In the works for the next release

[Guilect]

Brutus2D has grown and become more capable than ever. As bug reports and new features have been becoming fewer lately, it appears that Brutus2D has become fairly stable, development wise. Therefore the next release will be refered to as version 1.0.

Subsequent updates are expected to be minor in detail and will increment the last digit in the revision (e.g. v1.1).

In the next release you will find:

added -- open file dialog
added -- save file dialog
added -- example of open and save dialogs to GUI folder

tweaked -- primative setline to internally handle non interger values
tweaked -- primative setcircle command to be slightly faster than before

fixed -- finally, a bug in which directory source code would look for resources after switching tabs. hooray. this had been bugging me since the beginning. And of course the solution was simple once i realized what to do.

added -- example -- vector graphics example asteroids

added -- file not found error detection to sound.loadwav command

added -- graphics.GetAngle(index)

added -- example -- Timer

added -- example -- move in the direction the image is facing

corrected -- help section of Timers (command "SplitTime" was listed incorrectly as "Split")

added -- example -- shooter

added -- example -- retrieving strings from dll API call

added -- particle FX config program

added -- in BrutusMap the ability to load in a background image

[OddChild]

YAY!!!

1.0 ) I am VERY EXCITED!!!!

[Guilect]

I have finally figured out pixel perfect collision.
This should make stevep and others happy.

Also, I am almost done putting some finishing touches on a new command "CreateImage". This allows you create an image of some dimension in memory, then draw to it (using the primative commands for example) and then use this image like any other image that could have been loaded from a file.

Additionally, there will be commands to let you draw on any image, either loaded from file or created like above.

[stevep]

Wow!! That is awesome news!!