LÖVE 0.7.0 Game Slave released

[bartbes]

Generations have come and gone. Empires have risen and fallen. Mountains have been ground to dust by the unstoppable passage of time. But finally, through great perseverance (and a last minute save by TechnoCat), we have:

LÖVE 0.7.0 - Game Slave
Get it at the bottom of this post! NOW!

0.7.0 brings lots of exciting new features. Framebuffers, for rendering to places other than the screen. Threads, for true multithreaded programming. New callbacks, like love.quit and love.focus. A text-origin change from lower- to upper-left. And about a million different bugs have been squashed! You can see everything we've done in the changelog, as seen below.

We hope you enjoy it! Go out and make beautiful LÖVE!

Changelog:

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LOVE 0.7.0 [Game Slave]
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  * Added love.thread.
  * Added love.font.
  * Added love.graphics.Framebuffer.
  * Added Source:play, Source:pause, etc.
  * Added Source:isStatic().
  * Added get/setPosition, get/setVelocity, and get/setDirection to Source.
  * Added get/setGroupIndex to CircleShape and PolygonShape.
  * Added Font:getWrap.
  * Added identity field to love.conf.
  * Added love.quit callback.
  * Added love.focus callback.
  * Added extra meter parameter to love.physics.newWorld.
  * Added love.graphics.setIcon.
  * Added way to make the window desktop resolution.
  * Added subtractive and multiplicative blend modes.
  * Added body:getAllowSleeping.
  * Added shape:getBody.
  * Added love.filesystem.FileData for public usage.
  * Added base64 support for love.filesystem.FileData.
  * Added table support for love.graphics.setColor and love.graphics.setBackgroundColor.
  * Added love.graphics.hasFocus().
  * Added ?/init.lua to the loader.

  * Fixed the debug module not being an upvalue of the error handlers. (you can now override debug)
  * Fixed some cases when love.audio.pause and friends, were acting on everything, not just the passed Source.
  * Fixed setFixedRotation enabling other flags.
  * Fixed a bug in the loader (for require).
  * Fixed ParticleSystem::setSprite not retaining the new image.
  * Fixed setMode removing images settings (wrapping, filters).
  * Fixed shape:getBody, it's now exposed for LÖVE usage.
  * Fixed DistanceJoint:getType() returning "circle" - it now returns "distance".
  * Fixed SpriteBatches being unaffected by setColor
  * Fixed the audio bug.
  * Fixed invalid FSAA values crashing LÖVE.
  * Fixed a bunch of compiler warnings.
  * Fixed OS X not properly using UTIs for .love files.
  * Fixed the modplug decoder not properly handeling files that fail to load.
  * Fixed a memory leak in setFont.
  * Fixed bug where errors in threads wouldn't get picked up by demand.
  * Fixed part of the bug with newlines when scaling text (rotating still messes up the lines).
  * Fixed the bug where newImageFont would try to created ImageData out of ImageData.
  * Fixed error handler not resetting the blend mode.

  * Changed fonts, they're now po2 safe.
  * Changed the traceback in the error screen.
  * Changed font origin to top-left.
  * Changed linux save dir location to obey to Freedesktop.org's XDG specs. (~/.local/share/love by default.)

  * Removed font functions from love.graphics.
  * Removed love.physics.newWorld(w, h). Use love.physics.newWorld(x1, y1, x2, y2) instead.

Download links: (also available on front page)

• Windows installer: http://bitbucket.org/rude/love/download ... in-x86.exe
• Windows zip: http://bitbucket.org/rude/love/download ... in-x86.zip
• Ubuntu 10.04 x86: http://bitbucket.org/rude/love/download ... 1_i386.deb
• Ubuntu 10.04 x64: http://bitbucket.org/rude/love/download ... _amd64.deb
• Ubuntu 10.10 x86: http://bitbucket.org/rude/love/download ... 1_i386.deb
• Ubuntu 10.10 x64: http://bitbucket.org/rude/love/download ... _amd64.deb
• Mac OSX 10.5+ UB: http://bitbucket.org/rude/love/download ... osx-ub.zip
• Linux src: http://bitbucket.org/rude/love/download ... src.tar.gz
• Ubuntu ppa (10.04 and 10.10): https://launchpad.net/~bartbes/+archive/love-stable

[thelinx]

* furiously humps everything in sight *

[kikito]

Awesome!

[qubodup]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaay!

I noticed a fun bug: if there is a dir called 'love' in the dir where I run 'love', I get an error:

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$ cd 
$ mkdir love
$ love
Error: [string "boot.lua"]:292: No code to run
Your game might be packaged incorrectly
Make sure main.lua is at the top level of the zip
stack traceback:
	[C]: in function 'error'
	[string "boot.lua"]:292: in function <[string "boot.lua"]:217>
	[C]: in function 'xpcall'

(Arch Linux 32bit)

[Robin]

For those not aware yet: RichText is a library that makes it easy to have formatted text with images in them. I would like your help to make it even better, especially with the 'experimental' branch.

For those who love security, there's a fork that is kept up-to-date with the main branch, called Security Enhanced LÖVE, or SELÖVE. It needs binaries, I'm planning to put a PPA for Ubuntu up at Launchpad, and Linux binaries on BitBucket, but that still leaves Mac and Windows users out in the cold. (And arguably, Windows users need SELÖVE the most.)

[bartbes]

I noticed a fun bug: if there is a dir called 'love' in the dir where I run 'love'

:O
So now I know where that came from, thanks for reporting, shouldn't be too hard to fix.

[pygy]

I get an immediate crash at startup, apparently, the 32bit version of freetype is problematic (OS X 10.6, Core Duo)

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Code Type:       X86 (Native)
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.6.5 (10H574)
Dyld Error Message:
  Library not loaded: @rpath/FreeType.framework/Versions/A/FreeType
  Referenced from: /Users/Pygy/Downloads/love.app/Contents/MacOS/love
  Reason: image not found

[bmelts]

Try redownloading the .zip. It should be fixed now.

[pygy]

The file linked from the home page is still the old one. I cleaned the cache, but no dice.

http://bitbucket.org/rude/love/download ... osx-ub.zip

[com_1]

Downloaded and Installed - "love-0.7.0-win-x86"
Try to run but fails. (pops up an error)

I'm the only one, or at someone too so the same problem ?