jul2003

• added tkscript.zip release 0.2.0.7 (200KB exe + some examples, for Win32, updated 17:18); it contains the JIT compiler, the interpreter engine, the FPU and VM inline assembler and some basic API classes (arrays, hashtable, pool, treenode, string..)..and last but not least the "YAC" plugin interface.
• the package has all language features except for the x86 inline assembler (x87 is still supported though); all platform specific code has been removed. no OpenGL, no SDL, no PNG, no JPEG,.... just zlib is still required for the tkx pak file loader (and writer).
• the tkscript.zip package als includes the testfileio,sieve,testxml,hashtable and testpool examples as well as the MySQL demo plugin (src+win32 binaries) and the plugin SDK itself
• the usual tks distribution and API, i.e. bundled with OpenGL,SDL,PNG,JPEG.. will be converted to plugins soon

27Jun2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.2.0.7
• YAC: updated YAC tks plugin SDK
• YAC: stream support tested (and fixed), added yacStreamOpen*, yacStreamClose(), moved yacStream* to YAC_Object. this means that plugins can now read from pak files resp. read/write local files
• YAC: plugins may now use multiple files (just include yac_host.h once, it will (default) implement the virtual methods)
• moved FMusicXM class to a plugin ("minifmod") (btw: multiple XMs are possible now, e.g. for x-fading..)

26Jun2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.2.0.6
• added TreeNode.writeHashTable(), TreeNode.getNumNodes(), TreeNode.id property
• fix: memory leak: string constants were not deleted
• fix: memory leak: class templates were not freed correctly (delete order changed)
• fix: memory leak: some array objects (objectarray,floatarray,..) didn't call free() when destructed
• added "opengltest" plugin (just draws a simple object from NeHe's lesson 5.

25Jun2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.2.0.5
• AudioMixer.onAudioRender signal is now called correctly, not 15 times in a single render pass..
• added TreeNode class
• added String.parseXML() - creates a Tree(Node) where each object is a HashTable which holds the attributes. the parser does not do DTD checking, it just validates the element nesting.

22Jun2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.2.0.4
• fix: AudioMixer.closeDSP() now works correctly if automatically called (added mutex)
• AudioMixer.onAudioFrame() now works correctly (forgot to uncomment some lines...d'oh)
• added AudioMixer.onAudioRender(FloatArray _dst) signal for scripted audio generators
• removed TTF related command line options
• internal: rewrote entire source for YAC interface
• updated MySQL/test plugin to work with the latest plugin interface definition
• yac: added YAC_Host::yacEvalFunction() (use in conjunction with yacRegisterSignal()) (untested)

20Jun2003

• plugin interface cleanup, new namespace YAC (Yet Another Component object model). a tks update which implements the YAC host interface will follow this weekend

18Jun2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.2.0.3
• added TKS_MODULE_PATH registry key and environment variable.
• added support for "mod:" resource in project file (tkp) (used to refer to the local site module depository)
• added -mp, --modulepath command line parameter
• added -pp, --pluginpath command line parameter
• fixed ObjectArray class member template bug; i.e. class CTest {Texture textures[];} should work properly now
• added tcint(String), tcfloat(String) (ups)
• finished tksarray_ interface support for Texture,IntArray,FloatArray,ClassArray,ObjectArray,PointerArray,VectorArray
• pluginengine: changed tksarray_alloc() parameter/return type
• pluginengine: added newAPIObject(), deleteAPIObject()
• pluginengine: added tkstate_bind(), tkstate_unbind() interface (used by DisplayList and Texture ATM)
• unsupported object-int, object-float type combinations are now reported (e.g. Texture t=0;)
• JIT: apiobj.member+=scalar; should work correctly now
• JIT: added operator support for object-object expressions (<=,<,==,!=,>,>=);
• JIT: added support for delete (myobject<=0;)
• moved MySQLConnection, MySQLRow classes to a "mysql" plugin
• moved Font class to "pixelfont.tks" module
• web: moved tkx/,tkp/ files to tkx-old/,tkp-old/
• web: added modules section
• updated examples because of the "new" PixelFont module (uses the same interface as the old c++ API class, just the project files need to be updated: insert a "code/pixelfont.tks"="mod:pixelfont.tks" line and download the pixelfont module and put it in your $TKS_MODULE_PATH directory)
• modules will be included in a tkx package (in contrary to plugins which need to be downloaded if the tkx requires them)
• FreeType2 TTF support will soon return as a "ft2font" plugin

16Jun2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.2.0.1
• plugin interface: added stream seek and byteorder constants
• plugin interface: changed sU16 class_ID to sU32
• plugin interface: changed sU8 byte_order to sU32
• plugin interface: changed sBool type to unsigned int (instead of signed char)
• plugin interface: added documentation for Object class
• example plugin: added operator+constant test (see tks-plugin-sdk.zip)
• added HashTable::delete(String _key)
• new Win32 SDK release 0.2.0.2
• plugin registry: added registry key (HKLM\Software\TKS\TKS_PLUGIN_PATH) and environment variable $TKS_PLUGIN_PATH which store the default "site" plugin directory. plugins are first searched in the current working directory, then in TKS_PLUGIN_PATH. the environment variable takes precedence of the registry key
• the registry key is created by the installer
• new Linux SDK release 0.2.0.2
• updated the tks-plugin-sdk.zip. it has just been tested successfully with gcc+linux (forgot to define the api export macro for non-visualc compilers..)

15Jun2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.2.0.0
• fixed Mouse grab/ungrab "warp" bug
• good news everyone: added a plugin interface
• note: ATM you'll have to place your plugin.dll in the project directory; this will change asap

08Jun2003

• [blog]hi y'all! currently I'm quiet busy with my real life job but I just got the promised plugin interface up and running (i.e. you can bind arbitrary c(++) (!!) APIs to the script engine and its really easy :) :) ) ...guess it will probably take some days until the next release, though .. stay tuned and ..happy hacking![/blog]

26May2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.1.0.5
• OMG! found a big fat bug in the DoubleArgExpr::Compile method: i<op>i and f<op>f expressions were always optimized to siquad, sfquad opcodes...d'oh
• class members are now handled a little bit faster in the JIT (maybe ~30%)
• i recently updated from sd to ddr memory and i'd like to note that the stupid (totally synthetic) benchmark program (do not see table below) shows quiet different results now (in favor of java). who cares anyway, this is just a script engine (maybe something like a beetle enhanced with a v8 engine :) )
• converted a small example (Eratosthenes Sieve prime number calculation) I just found for the dscript programming language to tks. (look at that more real-life "benchmark" here (btw: I noticed the optimization bug when I tested around with that example..)
• new Win32 SDK release 0.1.0.5c
• bugfix for JIT classmemberexpr (without explicite object)..
• bugfix for SpriteCon class: the "retrovaders" game now works again...
• new Win32 SDK release 0.1.0.5d
• bugfix in DoubleArgExpr::Compile: i<div>f expression was compiled to i<add>f
• bugfix in expr. optimizer: i<op>constfloat expression is now properly optimized
• bugfix in ConstVal::forceHybrid: String constants now always force hybrid execution since a new String object has to be allocated (not handled by JIT)

22May2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.1.0.4b
• fixed a small but annoying FPU inline assembler bug; added "st, st" argument combination
• added "plasma5" and "plasma4" examples which demonstrate a hw (gpu) accelerated radial blur using an insane number of overdraws of a sw (fpu) accelerated plasma effect.

15May2003

• new Linux SDK release 0.1.0.4

14May2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.1.0.4
• some JIT apicall speed optimizations (~10%) the speed could still be at least doubled if a)the API was written in "C" rather than "C++" (virtual calls take a lot of time..) b) object i/o wasn't wrapped in "C" functions (the call opcode kills the current cacheline I guess..)...however, nothing beats a good optimizing c++ compiler and c++ sources can also be quiet portable
• updated the table below (Java apiv.neg() speed corrected, TKS ticks updated)
• caught a cold ..great :(

13May2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.1.0.3
• added JIT support for ClassArray,StringArray,PointerArray,VectorArray,ObjectArray assign statements/expressions

11May2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.1.0.2
• fixed bugs introduced by release 0.1.0.1 (in terms of the JIT compiler)
• added Vector methods: rotateAdd(), rotateInvAdd()
• this release has the homegrown runtime object type checking disabled (eats up ~15% cpu time)
• added JIT fastpath for ClassMemberExpr (

  myclass.mymember

  )
• added JIT fastpath for ClassMemberAssign (

  myclass.mymember=rvalue;

  )
• function MyFun(int _a, int _r, int _g, int _s) compile { /**...**/ } works;
• (internal) code cleanup
• hey aphexl: your MDS loader/shader now runs in 34fps (instead of 6) and there still is plenty of room for optimization left! :)

10May2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.1.0.1 "fiReBiRD"
• tested the matrix classes and corrected some things: the Matrix.init(), initDeg() methods now rotate _on_ the x/y/z axis'
• updated crparticles, nehelesson5, particlesha, testjpeg, juliaattractor, testcoll, procmesh, procmeshtorus, procmeshtorusmod, torus, vertexthroughput examples
• added EditableMesh methods: getGLVertices(), getGLNormals(), getGLTexCoords(), getGLColors(), getIndices()
• added FloatArray methods: glVertexPointer(), glNormalPointer(), glTexCoordPointer(), glColorPointer3(), glColorPointer4()
• improved ivector,vector,vector4 expression (added fastpath for constant expressions)
• removed GLMatrix::rotatev() (it is now called rotate() and accepts both Matrix and Vector arguments)
• removed another curiosity: if the first argument of a method is int it may *no longer* be omitted (e.g. Texture.clear())
• fixed bug in JIT glClearDepth() (now uses 64bit double arg instead of 32bit float which caused a breakpoint exception)
• extended JIT and added support for Objects ( compile { Vector v<=vector(1,2,3); /*...*/ } ) (this one's ql:) )
• added hybrid JIT execution model which means that finally all parser nodes (..except "class","function","return") can be included in JIT blocks. this speeds up script execution (not drawing ofcourse..) by 10 up to 2000%
• have a lot of fun (until the linux version gets updated (probably later today))

07May2003

• new Linux SDK release 0.0.5.8b
• new Win32 SDK release 0.0.5.8b
• Matrix.init(), Matrix.rotate(), Matrix.rotateInv() bugs/transpose-problems now fixed (hopefully)
• the Color API changed a bit
• updated a lot of examples (was necessary because of the Matrix/Vector/Color API changes)
• added Matrix methods: initDeg(), rotate(), rotateInv(), mulInv(), initIJK(), initIJKInv()
• added Vector methods: rotateXCW(), rotateXCCW(), rotateYCW(), rotateYCCW(), rotateZCW(), rotateZCCW(), glVertex(), glNormal(), glColor(), glColorGamma()
• added Vector4 methods: glVertex(), glColor(), glColorGamma(), interpolCubic2D()
• added FloatArray methods: peekv(), pokev()
• added MeshIndex methods: init(), setColori(), setColor4f(), setColorv()
• added MeshTriangle.init()
• added MeshInstance.setLocalLightPos()
• updated the MeshInstance shaders a bit (SHA_FASTPHONG now works properly..) (see examples/test3ds)
• internal: removed (internal) restriction of the c++ API that did not allow more than 32 methods per class (can now handle 256)
• removed TextureMod* classes, the methods are now part of the Texture class
• added vector4(x,y,z,w) expression
• Stream.getI16() now extends the sign to 32 bits

• class MyClass { /** ... **/ }
  MyClass mc;
  function myfun(MyClass _mc) { /** ... **/ }
  myfun(mc);
  

  class argument in variable argument list fixed
• updated guitools.tks

02May2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.0.5.7
• rewrote parameter handling; functions/methods can now have up to 256 parameters (instead of 4)
• added variable declaration lists, e.g.

  int i,j,k;

  or

  Vector v,w=vector(1,2,3),z<=v;

• added Triangle::string property
• added ForcePoint::string property
• using objects in string expressions will now convert object pointers to strings, e.g.

  Vector v; trace "v="+v;

• memory usage optimized; user class templates are now created on demand (which saves ~3-4 mb..); string constants are now cached (a string copy was created for every occurence of a string). you can check the memory usage of a script by running tks interactively (-i, --interactive).
• interactive mode: script engine is now deleted when application exits (not when re-running the script)
• updated files/tks-examples.zip

30Apr2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.0.5.6
• 3DS textured object loading was broken because of a recent optimization (see 'walther' example. thanks to foggy for the textured 3DS test model)
• examples/lang/testfileio.tks (de-)serialization example was broken ("str"+fp.position.string returned a syntax error..) (fixed this one some months ago on another computer and forgot to copy back the changes :P)
• MeshMaterial::setTexture fixed (forgot to set a flag which hints the MeshInstance "SHA_NORMAL" shader to actually bind the texture)

25Apr2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.0.5.5f
• fixed a few runtime bugs (which even caused a crash because of unresolved xrefs..)
• added Mesh::rotate(Vector), Mesh::rotate(Matrix)

24Apr2003

• rewrote the collision detection in the pong example (uses a sphere and a ray collision now)

22Apr2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.0.5.5d
• new Linux SDK release 0.0.5.5d
• added Math::distancePointPlane()
• numlock key modifier is now filtered
• Vector::unit(), Vector::unitScale(): removed a hack that clamped small values (<0.0000001..) to 0
• updated the pong example (the collision detection code has been improved)

18Apr2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.0.5.5b
• yea, that's the second release this day..:)
• AudioMixer::swapstereo fixed
• panning/polyphony (a.o.) fixed (superclass members were shadowed..)
• AudioSample::repeat fixed (the sample always looped)
• fixed x-ref resolve bugs in singlearg/triplearg expr (forgot to propagate)
• added audio playback to 3d-pong mini game (see examples, please get a fresh tks-setup.exe)

18Apr2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.0.5.5
• object operators fixed (e.g. Vector ==, <=, !=...) (
• more collision detection tools (e.g. MeshInstance::setCollisionMatrix, Math::reflect, Math::raySphereCollision, Math::sphereSphereCollision..)
• Matrix::load, Matrix::store now work (and they can load/store the translation vector as well..)
• fixed bug that could cause a crash in the error message printing (references to deleted variable name strings)
• added the very first alpha release of a 3D pong game example (the paddle is an arbitrary convex mesh loaded from a 3ds file)
• if you're a looking for a free 3D object editor that can import/export 3DS files then have a look at Anim8or by R. Steven Glanville. (it uses the win32 API).

10Apr2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.0.5.4b
• bug fixing (missing class initializers that caused a crash when object was deleted), SceneGraph, Vector)
• int MeshInstance::getCollidingTriangles(Triangle _t1, Triangle _t2, int _mspace) fixed, sorry about that
• AudioMixer::openDSP() fixed (returned random value)

08Apr2003

• new Linux SDK release 0.0.5.4
• new Win32 SDK release 0.0.5.4
• added an interactive mode (-i, --interactive) which may increase turn-around times by up to 400%, all you can do right now is either 'q'uit or 'r'e-run the application. simple but effective :)
• fixed a double-free bug in the FloatArray::delete method
• the clamp/wrap statements now work with objects, too. example:

  Vector v=vector(1,2,3); clamp v vector(-1,-1,-1) vector(1,1,1); trace v.string;

03Apr2003

• added a simple "fire" demo which demonstrates how to directly program the VM. greetz to h3rty ..3:00 am hack :)
• please update your tks binary! i fixed a small bug regarding fpu register indices (st(1) became st(2) in the inline assembler..) and found some other bugs which i'll fix within the next days

01Apr2003

• added a tks syntax highlighter for the ConTEXT editor which seems to be a nice ide for tks. i also used it to generate html pages of some example sources. a replacement for the rusty old emacs ?! let's see.. :)

30Mar2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.0.5.3
• drfps.tks rewritten to Debug.tks
• cleaned up examples, added "view source" to the examples page
• rewrote Envelope class, added ENV_COSINE, ENV_QUADRATIC, ENV_CUBIC, ENV_QUINTIC interpolation algorithms
• added testenvelope.tks example
• updated to SDL 1.2.5

28Mar2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.0.5.2
• fixed bug concerning undeclared variables
• added bindkey / unbindkey statement (can bind hotkeys like .e.g "ctrl-f" to pressed/release script sequences, e.g. "bindkey VKEY_UP direction=-1; if(direction==-1) direction=0;"..see the new example.tks that comes with the win32 installer

24Mar2003

• the latest (daily, weekly) build of the win32 tks executable can be downloaded here. the zip file/executable is _not_ generated automatically. it might contain fixes not included in the latest "install" version as well as some (yet undocumented) features.
• I've seen a lot of page-views to the documentation pages recently; I'd be very happy about some more feedback! just drop a line to fli@tkscript.de..cu
• modified the "procmeshtorus" example a bit, grab the tks files here procmeshtorusmod_lo.tkx and here procmeshtorusmod_hi.tkx. they should be running at vsync(>350fps) (lo) resp. ~25fps on a tbird1Ghz/geforce2gts (hi). source is available here.

26Feb2003

• new Win32 SDK release 0.0.5.1
• added EditableMesh class
• added MeshMaterial, MeshTriangle, MeshIndex classes
• added joystick support, Joystick class
• added Viewport::onResize event
• Image::loadPNG: support for two channel 8bit GIMP grayscale images
• added MeshInstance SHA_FASTPHONG2, SHA_SPHEREMAP, SHA_SPHEREMAPDL, SHA_HIDDENLINE shaders
• added Math::c32Blend(), Math::c32Multiply()
• almost full support for OpenGL 1.1 API, also in JIT compiler (e.g. render2texture, texcoordgen..)
• OpenGL function names are now case insensitive
• fixed lighting calculation in examples, added sphere-mouse camera
• removed AudioChannel class, some internal restructuring of the sound engine
• added FPS::getPrecision
• () are now optional when possible (e.g. trace "hello, world."; )
• numerous bug fixes and improvements (too tired to list them all)
• improved API and language documentation, improved/added new examples