Weekly Reports (2023)

Development Development reports
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Development Report (June 19 - 25)

Hi everyone!

Here’s the latest news regarding Synfig development:

Fixes:

  • Fixed some icons that didn’t follow the icon theme (#3109)
  • Restore “Save All” shortcut (missing since #3072) (#3110)

Code cleanup & refactoring:

  • Remove unused macro (#3111)
  • Delete old debug envvars that aren’t needed anymore (#3108)

That’s all for today! Many thanks to all contributors who help to make Synfig better!

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Development Report (June 26 - July 16)

Hey everyone!

Here’s the latest news regarding Synfig development:

Fixes:

  • Fixed missing icon for delete operations (in menu and for buttons) (#3120)

Code cleanup & refactoring:

  • Remove unused ParamDesc constructor argument (#3092)
  • Brush size increase/decrease buttons now use theme icons (#3091)
  • Change epsilon_() method to constant; remove c_str() (Time) (#3079)

That’s all for today! Many thanks to all contributors who help to make Synfig better!

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Development Report (July 17 - July 23)

Hello everyone!

Here’s the latest news regarding Synfig development:

Fixes:

  • Restored shortcuts for Cut/Copy/Paste and Quit operations (#3133)
  • Fixed an issue with snapping to the intersection of two crossing guides (#3090)
  • Fixed truncated file names in Render Dialog (#3129)
  • Fixed an issue with some tool tooltips that didn’t show the shortcut/hotkey (#3127)
  • Properly report failure on pipe creation on POSIX systems (#3045)

Code cleanup & refactoring:

  • Remove unused actions (#3132)
  • Prefer override rather virtual, spaces surrounding const (#3130)
  • Remove unneeded variable in “state_normal.cpp“ (#3123)
  • Prefer icon names rather deprecated Gtk::StockID class (#3125)
  • Remove unused cursor methods in studio::IconController class (#3126)

That’s all for today! Many thanks to all contributors who help to make Synfig better!

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Development Report (July 24 - July 30)

Hey everyone!

Here’s the latest news regarding Synfig development:

Fixes:

  • Prevent memory leak on importing PNG files (#3144)

Optimization:

  • Use reference instead of copy on range-based for loops (#3147)

Code cleanup & refactoring:

  • Make argument name consistent in method declaration and definition (#3122)
  • Add .cache folder to .gitignore (#3145)
  • Add fallthrough mark in switch cases to avoid unneeded warning (#3143)

That’s all for today! Many thanks to all contributors who help to make Synfig better!

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Is there any way to set double sequential key presses as hotkey shortcut? (like pressing “a” two times to actuate an action in synfig) :thinking:

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Development Report (July 31 - Aug 6)

Hey everyone!

Here’s the latest news regarding Synfig development:

Features:

  • Double clicking guides now opens the edit dialog (#3152)

Fixes:

  • Preferences dialog should list only themes with index.theme file (#3140)
  • Fixed build error on Debian 9, which was preventing build of Appimage packages (#3164)
  • Fixed icons in Preferences dialog in macOS/Windows (#3156)
  • Brush tool no longer crashes Synfig if no layer is selected in the dialog (#3157)

Code cleanup & refactoring:

  • Sketch filename now uses filesystem::Path (#3138)
  • Replaced Gtk::StockID in tool labels with custom implementation (#3134)
  • Add missing fallthrough mark in other switch cases (#3151)

That’s all for today! Many thanks to all contributors who help to make Synfig better!

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Development Report (Aug 7 - Aug 13)

Hey everyone!

Here’s the latest news regarding Synfig development:

Fixes:

  • Fixed current time widget color in dark theme (#3163)
  • filesystem::Path::relative_to() now works for empty paths (#3135)
  • Fixed wrong Copy and Cut icon names (#3166)

Code cleanup & refactoring:

  • Removed unnecessary “const” in internal typedef (#3168)
  • Removed unneeded special XML encoding for subtract valuenode (#3141)

That’s all for today! Many thanks to all contributors who help to make Synfig better!

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Appreciate your continuing work on Synfig! Dumb question: Are updates and fixes folded into the latest development version (1.5.1)?

Thanks

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At the moment, they are only available in Win x64 zip version that is built by Appveyor in Master branch.
You can find it here (screenshots by @ice0).

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Development Report (Aug 14 - Aug 27)

Hey everyone!

Quite an exciting week in terms of Synfig development. Here’s what we’ve got since the last report:

Features:

  • Optimized rendering of Gradient Layers (Linear, Radial, Conical, Spiral) - they are ported to Cobra render engine now (#2562)
  • Added path and button to open plugin folder in Preferences window (#3162)

Fixes:

  • Toolbox is now updated when switching document tabs (#3170)
  • Timetrack toolbar no longer disappears when closing a file (#3188)
  • Plugins system: Fixed crash when selected layers are optional and there is none (#3178)
  • Plugins system: Requesting “current_time” no longer invalidates JSON data (#3194)
  • Fixed an uninitialized value in “ValueNode_DynamicList::ListEntry::amount_at_time()” (#3081)
  • Fixed missing cstring header in png_trgt (#3171)

Code cleanup & refactoring:

  • Remove old macOS specific code (#3192)
  • Avoid g++ 13 compiler warning (#3193)
  • Fixed indentation inconsistencies in state_circle.cpp (#3183)

That’s all for today! Many thanks to all contributors who help to make Synfig better!

Edit BobSynfig:
Win64 Test Build (Link Expires 27 Sep 2023) SynfigStudio-1.5.2-testing-2023-08-27-win64-b9afc.zip

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Wait, what? I was waiting for it for years!
Who did this? Was that you, @rodolforg? Thank you so much!

Does this mean that annoying bug where you can’t render Radial blur (and I think others too) at high resolutions, like 1920x1080 is finally resolved? I gotta test it after I finish my next animation which is very soon.

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Oh, I am stoopid.
Gradients were always fine, I was talking about this issue: Radial Blur generates transparency artifacts in Rendering only, Canvas Preview is fine · Issue #2847 · synfig/synfig · GitHub

I don’t know why I thought that porting gradients will somehow fix “Radial blur”. It’s just both have “radial” in their names, so I got triggered. Sorry about that. Still, it’s nice to see more layers being ported to the new engine.

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Development Report (Aug 27 - Sep 11)

Hey everyone!

Quite an exciting two weeks in terms of Synfig development. Here’s what we’ve got since the last report:

Optimization:

  • Optimized Action_System so that the canvas only renders once during an action (#3200).

This fix gives a HUGE performance boost in scenes with linked parameters. For example, this fix reduces the rendering time of some files from ~4 minutes before to less than 0.7 seconds after. Thanks to mosasauridae for this improvement!

Fixes:

  • New MotionBlur subsampling type None now uses the correct blend method (#3201)
  • Avoid parser error of focus point on loading malformed Synfig file (#3206)
  • Selecting a handle while the Graphs window tooltip is open no longer crashes the GUI (#3207)
  • Fixed incorrect display of scaling in the Transformation parameter on Parameters Panel (#3208)

Before:

After:

  • Fixed an issue with missing preview window when there is a Layer_Sound in the project with an empty file name. (#3211)

Code cleanup & refactoring:

  • Increase the pixels per frame without render split in Target_Scanline (#3205). This ‘solves’ the issue with the Radial Blur layer for images less than or equals to 4k HD.
  • Avoid build warning due to unused parameter (#3202)

That’s all for today! Many thanks to all contributors who help to make Synfig better!

Edit BobSynfig:
Win64 Test Build (Link Expires 12 Oct 2023) SynfigStudio-1.5.2-testing-2023-09-12-win64-7040b.zip
Discourse now accepts the upload of WEBP and AVIF images.

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Development Report (Sep 12 - Sep 26)

Hey everyone!

Here’s the latest news regarding Synfig development:

Fixes:

  • Fixed missing app icon in macOS autotools build (#3223)
  • Fixed wrong button labels in the custom workspace editor (#3175)

Code cleanup & refactoring:

  • Avoid direct use of etl::handle (#3226)
  • Remove not-needed ‘using namespace etl’ (#3221)
  • Change type of “filename” variable in Identifier() class to a “filesystem::Path” object (#3209)

That’s all for today! Many thanks to all contributors who help to make Synfig better!

Edit BobSynfig:
Win64 Test Build (Link Expires 26 Oct 2023)
SynfigStudio-1.5.2-testing-2023-09-26-win64-57a06.zip

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@mohamed.Adhamc I used to make paths by pressing b (my shortcut) to pick the spline tool, then adding some points on the canvas, and pressing b again to finish the path while still having the tool active.
But in SynfigStudio-1.5.2-testing-2023-09-12-win64-7040b this is not working anymore.

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Hello, @Kai . This topic is not exactly for requests or doubts, but you can press Enter to finish the spline and keep using the tool.

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@rodolforg I know. I just wanted to find out if this is a bug or a change in behaviour of working of hotkeys. Because earlier it used to work, but now no more. :grin:

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I would love that you add test builds for macOS as well
Thanks :kissing_heart:

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I would like it too, but there are only the Win64 build avail in AppVeyor :confused:

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AppVeyor is supposed to build apps not only for Windows but macOS and Linux… where is the problem? is anybody needed to implement it? I’m just curious…