Major release of xlights/Nutcracker: 3.2.0. Non rgb lights

[smeighan]

Matt Brown has again made a content rich release for us.

 

There are some major technical changes in this release

 

WARNING!! Techno speak, just skip this section

.. We are now compiling using wxWidgets 2.9.5. 

.. We are setting a new compiler option, CXXFLAGS="-std=gnu++0x" 

.. What does this mean? xLights will be cleaner with minimal memory leaks. xLights already is very slim. It uses < 50mbytes for 20K channels of data to ..     either create effects or to run shows. For users this is another step to keep xlights to be a rock solid program.

END OF WARNING!!. Back to normal speak

 

So what is in 3.2.0?

You can now build models out of non rgb lights or out of dumb rgb lights.

 

Here are the release notes

 

3.2.0:  Sep 09,2013 - Enhancement: (Matt). In the Model creation you can now select type of string that the model will use. There are new

string types available. You can pick non-rgb strings. These will use a single channel, For preview purposes you can

pick RED, GREEN,BLUE, WHITE as single color strings.

- Enhancement: (Matt). You can now select a string type that is strobe lights. This light will flash 3 times per second

for each bulb.

- Enhancement: (Matt). You can now pick a multi pointed star as a display element.

- Enhancement: (Matt). You can select a wreath as a display element.

 

This weeks Tutorial on Thurs, Sept 12, 7pm MST will cover the changes.

 

Thanks Matt!

 

sean

Edited September 10, 2013 by smeighan

[electrified3]

Is there a way to bring text comments over with the timing text file? I can import the timing sequence but the text comments don't come across.

[smeighan]

Is there a way to bring text comments over with the timing text file? I can import the timing sequence but the text comments don't come across.

which file type are u using, audacity label files (8.txt) or someone elses xml file?