beta 4 -> beta 5 changelog

[Dennis DeSantis]

Known issues:

- Documentation is currently only in English.

Please note that the Lessons, Reference Manual and Info Texts are also in beta. In addition to reporting bugs about the software, please report any documentation bugs (missing or incorrect feature explanations, typos, etc.)


Changes in Live

Fixed the slow exception logging which caused Live to hang for 1-2 minutes after loading old Max devices (and on other occasions)

Fixed crash bug when copying a device

Fixed crash when changing Map Mode on Midi Mapping

Better fix for crash when changing buffer size

Fixed live.path (path observation, non existing path handling, space trimming)

Improved MfL fallback lesson text

Share support improvements for Max devices

Better string handling at LiveAPI (like Track names etc.)

Fix for crash when deleting a device

Make it possible to load Live 1 and 1.1 documents again

MfL cleanups and refactorings

6 bugfixes merged from 8.0, like

- Mac: Context menu and menu open at the same time

- Possible hangup on start in Mac OS 10.6

- Copy/paste automation for multiple lanes doesn't work in some cases

9 other bugfixes, improvements, cleanups and refactorings not related to MfL, like

- Add Crop Clip to MIDI Clip's Detail View

- Fixed the EQ3 gain pot problem

- Selection partly lost after moving a clip selection including a Group Track slot

- Fixed buffer overflow that prevented the view Browser from opening on the Mac.



Changes in Max

Patches with --- in symbols no longer lose the three dashes upon collect and save

live object has been added to the object list

live.menu: ignores the background alpha when the popup menu is displayed

Pressing l in an empty patcher creates a "live.*" object

Disabled Max devices now listen and send automation just like standard Live devices

Fixed cases of dropped events when using live.remote~ in the editor

live.step now has an extra_thickness attribute to set the thickness of the extra bars

midiin: no longer sends a 0 after aftertouch and program change messages

live.text can display ints and floats as text

live.step: can now restore the 16th sequence properly

line~: no longer crashes if infinite duration is passed in via ITM

jsliveapi: it is now possible to initialize a LiveAPI object from an id. The id property is also now settable.

live.observer, live.remote~, live.path, live.param~ now have a help file

Objects (such as button and message) which trigger a dialog in mousedown now will receive the mouseup and thus won't get stuck drawn in the down state

If message repeatedly triggers dialog it will no longer keep shifting down

Mac: reading in corrupted PNG images no longer crashes

live.api: fixed problem whereby observable properties of type String weren't properly reported to Max (via live.observer or jsliveapi)

ObjectHelpLauncher displays all the categories

Function: update pattr values after receiving a clear message

Scrollbar: properly displays user specified background color

[posssu]

I was wondering it would be possible for Ableton to add the alias for "Programs"-folder to all the Live-dmg-files in the future?

I'm sure 99% of the mac users use the Programs-folder to install their programs to so it would save a little time if one could just drag the new Live-folder to the alias-icon right next to it instead of expanding the current dmg-window and then dragging the new Live-folder to Programs at the Finder side-bar.

It's small, but it still makes the installing-experience a bit more invisible. When using the betas this becomes more concrete, since they appear more often than real updates.

[Forge.]

I was wondering it would be possible for Ableton to add the alias for "Programs"-folder to all the Live-dmg-files in the future?

I'm sure 99% of the mac users use the Programs-folder to install their programs to so it would save a little time if one could just drag the new Live-folder to the alias-icon right next to it instead of expanding the current dmg-window and then dragging the new Live-folder to Programs at the Finder side-bar.

It's small, but it still makes the installing-experience a bit more invisible. When using the betas this becomes more concrete, since they appear more often than real updates.

I've often thought this, but I'm used to the CMD+N shortcut now - when you are looking at the extracted folder it means Finder is active so the finder shortcuts work

CMD+N creates a new finder window and the apps folder is visible

[S4racen]

Ok so i've downloaded both the new beta's and Max appears to be broken telling me in the device i've started to build that i need to configure the path (which is correct) in preferences and to download the latest version of Max which i've done...

Am i missing something??

Cheers
D

[S4racen]

I tried all sorts of different things and then it just worked so i can't even tell what it was that finally fixed it....

Cheers
D