Release Notes/2022.40000/next

These are the release notes for our upcoming release. Welcome to the "insider club"!

Known Issues

Engine COMP - Added 'Go To Done' parameter, and 'On Done' parameter to determine behavior, plus onDone() callback, plus "done" channel, plus "goToDone()" Python command.
Engine COMP - Added 'Pre-Roll' parameter.
Engine COMP - Added parameters and Info CHOP channels for finer control of the TouchEngine process lifetime.
Engine COMP - Added Info CHOP channels output_cook_abs_frame, engine_absolute_frame, engine_absolute_seconds
Engine COMP - Removed 'Load and Start' option from new 'On Engine COMP Load' parameter because it conflicts with 'Start when Initialized' which can be used instead.
Engine COMP - Report errors on the loaded component. Use the MMB pop-up info on the component to view.

Text COMP / Text TOP - New options for selecting fonts via a new 'Typeface' parameter instead of the previous 'Bold' and 'Italics' parameters.

Noise TOP - Added 'Derivative (slope)' toggle to get the gradient of the noise in the RGB channels. Only works in monochrome mode.
Video Device Out TOP - Added support for 12-bit output on Deltacast devices.

Timeline CHOP - Added parameter to drive timeline time with a timecode object.
Timer CHOP - Active toggle expanded to: Never / Always / While Running
Timer CHOP - New Active option: 'While Playing' only cooks if any timers are active *and* Play is enabled.
Timer CHOP - 'Defer Parm Changes' controls whether or not parameter changes take affect immediately or after the next init/start cycle.

Trigger CHOP - Added menu option 'Update once per Cycle' to update trigger shape parameters only once each cycle.
Table DAT fill features.
Insert DAT
- Added rows and cols via cell expressions
- Added 'Replace if Duplicate Name' toggle to replace existing column/row names if new ones have the same name.

SOP operators now support directly saving contents as the following formats; dae, 3ds, dxf, obj (in addtion to fbx).
Blend SOP - Fixed crash when blend weights reached 0.

ParGroup.createSequence(ParGroup2), ParGroup.destroySequence()
- p1.createSequnce(p2) Creates a sequence between p1..p2, appending 1 to each name.
- destroySequence() removes all created blocks, and renames ParGroup names back to original.

App Class.systemFolder - New member that contains the installation folder for TouchDesigner system files.
ListCOMP Class - Added .dropRow .dropCol members. The current row/col about to be dropped over.
PanelCOMP Class - Added .dropReady The current state of the drop operation. True when the drop will be accepted

TimerCHOP Class.playingTimecode/cumulativeTimecode - Has been changed to return a tdu.Timecode object rather than a string
run function. First argument can now be an optional function instead of a string. This can be easier to work with rather than constructing an executable line of code with embedded quotes.

       run( lambda: print('A') )
       run( lambda x: print(x), 'B' )
       run( print, 'C', 'D', 'E')

Palette:TDVS Recorder - First commit for TDVS ( a location for general video server components ). This first component is the recorder component which wraps a Movie File Out TOP for easier recording and encoding of videos.
Palette:TDVS Recorder - Improved menu tracking for bound dynamic menus. Also timeline rate is matched correctly to movie rate when match movie is selected.
Palette:TDVS Recorder - Record folder set to desktop and tried to improve default settings. Also added improved filename generator using extension.

CHOP to TOP - Fixed 16-bit float formats not working.
Nvidia Denoise TOP / Nvidia Background TOP - Updated to Nvidia Video Effects library version 0.7.2
Logic CHOP - 'Convert Input' menu indexing fixed.
Lookup CHOP - Added 'Extend Condition' menus with options for Copy From Input and the standard extend options found elsewhere ie. (Hold, Cycle, etc).

Errors are now provided when Floating Cloud and Dongle licenses are expired for the current build.
Floating Cloud licenses won't be consumed anymore if a better Dongle license is present on the system. Furthermore, floating cloud or dongle licenses won't be used if a higher level local license is installed through the Key Manager Dialog.

BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY ISSUE - check with Greg / Rob re removing some python names which were obsoleted in 2022.Official but left in for posterity. .masterSample,.masterFrame, .running....