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muzik wrote:Since all the settings and options are split off into their own sorts of pages now, and since there's more room as a result, could the button names be expanded a bit so they're more descriptive of what they do?

muzik wrote:Zooming out farther than 1.0 makes patterns with invalid rules just completely disappear

muzik wrote:I think the title bar at the top takes up a bit much space.

• Settings menu buttons are now more descriptive
• new Settings menu Display setting: Auto Grid (hotkey Ctrl+"G")
  • turns on grid lines when switching to Draw and Select modes
  • turns off grid lines when switching to Pan mode
• new Settings menu Pattern action: New Pattern (hotkey Alt+"N")
  • creates a new empty pattern
• new Settings menu Info setting: Relative Gen (hotkey Shift+"G")
  • when #CXRLE Gen is defined toggles the generation display between Absolute and Relative
• State Slider now hidden for Generations patterns when states fit on display
• selecting a drawing state with hotkeys Ctrl+"0" to Ctrl+"9" now scrolls State Selection UI to show new state
• PopUp Viewer scales (is larger) on high DPI devices
• improved handling when plugin included multiple times

• ignore trailing # for string substitutions
• fixed rendering with layers

• fixed title bar sizing
• handle conflicting accesskey attributes

muzik wrote:Is there/can there be a way to toggle on and off the debug button pressing information that was present in the recent debug builds?

muzik wrote:Also, for greyed out buttons and sliders; it might be a good idea to display some sort of text when attempting to use them to clarify why they're inaccessible.

muzik wrote:Despite both of these rulestrings encoding to my knowledge an identical rule in the same algorithm, only the second one actually works

rowett wrote:Build 393 is now live on the Forums and LifeWiki

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• rules where n0 = 15 and n15 = 0 are replaced with equivalent rules that don't strobe

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x = 16, y = 16, rule = M15,13,7,12,14,10,9,1,11,6,5,2,3,4,8,0
14$31bobobo2bobob2o$28b2ob2o3bobo2b2o$30b2ob3o3b2o$30b2obo3bo2b3o$28b
2o4bo3b2o$30b3o2bobo4b2o$28bob3o3bobo3bo$28b2o4b2o3bobo$28bo2bobo3bo2b
4o$28b3o5b2ob2obo$31b2o5bo2bo$28bob5obobob4o$29b2o3b2o3b2o$28bob2obo4b
2o3bo$29b3ob2o3bo3bo$28bo3b2o5b2o2bo!

x = 16, y = 16, rule = M0,2,8,3,1,5,6,14,4,9,10,13,12,11,7,15|M0,8,4,3,2,5,6,11,1,9,10,14,12,7,13,15
14$31bobobo2bobob2o$28b2ob2o3bobo2b2o$30b2ob3o3b2o$30b2obo3bo2b3o$28b
2o4bo3b2o$30b3o2bobo4b2o$28bob3o3bobo3bo$28b2o4b2o3bobo$28bo2bobo3bo2b
4o$28b3o5b2ob2obo$31b2o5bo2bo$28bob5obobob4o$29b2o3b2o3b2o$28bob2obo4b
2o3bo$29b3ob2o3bo3bo$28bo3b2o5b2o2bo!

• do not dim display if settings menu open and UI is hidden because of Auto Hide UI
• Margolus alternate rules were the wrong way round
• fix colour box alignment in Help when window scaled

A for awesome wrote:If this is the case, it's my understanding that the following two rules would behave identically:

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x = 16, y = 16, rule = M15,13,7,12,14,10,9,1,11,6,5,2,3,4,8,0

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x = 16, y = 16, rule = M0,2,8,3,1,5,6,14,4,9,10,13,12,11,7,15|M0,8,4,3,2,5,6,11,1,9,10,14,12,7,13,15

But that doesn't seem to be the case. It's possible I'm misunderstanding the way strobing rules work in Margolus.

1. There was a bug in LifeViewer (now fixed) which was handling the alternate rule definition in the wrong order.
2. The second part of the alternate rule definition specified is incorrect. Correct version is below.

x = 16, y = 16, rule = M0,2,8,3,1,5,6,14,4,9,10,13,12,11,7,15|M0,4,1,5,8,3,9,7,2,6,12,11,10,13,14,15
14$31bobobo2bobob2o$28b2ob2o3bobo2b2o$30b2ob3o3b2o$30b2obo3bo2b3o$28b
2o4bo3b2o$30b3o2bobo4b2o$28bob3o3bobo3bo$28b2o4b2o3bobo$28bo2bobo3bo2b
4o$28b3o5b2ob2obo$31b2o5bo2bo$28bob5obobob4o$29b2o3b2o3b2o$28bob2obo4b
2o3bo$29b3ob2o3bo3bo$28bo3b2o5b2o2bo!

wildmyron wrote:Lifeviewer is now much nicer to use on mobile.

• reverse playback for Margolus rules (hotkey "U" to toggle direction)
• toggle UI is now on hotkey Shift+"U"
• tooltips will now split at | to improve alternating rule display

• tooltips now scale with window
• graph axes now scale with window
• close Help and Errors when UI switched off

rowett wrote:

A for awesome wrote:If this is the case, it's my understanding that the following two rules would behave identically:

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x = 16, y = 16, rule = M15,13,7,12,14,10,9,1,11,6,5,2,3,4,8,0

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x = 16, y = 16, rule = M0,2,8,3,1,5,6,14,4,9,10,13,12,11,7,15|M0,8,4,3,2,5,6,11,1,9,10,14,12,7,13,15

But that doesn't seem to be the case. It's possible I'm misunderstanding the way strobing rules work in Margolus.

Thanks for the report.

There were two issues here:

1. There was a bug in LifeViewer (now fixed) which was handling the alternate rule definition in the wrong order.
2. The second part of the alternate rule definition specified is incorrect. Correct version is below.

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x = 16, y = 16, rule = M0,2,8,3,1,5,6,14,4,9,10,13,12,11,7,15|M0,4,1,5,8,3,9,7,2,6,12,11,10,13,14,15

• fixed alternate Margolus rules
• fixed a few Margolus aliases

A for awesome wrote:Unfortunately, I still think I'm not getting it.

muzik wrote:Is there an in-viewer button for reverse playback?