MPF-GMC Changelog

0.1.3

Upcoming, on main branch as of 10 Jan 2025

BREAKING CHANGES

A few GMC nodes derived from Node2D have been converted to derive from Control. All scenes that use the impacted nodes must be manually updated to re-define the GMC nodes. Instructions and questions can be found on the MPF Google Forum. The impacted nodes are:
- MPFCarousel
- MPFChildPool
- MPFConditional
- MPFConditionalChildren
- MPFEventHandler

Improvements

MPFVariable will now subscribe and update machine variables in realtime
Service mode improved handling of inputs and keyboard emulation
Keyboard events in gmc.cfg now support kwargs

Bug Fixes

Fix MPFVariable.initialize_empty not properly behaving
Fix GMC panel options showing enabled but being undefined (disabled)
Fix MPFConditional crashing on player 4
Fix Service mode crashing if a switch has no number: defined
Catch possible race condition on BCP client shutdown causing a crash

0.1.2

27 December 2024

Features

Support for RGB DMD displays with new class MPFDMDDisplay
Specify a BCP port with the gmc.cfg option bcp_port=XXXX
BCPServer method send_bytes() for byte transmission

Improvements

Don't auto-pause video previews in editor
Renamed "Autoloads" to "Globals" in docs per Godot 4.3 change
Removed WIP show creator addon from repo
Exclude root files from ZIP bundle to avoid file conflicts when installing from Asset Library
Added this CHANGELOG file

Bug Fixes

Fix MPFConditional ref to machine variables
Handle MPF inconsistency in num vs player_num kwarg in player_added event