Release Processing 4.0.2 · processing/processing4

Revision 1287 – 24 November 2022

🦃 Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃

Fixing more regressions and other steps backward found since the 4.0 release. Enjoy!

the big ones

OpenGL apps now work with macOS Ventura, once again thanks to @jaegonlee. #544
Library version number parsing wasn't ignoring comments properly, so libraries that followed the template closely were showing The version number for “…” is not a number. #586, #553
The Updates tab of the Contribution Manager was throwing error messages about this.progressBar. #567
fullScreen() with pixelDensity(2) was broken with the default renderer. On startup, the sketch would report Display -1 does not exist, returning 1 for displayDensity(-1). #487
JSSC update for M1/M2 from @sampottinger #525, #577

After creating 26 sketches, the “take a break” message still showed up after restarting Processing. #582
With multiple users sharing a machine, Processing would not work properly for the second user due to a problem with the temporary directory. #549
Added explanation for how to fix Processing when a user disallows access to the Documents folder on macOS. #581
Fixed an infinite loop that could be caused by running out of options for a sketch naming scheme.
When calling random() on a list (now choice()) with no elements, it would throw a weird Exception. Now it throws a more descriptive exception.

Contributions from the community!

Loading SVG file was giving Illegal base64 character 20 encoding error. Fixed thanks to @jaegonlee and @vepo. #592, #599
Updated Catalan translation thanks to @trikaphundo. #550, #554
Updates to the Spanish translation, also from @trikaphundo! #552, #574
A couple fixes for the Ukranian language strings from @rzats. #585
@LesleyWagner fixed the vertical placement of top elements in the Manager window. #520, #539
Preprocessor fix from @sampottinger for function/variable "does not exist" errors reported when defining a class without setup() or draw(). #579, #597

Added a choice() method to the XxxxList classes, which returns a random value from the list. Similarly removeChoice() removes a random element from the list and returns the value.
Also added a choice() method that returns random integers. So int value = choice(10) is a shorthand way of saying int value = (int) random(10)
Removed the choice() (formerly random()) method from the XxxxList classes that took a PApplet object for its random number seed/generator. Just feels like overkill at this point.

Using more Java 17 syntax in the code. No plans to really scrub everything to change the syntax over, just a matter of cleaning things up as we go.
Fixed a potential casting problem with Platform and DefaultPlatform. Should have been unreachable, but fixed anyway.
Brought back getCodeIndex() for GUI Builder Tool… then removed it again. #545, #596

Added a Translations page to the 4.x wiki, which is update to the Localization page from the 3.x repository.
Posted an explanation of how to create a naming.json file so you can set up your own sketch naming schemes.